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* Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 25 Dec 1999
| If you choose to believe that the laws as purchased by the recording
| industry from congress represent ethics, enjoy your world.
You obviously feel strongly about this, but are somewhat misinformed. Take
a look at the Berne agreements on international copyright law, which in the
US is known as the Copyright Act of 1976, and is the core of US copyright
law. They were not laid down by our founding fathers. They were not
purchased from the US congress.
| The recording industry will screw artists, consumers, and anyone else who
| stands in the way of Mr. Greenback, and will use their money to make the
| laws fit this purpose.
Oh, sure. You spend $15 at the local shop for an audio CD. The shop keeps
about $5 of that, the shop's distributor gets another $5. Of the
remainder, the artist gets $1.50; the remaining $3.50 goes to the record
company. The exact ratio is subject to the contract signed between artist
and label, but these values are fair approximations.
None of this has anything to do with copyright law. And it has not stopped
artists like Amie Mann from forming their own labels.
| Please think. Recording a friend's CD is unethical? Think about what
| unethical is. The law is not ethics, the law is not morals. Ask
| Muhummad Ali. Ask Martin Luther King, Jr.
I thought we were discussing a point of law, not ethics. But if you wish
to discuss ethics and morals, so be it. Do you really believe that it is
ethically and morally justified to STEAL the ARTIST'S $1.50 per cd sold
because you do not like scummy practices of his record label? Do you
really believe it is RIGHT to take from the artist what little he does get
from the work he has done? Is it FAIR that you and your friend get the
artist's work and he gets NOTHING?
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