On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:01, Res wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > I'd also like to add another point... People who want MP3 > > support, presumeably are planning on using such support to play > > MP3 content which they legally own. That would mean that they > > have the original music or content on CDROM or some other medium. > > Why dopes everyone assume because its 'MP3' that its music or copyright > material? Sure most of it is, but _NOT_ all of it.
> Just one example is we have several community associations that record > meetings and convert to MP3 for those that cant make it. > Oh no oh dear, I guess we'll be sued soon from the copyrite > cops, what next, we'll get sued by TDK for using there cassette tapes? > > actually those meeting recordings are still under copyright...if you want to get technical...unless there is a license that comes with the meeting recording that says they are in the public domain. If you really wanted to get technical, even those recordings of the meetings can not be redistributed "legally" without the express consent of the the people who made those recordings...they just probably don't care enough to ever pursue a copyright violation if someone made a copy without express permission...but if they did care, they could exercise the rights under copyright to prosecute anyone copying and redistribution the meeting recordings without permission. But who wants to get technical, thats dull. Let's just brush the whole basic rules of how copyrights work, in the USA at least, which is what matters to Red Hat since they are a US company. But i think the point mharris was trying to make was if you have access to the ORIGINAL works whether it be a CD or the actually live recording...you can choose to encode into ogg instead of mp3. I would suggest that you encourage those several community organizations to start encoding into ogg format as well as mp3, since oggs are an open technology and mp3s are not...or if yer sound quality purist try flac. -jef
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