On Sunday 30 December 2007 19:38:57 Leigh Meyers wrote: > I dunno... Maybe because musicians need to eat?
There was music, some of it quite good, long before there was IP. One might mention the Bach family. I wish somebody would write a good critical history of copyrights and patents, all the way into the Big-Brotherish world of "intellectual property" (what a concept!) that we live in nowadays. The justification has always been that the musician, writer, inventor etc. need to eat, but surely the real beneficiary, except in quite rare cases, has been the publisher?
