major marco
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said by SRFireside  :Copyright law is all about making sure artists are compensated for when you make money off of their work. No, it's not.
From the article:
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Stanford Law professor and copyright expert Lawrence Lessig writes, "Copyright has never accorded the copyright owner completecontrol over all possible uses of his work. Its purpose instead is to secure a limited monopoly over certain ways in which creative work is exploited, so as to give the authors (i.e., composers and performers) an incentive to create, and thus, in turn, to 'promote the Progress of Science'."
In fact, it's beyond argument today that the U.S. copyright laws recognize no absolute right in authors to prevent others from copying or exploiting their work. Rather, copyright laws grant authors limited rights in their works solely to an extent that Congress believes that creation and dissemination of their works are encouraged. In the long term, authors' intents and interests have always been secondary to that of the public.
The CRB, while masquerading as part of the U.S. Copyright office, is a wholly owned owned subsidiary of the RIAA purchased for the sole reason of strangling Internet radio. Terrestrial radio broadcasters pay no such fees. So when RIAA's Sim says they're fighting for the artits, the reality is that the RIAA is fighting to kill Internet radio. Period. Citing Copyright law is merely the means to that end.
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| said by major marco :said by SRFireside :Copyright law is all about making sure artists are compensated for when you make money off of their work. No, it's not. Citing an opinion from an article doesn't change the fact that the purpose of copyright law is exactly as I stated. Just because the RIAA is manipulating the law to circumvent its intent doesn't change the original intent.
said by major marco :The CRB, while masquerading as part of the U.S. Copyright office, is a wholly owned owned subsidiary of the RIAA purchased for the sole reason of strangling Internet radio. Terrestrial radio broadcasters pay no such fees. So when RIAA's Sim says they're fighting for the artits, the reality is that the RIAA is fighting to kill Internet radio. Period. Citing Copyright law is merely the means to that end. No arguments there. |
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Once apon a time, in a galaxy far far away....
In the long term, authors' intents and interests have always been secondary to that of the public.
Now it's been corrupted and co-opted by the large "Entertainment" Corporations. |
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