On 10/08/2010, Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> wrote: > > After reading all the posts on this topic, my personal view is this: > > Badru's experiment does not seem to infringe on copyright law in my > opinion. Afterall if all of us, setup our PCs to record these radio > broadcasts and then accessed them later, would all of us also be accused of > infringing on the IP rights of the performers who were featured on those > shows? > In the first place, those particular radios broadcast free of charge to > everyone. If there are any IP issues, those issues are between the radio > stations and the performers not between someone who provides an archive > service and the performers. > > Afterall the only difference here is the time period in which I listen to > the broadcast. In one case I am listening to it live and in another I am > listening to old stuff. Just like TVs do not pay again to do re-runs of a > series they already paid for. > > Noah. >
Recording the radio station for your own use is "fair use". Re-broadcasting it is not. It really is that simple. I know I am an outsider and you are all trying to back up Badru, but face it your position is not tenable. What he is doing is just plain wrong. You can use semantics such as "grey area" "archiving" "cloning" but at the end of the day, "he has taken something that doesnt belong to him without the permission of the owner". I have repeated the above endless times on this thread and nobody has been able to challenge that statement. anybody care to give it a go? -- WebERP Africa Ltd +447710427049 +256752963327 +255784602561 www.weberpafrica.com _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
