Hi everyone
What has happened to permitting "fair use" of copyright materials? Have
governments and rights-holders, especially publishers, lost the sight of the
spirit of the DAT Pact and, the Betamax decision and other copyright
decisions to allow home recording for purposes such as archiving, transfer
to another media for use in equipment capable of playing that media;
recording broadcasts for use at a later time or in a different location; and
making custom-built recordings of songs.
Often it is the publisher who is obsessed about copyright more than the
artist. Artists who go for "burden-free" distribution such as MP3 have had a
fair bit of grief from their publishers because the publisher loses control
of the work.
Publishers who object to technologies like digital radio, Internet radio and
Internet-based music distribution; utilise technical methods to prevent
recordings from being copied at all and take action against retailers
importing music themselvss are really trying to control how each copy of
music is distributed. Some publishers even want to take action against the
sale of second-hand music so they still have control over each copy of
music.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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