Mark Rasch, 2003-07-28
And other legal myths in the looming battle over peer-to-peer.
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"Copying is Theft"
2003-07-28
blacklight (2 replies)
blacklight (2 replies)
"Copying is Theft"
2003-07-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
What is clear about this issue is that the law is in error, not to mention the intention of the corporations involved. Law of commerce is supposed to aid society and follow *it's* predelections. In a functioning optimal capitalist system (so the theory goes - although learned people know that such...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-07-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
It always surprises me how on the other side of the big pond so much emphasis is laid on national (US) treaties.
Come folks there's also the rest of the world and the prevailing copyright treaty is the Berne Convention of which US is a signatory.
Without going into great lengths: international law...
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Come folks there's also the rest of the world and the prevailing copyright treaty is the Berne Convention of which US is a signatory.
Without going into great lengths: international law...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-08-01
Anonymous
Anonymous
In this case, national law would apply as the US has a term of protection in excess of what the Union agreed upon:
article 7, section 6
The countries of the Union may grant a term of protection in excess of those provided by the preceding paragraphs
http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/ber...
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article 7, section 6
The countries of the Union may grant a term of protection in excess of those provided by the preceding paragraphs
http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/ber...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-07-28
Kyle Monson (1 replies)
Kyle Monson (1 replies)
The free market is a tough thing to manipulate. Just ask the Recording Industry Association of America, which has gone to great lengths to avoid changing its business model and profit margins, but has failed miserably.
The industry's latest strategy is to attack college students who have music f...
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The industry's latest strategy is to attack college students who have music f...
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Re: "Copying is Theft ..."
2007-06-11
Michael
Michael
Actually, you can easily get a CD-burner for under the cost of 2 CDs. At the same time, in many areas you can also get high-speed internet for around the cost of two CDs. So it's cheaper than you mentioned.
Some record companies, however, such as Magnatune (www.magnatune.org) are adopting a new...
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Some record companies, however, such as Magnatune (www.magnatune.org) are adopting a new...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-07-28
Anonymous
Anonymous
Regardless of the how you feel about the copyright issue, this stuff in dangerous inside a trusted network environment. I've had to adjust our budgets and security policies to make sure we don't allow these tunnels to the work. If you ever run one of these programs and see the number of clients th...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-07-29
Anonymous
Anonymous
This can all be fixed with a little Congressional magic. All we need is to convince Congress to alter the duration of copyrighted and trademarked protection from the current length to "Life of the original author or creator plus 25 years." Chances are, after 25 years that copyright or trademark of a...
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Exposing the Happy Birthday story
2003-07-29
J. Byron
J. Byron
"So when you sing "Happy Birthday" to your mom, you don't owe a royalty to Mildred and Patty Smith Hill (they own the copyright), but when it is performed in a movie, you do see a credit roll."
Exposing the Happy Birthday story:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/5/112441/6280
http://www.ja...
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Exposing the Happy Birthday story:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/5/112441/6280
http://www.ja...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-07-29
Eric
Eric
I'm curious, for as long as I've can remember, IRC and newsgroups have offered up pirated software. 4 or so years ago when the MP3 scene took off IRC channels galor started offering these files up. This is not a new issue, it just appears to be a new issue for the RIAA. Novell and AutoDesk used t...
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"Does Copying is Theft ...Apply Internationally?"
2003-07-29
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
The Internet is International in scope, but the law discussed is US in origin. What is its application to individuals who are outside the US?
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"Does Copying is Theft ...Apply Internationally?"
2003-07-31
Mark Rasch (1 replies)
Mark Rasch (1 replies)
The Berne convention, and any codicils to it generally apply to international copyrights, and most nations have their own copyright laws modeled after or passed pursuant to the Berne convention....
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"Canadian Law: Does Copying is Theft ...Apply Internationally?"
2003-08-01
Doug in Canada
Canada has a scheme for permitted private copying of music. There is a levy paid on blank media that goes to the artists in proportion to sales (so if sales for your CD are 0.0083% of all Canadian sales, you get 0.0083% of the money in this pot). It's annoying for consumers in that they have to...
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Doug in Canada
Canada has a scheme for permitted private copying of music. There is a levy paid on blank media that goes to the artists in proportion to sales (so if sales for your CD are 0.0083% of all Canadian sales, you get 0.0083% of the money in this pot). It's annoying for consumers in that they have to...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-08-01
Anonymous
Anonymous
So, all this said, what if person A and person B both have the same CD and person A gives a MP3 version of it to person B because he/she doesn't have the abilty to convert CDA's to MP3's. How can the RIAA possibly investigate this before intruding on someones privacy. Personaly i think more ISP's n...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-08-03
Paddy
Paddy
The Recording industry doesn't seem to
understand the changes brought about by the
internet, CD burners and any other
gadget used for copying. They are missing the
opportunity of adapting to technological
changes and resorting to laws to keep their
monopoly. They are not the creaters they
are...
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understand the changes brought about by the
internet, CD burners and any other
gadget used for copying. They are missing the
opportunity of adapting to technological
changes and resorting to laws to keep their
monopoly. They are not the creaters they
are...
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Arent we forgetting something here
2003-08-03
Anonymous
Anonymous
Aren't we forgetting something here. Music is meant to be played. Radio stations and MTV do so all the time. Which I am allowed to copy..
Can someone explain to me the difference between A) copying a song from the MTV Clip on TV or Radio station and making it into an MP3 for private use or B) dow...
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Can someone explain to me the difference between A) copying a song from the MTV Clip on TV or Radio station and making it into an MP3 for private use or B) dow...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-08-04
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
It would appear that anyone could use turnabout to their advantage and get a court order to get all of the information about all of the employees, including chief executives, at any or all recording companies and all of the information that they have transmitted by telephone or email or fax or any o...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2003-08-04
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
The author who is wrong about almost every other legal fact in this screed, is correct in one particular: Copying is not theft. Duh. Technically, it's more akin to counterfeiting, where the reproduction of a work degrades the value of all the legitimate copies, whose chief value lies in their rarity...
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Re: "Copying is Theft ..."
2007-01-23
Nicholas King
Nicholas King
"Technically, it's more akin to counterfeiting, where the reproduction of a work degrades the value of all the legitimate copies, whose chief value lies in their rarity..."
Are you kidding me? So are you saying that if I have 10,000 copies of a single song on my hard drive, whether I legally own...
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Are you kidding me? So are you saying that if I have 10,000 copies of a single song on my hard drive, whether I legally own...
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"Copying is Theft ..."
2008-05-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
I don't understand. But I think piracy could have been fought by means of computer espionage, i.e., unsuspectingly monitoring data the computer receives. Usually, lawsuits are filed only if the "pirated" works are sold. If artists want to have piracy be dealt with, then I think that it should be the...
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