Why this isn't seen as a simple marketing channel that s/b encouraged not taxed, is beyond me.
What these small business owners need to do is tell the BMI/ASCAP "sales people" that they'll pay the licensing fee, but only after BMI/ASCAP pays a promotion fee to them for giving their artists a wider audience. The promotion fee would just so happen to equal whatever amount BMI/ASCAP's licensing fee was.
So if there was an organization that went around asking people to pay for air that they have already breathed, you'd say there was no reason that should be illegal? That kind of thinking is what's wrong with our whole copyright system.
I generally consider myself to be fairly conservative politically, so I'm very surprised to find out that not wanting corporations to make our laws makes one "left wing." I guess I'll have to start watching Kieth Olberman now.
Mike, the title of your article which partly states, "Likely Duped The Art World", is dangerously libelous on the part of Tech Dirt.
If you think that is "dangerously libelous" then you better tell your buddy Thomas W. Wilson, Jr. to keep his mouth shut, unless he has some evidence to back up these claims posted here a few days ago:
David Grann, the drunkard, has violated the ethics of fair reporting... He is another subpar journalist looking for a book deal, rehashing old news, plagiarising and conniving... A backstabber, a liar and a poor example of journalistic responsibility. He has time and again hurt people and damaged their careers without remorse. What he has done borders on sociopathic behavior... Remember that "little" crime you committed back in college but got away with? Well, your fingerprints are on the wineglasses my friend. And you, Mr. Grann, are in a heap of trouble. Wait til you see what it's like to be on the bad side of the pen.
Not to mention that obvious threat at the end there. I think that's a lot more libelous than Mike pointing out that the three of you are using the same computer to attack Grann.
Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Non-Music,
Warner Bros./Elektra, Warner Bros./Hollywood, Warner Bros./Rhino,
Warner Classics, Warner Curb Hank, Warner Latina Non Music,
Warner Music, Warner Music Canada, Warner Music Latina,
Warner Music Latina/Peerless, Warner Nashville Non-Mus Video, Warner Off Roster,
Warner P&D, Warner Strategic Marketing, Warner/Reprise Black Adv,
Warner/Reprise Cntry Adv, Warner/Reprise Video
Most of which would comprise the Warner Music Group I do believe.
Hmmm. I read somewhere that the guy who owns the prints hired these experts himself and has yet to let others take a look at them. Now it smells fishy.
I'm assuming that you're actually weneedhelp and forgot to sign in and not just an AC. Glad you didn't mind my jab and took it in the spirit in which it was intended. Don't get me wrong, I was enjoying your indignation but as the saying goes, "Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded." Not that you are retarded, but you know what I mean. No sense getting worked up over nothing. Of course I rarely practice what I preach.
Thus why intelligent design is not science, it's religion, and that is fine, let's just keep it as religion.
Fine by me. My original point was to say that unlike ASCAP's flapping mouthpiece Williams, creationists are always willing to debate, which I infered from Karl's comment, in retrospect perhaps incorrectly, he was comparing creationists to Williams in that they duck debates and claim to be silenced. Now I think he was just refering to the way many claim discrimination when they don't get equal time in school ciriculum and that sort of thing.
I never intended to get into a debate myself because A) anytime religion is involved in the equation no one wins, and B) I'm not qualified to represent the creationist side of the debate even if I wanted to.
That would be like two dimensional beings trying to grasp a three dimensional world. While we as a species like to think we are the nadir of intelligence, we haven't begun to grasp even the inner workings of the universe, not to mention our limited understanding of time, let alone have the intelect to comprehend a supreme being who has always existed and always will.
...it's difficult not to be increasingly skeptical of the claims of these new negatives, even with all of the "scientific" evidence that has been mentioned by the team involved in the authentication.
I think one important diference in these two cases is that it's the "art experts" who are saying the negatives are Adams instead of the one lone con man. It's the opposite of the Pollock "work."
Also you say that Biro found "a" fingerprint on the supposed Pollock painting, meaning one. Now I haven't seen the documentary and don't know much about it, but isn't finding only one intact fingerprint a bit odd in and of itself?
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What these small business owners need to do is tell the BMI/ASCAP "sales people" that they'll pay the licensing fee, but only after BMI/ASCAP pays a promotion fee to them for giving their artists a wider audience. The promotion fee would just so happen to equal whatever amount BMI/ASCAP's licensing fee was.
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While later, Jefferson blah, blah, blah.
You suffer from BRS. Broken Record Syndrome.
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I think it would be more like banning musicians from looking at file sharing sites.
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Who knew?
*shudder*
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If you think that is "dangerously libelous" then you better tell your buddy Thomas W. Wilson, Jr. to keep his mouth shut, unless he has some evidence to back up these claims posted here a few days ago:
Not to mention that obvious threat at the end there. I think that's a lot more libelous than Mike pointing out that the three of you are using the same computer to attack Grann.
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From the Who We Are section of the RIAA's website:
Most of which would comprise the Warner Music Group I do believe.
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I love that expression. I need to find more ways to work it into everyday conversation.
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Doh! Yes I did.
Thus why intelligent design is not science, it's religion, and that is fine, let's just keep it as religion.
Fine by me. My original point was to say that unlike ASCAP's flapping mouthpiece Williams, creationists are always willing to debate, which I infered from Karl's comment, in retrospect perhaps incorrectly, he was comparing creationists to Williams in that they duck debates and claim to be silenced. Now I think he was just refering to the way many claim discrimination when they don't get equal time in school ciriculum and that sort of thing.
I never intended to get into a debate myself because A) anytime religion is involved in the equation no one wins, and B) I'm not qualified to represent the creationist side of the debate even if I wanted to.
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That would be like two dimensional beings trying to grasp a three dimensional world. While we as a species like to think we are the nadir of intelligence, we haven't begun to grasp even the inner workings of the universe, not to mention our limited understanding of time, let alone have the intelect to comprehend a supreme being who has always existed and always will.
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#butthurt
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I think one important diference in these two cases is that it's the "art experts" who are saying the negatives are Adams instead of the one lone con man. It's the opposite of the Pollock "work."
Also you say that Biro found "a" fingerprint on the supposed Pollock painting, meaning one. Now I haven't seen the documentary and don't know much about it, but isn't finding only one intact fingerprint a bit odd in and of itself?
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