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Remove the PERVERSIONS made to Copyright...

awehr	Date: April 28, 2004 @ 5:19 AM Long ago, Copyright was invented to allow someone the right to say who is allowed to commercially produce material for the market. Now laws like the DMCA and NET act allow them to dictate how whole other sectors in the economy operate, and trample our individual property rights and freedom of expression. Then they coin the term "intellectual property", as if all copies of the work are theirs, and fair use no longer exists. I want to see the scope of copyright brought back to its roots, protecting the artists, but protecting the people as well. noncommercial person to person sharing has been an embedded value in our society for a long time, and now theyre trying to deny us the right to practice that value simply because it involves circuits and wires rather than tapes and magnets. I can think of no more petty a reason to rob people of their rights. =(
100thmonk	Date: April 28, 2004 @ 2:37 PM ones ability to actually own "intellectual property" is limited by ones ability to hire lawyers to protect it.' i.e. like most property you must be rich to protect your "right" to own it.
robin101	Date: May 3, 2004 @ 6:50 PM Not really...Most music attorneys will work on a percentage in order to handle your case.
kenlinder	Date: May 31, 2004 @ 10:06 AM That really depends where you are. Not all states in the US (much less all countries in the world) allow attorneys to work on a contingency or a pro bono basis. Back in 1993 when I was hit by a car in Oregon, I had to get an attourney to force the fellow insuarnce company to pay for physical therapy. I asked the lawyer about his fees and if he could work on anther other basis, and he said that in the State of Oregon it is illegal for an attorney to to work on a percentage, or even a contingency basis.
kenlinder	Date: May 31, 2004 @ 10:13 AM That really depends where you are. Not all states in the US (much less all countries in the world) allow attorneys to work on a contingency or a pro bono basis. Back in 1993 when I was hit by a car in Oregon, I had to get an attourney to force the fellow insuarnce company to pay for physical therapy. I asked the lawyer about his fees and if he could work on anther other basis, and he said that in the State of Oregon it is illegal for an attorney to to work on a percentage, or even a contingency basis. --- The whole point of the intellectual property battle in music, and loss of "fair use", and the industry resistance to large scale mp3 distribution and reasonable webcasting licences is simple. First, old established buisinesses tend to be beurocratic and resist change (and fear new stuff). The music industry as it is a very closed world. A few really large companies control the vast majority of the serious production and distribution, and they like their little unoffical cartel. Playing on an open playing field and talking to napster, mp3.com and live365.com would have ligimized the digital revolution in music distribution - and that would have disturbed their existing (and very profitable) business model. You have to remember that the only thing the industry actually rovides is representation (schmoozing) paying for prodution up front (investment) and access to the public (through marketing, promotion and distribution). If they let the musicians (who provice their product) have another way to get their music out that is actually effective, they will run away as fast as possible from their crappy standard contracts. After all, who really wants to sell a million CDs and end up owning money to their label, when they can make money instead. I think the industry is in desperate need of a serious union like the Screen Actors Guild was before the stikes in the early 80s. Don't think for a minute that corporations (which exist to make money) are going to play nice unless they are forced to.
RonLeddie	Date: June 4, 2004 @ 3:45 AM I had a letter sent to me a month ago from the register of copyrights, telling me that because of anthrax all material going to the copyright office is a radiated, and so my CD was wiped out.
robin101	Date: June 9, 2004 @ 11:55 AM Without a "Form PA" what other avenue exists to protect your musical "intellectual assets" asside from the court sytem? It has already been determined that "self-mailing" does NOT serve as protection (and never has).
TameasDust	Date: November 8, 2005 @ 3:30 PM

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