Re: Preaching to the Choir
Originally posted by School_girl
Ken yes I did.
Personally, If I by a shirt and don’t like it I can give it away. I paid for it and can do anything I feel with it.
Purchased is the key word, the law disagrees, As long as I am not selling it. Someone patented that design. I guess that’s the difference a copyright verses a Pat. Maybe we should tell the clothing industry to copyright their designs as intellectual property.
Than we could close all the thrift shops that support charities, after all I am sure the designer never intended for there clothing to be wore by more than the purchaser.
Sorry, but I believe that your analogy is not relevant to this matter. Let’s get back to recordings. When you purchase the item you, as the purchaser, have the right to dispose of the item in any manner you see fit (see section 109 on effect of transfer from purchase) you can give it away or sell it. You can make a backup copy for your own use. What you cannot do is duplicate for the purpose to sell, rent, lease, or anything that financially benefits you from that distribution.
I guess its like going to a concert if your crazy enough to pay 4 to 6 times what a CD cost. all the extra cost and hassels your only allowed to listen to it once you cant record it to hear it again even though you paid 4 times over the cost of the privelage of doing so.
Now you’re confusing things. Protections for live performances are different than buying a CD, you cannot record that live performance and reshow or broadcast it without the permission of those that hold copyright to the material. You can however view it personally and privately.
Cant you see this all makes perfect sense from the music industries perspective. No ?? I guess your not as high as most of them or it would make total sense. And for a couple grand You to can own/ lease your very own congressman Ken yes I did.
This was “clear as mud” and makes no sense at all.
Bottom line is that, within the guidelines of current law, I say you can share the music as long as your intent isn’t to obtain financial gain (see section 107). That the laws provide for the collection of royalties from the sale of equipment used in the process (which probably hasn’t been collected per section 1004).
It can be argued that the sharing of music by “consumers” can have a positive impact on the artists’ ability to generate funds (I heard it and decided to buy a concert ticket to see them “live – in concert”) and that the sharing is not a copyright infringement. The infringement would occur if and when a person receiving the shared music copies that into a medium and then uses it in a manner to make money. If there are “infringers”, then hammer them, but if it is a simple sharing of music for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research it is allowed and these people should be left alone and afforded the privacy and association protections guaranteed in this country.
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