On 9 Aug, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Badru Ntege (MPP) wrote:
If you leave in Uganda which I hope you do and watch local TV or
listen to
local radio stations then you are also contributing to the "immoral
act of
stealing" since it is on record that none of the stations actually
payout to
the artist.
I'd imagine if there was a charge (I don't see any charge now) then
that would be for disk space, bandwidth, etc costs rather than a
charge for the content.
For most public broadcasts if you don't re-brand or remove the
commercials from them, then you are free to
archive and sometimes re-transmit at a later date/time. You get in
trouble if you re-brand the show, or archive paid for content and
different countries may define this further.
FYI the current equivalent for the service Badru offers in UG. is
heading off to Steadman and paying for VHS tapes of the broadcasts.
You'd be surprised what major advertisers pay for this service. This
business model is pretty much accepted if not promoted by media
houses, broadcasters and advertisers alike.
As far as software goes, I don't think this is the same thing. Many
local companies will charge for a Linux install, as well as
customising/branding otherwise opensource products. My reading of GPL
is as long as said local company hands over the source to the client,
then it's totally legal. This isn't the same as creating some software
based on some open source stuff, and then refusing to release the code
to whatever extent the open source license demands.
--
patrick
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