MIKE :
"Again, the whole thing is a worthwhile read, but highlights a key point that we keep trying to make over and over again. So many keep focusing in on the whole "piracy!" aspect, and that's such a huge waste of time. Why focus on trying to stop something you don't like, when you can put your energy into creating a positive situation that you do like? Why focus on trying to punish people you don't like, when you have so many opportunities to happily engage with people you do like? "
----
MIKE :"Why focus on trying to stop something you don't
like,?"
ANS : MORAL PRINCIPLE... Mike . Pretty simple. Of you do not see that , well,, then Mike ,, you really are lost on this issue of Copyrights.
----
MIKE : " when you can put your energy into creating a positive situation that you do like?"
ANS: The positive situation that I do like want , and will work for , and fight for ,
Re: Konrath's proclamations that no amount of legislation, enforcement, or DRM will prevent human nature from making piracy the eventual victor are not wholly true. In many domains, piracy can be largely curbed through all these things. Large businesses d
US Lawmakers Target The Pirate Bay, Other Sites
A group of U.S. lawmakers targets The Pirate Bay and other sites as notorious for copyright infringement.
by Grant Gross
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 01:30 PM PDT
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and five other Web sites as "notorious" file-sharing sites.
In addition to The Pirate Bay of Sweden, the caucus put isoHunt of Canada, Mp3fiesta of Ukraine, Rapidshare of Germany and RMX4U.com of Luxembourg on its Web site list. Also included was large Chinese search engine Baidu.
The sites "provide access to countless unauthorized copies of copyrighted works made by U.S. creators," the caucus said in a press release Wednesday. "Some of these sites are among the most heavily visited Web sites worldwide."
This is the first year that the caucus, formed in 2003, has released a list of notorious sites. The caucus has been releasing an annual watch list of countries it considers weak on copyright protection since 2003.
The countries named Wednesday were China, Canada, Russia, Spain and Mexico, the same countries that made the caucus' list in 2009.
***"Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people -- ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and caucus member, said in a statement. "Those very ideas are increasingly at risk from piracy and counterfeiting abroad."****
Copyright infringement is not a victimless crime, as it is often portrayed, added Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican.
"Piracy denies individuals who have invested in the creation and production of these goods a return on their investment thus reducing the incentive to invest in innovative products and new creative works," he said in a statement. ******"The end result is the loss of billions of dollars in revenue for the U.S. each year and even greater losses to the U.S. economy in terms of reduced job growth and exports."*******
IsoHunt, a BitTorrent and peer-to-peer search engine, was sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in 2006, and earlier this year, a California court has proposed an injunction that would require the site to filter keyword searches.
"There are many non-infringing uses for BitTorrent technology and we hope you will be able to continue to use isoHunt for these," the site says in a post on its front page.
The Pirate Bay, often called TPB, has long resisted takedown notices sent by copyright holders. When the U.K. record label Gr8pop referenced the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act while asking The Pirate Bay to remove the music of one of its artists, a representative of the site said it follows Swedish law.
"DMCA is an American law," the site's representative wrote to Gr8pop in 2008. "Sweden is not a part of the United States. TPB has no connection to United States and hence does not follow U.S. law."
In April 2009, four operators of The Pirate Bay were found guilty in Swedish court of assisting copyright infringement. That case is on appeal, and the site continues operating.
The MPAA and the Recording Industry Association of America praised the congressional caucus.
"The release of this report casts a damning spotlight once again on several nations with lax copyright protections and websites that brazenly traffic in copyright theft," Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "I'm particularly struck by the ... decision to identify significant global Web sites that facilitate massive theft; theft that destroys jobs and cuts short the dreams of creators who find it more difficult to attract the capital they need to build their careers."
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
May 28, 2010
In Czar Peter’s Footsteps
By ELLEN BARRY
MOSCOW
THREE hundred years ago, after becoming king of the creaky behemoth that was Russia, Peter Romanov went west. Traveling under a pseudonym, the czar turned himself into an apprentice — studying European advances in shipbuilding, firefighting, dentistry, locksmithing and parliamentary procedure, among other cutting-edge technologies.
He returned to remake Russia. The poor rebelled at switching to the European calendar (as far as they knew, it was 7208) and aristocrats stood in livid silence as he hacked off their beards. But Peter insisted that it was in Russia’s interest to integrate westward, writing later that other nations “are working diligently to exclude us from the enlightened world.”
That line of argument is surfacing again in Moscow. Next month, in California, President Dmitri A. Medvedev will spend a day acquainting himself with Silicon Valley, the template for a new scientific city that the government is building outside Moscow. And increasingly — as sketched out in a Foreign Ministry working paper leaked to Russian Newsweek this month — policymakers are airing a new principle: Russia needs alliances with the West if it hopes to modernize.
The impulse is no surprise. In recent months, Moscow has acknowledged the Soviet massacre of Polish officers at Katyn 70 years ago; invited NATO troops to march in Red Square; and offered cautious support for sanctions on Iran. Alongside those gestures, Russia is pursuing economic goals like visa-free travel arrangements with the European Union and admission to the World Trade Organization.
More revealing is the reasoning behind it. The leaked Foreign Ministry draft suggests that foreign policy can be marshaled to help Russia attract investment, acquire new technology, update crumbling infrastructure and wean itself from dependence on resource extraction — all challenges that came into painful focus when the price of oil fell.
Absent is the language of NATO encirclement and external threat that appear in Russia’s official military doctrine, including an update Mr. Medvedev approved four months ago. Fyodor Lukyanov, editor in chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, dwelt in amazement on one strategic goal in the draft — “to form the image of Russia as a desirable partner and ally for European countries.” For Moscow, he said, that is revolutionary.
“If Russia, finally, in the spirit of the ‘diplomatic smile’ is able to overcome the inferiority complex which has gnawed at it since the collapse of the Soviet Union,” he wrote in an editorial, “maybe a new chapter is really beginning.”
On both sides of the ocean, skeptics have dismissed the leak as sweet nothings directed, above all, at the European Union and the White House. When Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked about it, he derided Russian Newsweek’s journalists as “masters of sensationalism”; still, he lent the draft some authority by calling it “absolutely routine work on the direct orders of the president.”
Indeed, Mr. Medvedev has argued that diplomacy could have a direct economic payoff, and has stressed his belief that Russia be converted from an energy supplier to a modern European economy.
It’s not clear how much agreement there is on that point, since oil and metals make up 80 percent of Russia’s total exports. Pavel Salin, an analyst at the Center for Political Conjuncture, a political consulting firm here, said pro-Western elites in the government can now agree with counterparts who are suspicious of the West on this much: “We will take technology from the West, but we will not adopt its political system.” For that, he added, “we need, at a minimum, nonconfrontational relations.”
But it is not clear, either, that diplomacy can produce the kind of innovation Russia wants. Russia has a vibrant consumer market, but investors also look at its corruption and its problems with the rule of law. And even Mr. Medvedev’s own flagship project — the high-tech village of Skolkovo that has inspired his trip to Silicon Valley — is fueled not by market forces but by state power.
“Competition produces innovation,” said Cliff Kupchan, a director at the Eurasia Group, a global risk-consulting firm based in New York. “I still don’t see a working appreciation of that.”
Still, Mr. Kupchan said, the Newsweek draft may represent a genuinely new strain of thinking. Russia has long looked west for technology to exploit its oil and gas resources, he said, but has rarely suggested that it needs outsiders to help fix its bad roads, low worker productivity and energy inefficiency.
That notion would have sounded outlandish here before the financial crisis underlined Russia’s dependence on Western capital — and before Barack Obama offered a reboot of Russian-American relations. “The ‘reset’ has provided political cover, so that it doesn’t look like Russia backing down, but like Russia facing a new challenge in becoming a modern country,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
In any case, it would be a mistake to confuse the reach for technology with a yearning for lasting closeness. Slavophiles still blame Peter the Great for forcing Western customs on Russia, but the foreign experts who flocked to Russia at his invitation were replaced, as soon as possible, by Russians they had trained. Historians tell us he distrusted Europe to the end of his life.
The czar said as much himself, according to a trusted minister. “Europe is necessary for us for a few decades,” he said. “Then we must turn our back to her.”
"Americans have long had an unswerving belief that technology will save us — it is the cavalry coming over the hill, just as we are about to lose the battle.
And yet, as Americans watched scientists struggle to plug the undersea well over the past month, it became apparent that our great belief in technology was perhaps misplaced.
“Americans have a lot of faith that over the long run technology will solve everything, a sense that somehow we’re going to find a way to fix it,” said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. He said Pew polling in 1999 — before the September 2001 terror attacks — found that 64 percent of Americans pessimistically believed that a terrorist attack on the United States probably or definitely would happen. But they were naïvely optimistic about the fruits of technology: 81 percent said there would be a cure for cancer, 76 percent said we would put men on Mars. "
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
NYIRG,,uurrgh
NYPIRG .
http://www.nypirg.org/
==================
first sis and steve earle , are pissed at me ,,
now my NYPIRG buddies.
Re: Re: Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
I think in Politicla theory , I got B +.
I am more of a nuts and bolts activist, than a big time theirost.
( read Robert Dahl if you want to know that stuff.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Dahl
-----
I worked a 15 year career ( 1982-95 ) with GreenPeace , NYIRG ( where some kid named Barack was my co-worker in 1986. I hear he is doing well now.,) ,,,
plus I worked for several political candidates , and did some staff Press work for the 1992 DEM party convention.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It seems to me that piracy has a negative impact on some individuals but overall has no negative impact on the economy, and may in fact actually have a net positive effect on the overall economyNow, your not getting anywhere with s
"Now, your not getting anywhere with slavery or other such arguments, so you can pretty much drop those. They're invalid and frankly, juvenile"
Sorry . Been used in classes and papers by not only me ,, but many,
It is a standard political theory argument.
=================
Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
Karl ,, take a Formal College Course in civil rights & copyright law.
Get back to me with your Grade.
Till then ,, By again
-----------------------
I am going back to the Mets and the Brewers.
Mets up , 4-2 ,, top of sixth.
where my ciggies
============
Enjoy the weekend,, but remember to remember , all those who gave there lives
to protect this nation and all it's constitutional rights.
Re: Re: Considering the exclusive right to invention as given not of natural right, but for the benefit of society(...) - Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson
No Karl.
This really lame comment by you. Shows your shallowness of thought.
-------
I disagree with T.J. on the root reasons for copyright.
We see eye to eye on its "institution" & "reasons for" into law and the constitution.
"Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people -- ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and caucus member, said in a statement.
"Those very ideas are increasingly at risk from piracy and counterfeiting abroad."
Copyright infringement is not a victimless crime, as it is often portrayed, added Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican.
"Piracy denies individuals who have invested in the creation and production of these goods a return on their investment thus reducing the incentive to invest in innovative products and new creative works," he said in a statement.
"The end result is the loss of billions of dollars in revenue for the U.S. each year and even greater losses to the U.S. economy in terms of reduced job growth and exports."
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"Again, the whole thing is a worthwhile read, but highlights a key point that we keep trying to make over and over again. So many keep focusing in on the whole "piracy!" aspect, and that's such a huge waste of time. Why focus on trying to stop something you don't like, when you can put your energy into creating a positive situation that you do like? Why focus on trying to punish people you don't like, when you have so many opportunities to happily engage with people you do like? "
----
MIKE :"Why focus on trying to stop something you don't
like,?"
ANS : MORAL PRINCIPLE... Mike . Pretty simple. Of you do not see that , well,, then Mike ,, you really are lost on this issue of Copyrights.
----
MIKE : " when you can put your energy into creating a positive situation that you do like?"
ANS: The positive situation that I do like want , and will work for , and fight for ,
, and yes,, even die for:
is a world w/o Piracy.
==========================================
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Re: Konrath's proclamations that no amount of legislation, enforcement, or DRM will prevent human nature from making piracy the eventual victor are not wholly true. In many domains, piracy can be largely curbed through all these things. Large businesses d
A group of U.S. lawmakers targets The Pirate Bay and other sites as notorious for copyright infringement.
by Grant Gross
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 01:30 PM PDT
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a group of U.S. lawmakers concerned with copyright infringement, has listed The Pirate Bay and five other Web sites as "notorious" file-sharing sites.
In addition to The Pirate Bay of Sweden, the caucus put isoHunt of Canada, Mp3fiesta of Ukraine, Rapidshare of Germany and RMX4U.com of Luxembourg on its Web site list. Also included was large Chinese search engine Baidu.
The sites "provide access to countless unauthorized copies of copyrighted works made by U.S. creators," the caucus said in a press release Wednesday. "Some of these sites are among the most heavily visited Web sites worldwide."
This is the first year that the caucus, formed in 2003, has released a list of notorious sites. The caucus has been releasing an annual watch list of countries it considers weak on copyright protection since 2003.
The countries named Wednesday were China, Canada, Russia, Spain and Mexico, the same countries that made the caucus' list in 2009.
***"Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people -- ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and caucus member, said in a statement. "Those very ideas are increasingly at risk from piracy and counterfeiting abroad."****
Copyright infringement is not a victimless crime, as it is often portrayed, added Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican.
"Piracy denies individuals who have invested in the creation and production of these goods a return on their investment thus reducing the incentive to invest in innovative products and new creative works," he said in a statement. ******"The end result is the loss of billions of dollars in revenue for the U.S. each year and even greater losses to the U.S. economy in terms of reduced job growth and exports."*******
IsoHunt, a BitTorrent and peer-to-peer search engine, was sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in 2006, and earlier this year, a California court has proposed an injunction that would require the site to filter keyword searches.
"There are many non-infringing uses for BitTorrent technology and we hope you will be able to continue to use isoHunt for these," the site says in a post on its front page.
The Pirate Bay, often called TPB, has long resisted takedown notices sent by copyright holders. When the U.K. record label Gr8pop referenced the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act while asking The Pirate Bay to remove the music of one of its artists, a representative of the site said it follows Swedish law.
"DMCA is an American law," the site's representative wrote to Gr8pop in 2008. "Sweden is not a part of the United States. TPB has no connection to United States and hence does not follow U.S. law."
In April 2009, four operators of The Pirate Bay were found guilty in Swedish court of assisting copyright infringement. That case is on appeal, and the site continues operating.
The MPAA and the Recording Industry Association of America praised the congressional caucus.
"The release of this report casts a damning spotlight once again on several nations with lax copyright protections and websites that brazenly traffic in copyright theft," Mitch Bainwol, the RIAA's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "I'm particularly struck by the ... decision to identify significant global Web sites that facilitate massive theft; theft that destroys jobs and cuts short the dreams of creators who find it more difficult to attract the capital they need to build their careers."
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,196692/printable.html
CoPYRIGHT 1998-2010, PCWorld Communications, Inc.
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On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
Re: Re: "In Czar Peter�s Footsteps" ,, very interesting
Citations provided.
( either way , its Mike's problem now ! ,,
and just a guess , but I think Mike would say :
"NY TIMES ,, please sirs ,,
SUE ME !!")
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
I'm a musician which means I don't have to follow copyright laws because we're exempt from the law.
===========
ANS : No . My point here is that Musicians usually do not sue other good faith-ed musicians.
**Artist CONTROL RIGHTS ,, as to when & how to enforce infringements on their Art** is the point.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
You're still wrong."
Hi Mike !!!
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"In Czar Peter’s Footsteps" ,, very interesting
In Czar Peter’s Footsteps
By ELLEN BARRY
MOSCOW
THREE hundred years ago, after becoming king of the creaky behemoth that was Russia, Peter Romanov went west. Traveling under a pseudonym, the czar turned himself into an apprentice — studying European advances in shipbuilding, firefighting, dentistry, locksmithing and parliamentary procedure, among other cutting-edge technologies.
He returned to remake Russia. The poor rebelled at switching to the European calendar (as far as they knew, it was 7208) and aristocrats stood in livid silence as he hacked off their beards. But Peter insisted that it was in Russia’s interest to integrate westward, writing later that other nations “are working diligently to exclude us from the enlightened world.”
That line of argument is surfacing again in Moscow. Next month, in California, President Dmitri A. Medvedev will spend a day acquainting himself with Silicon Valley, the template for a new scientific city that the government is building outside Moscow. And increasingly — as sketched out in a Foreign Ministry working paper leaked to Russian Newsweek this month — policymakers are airing a new principle: Russia needs alliances with the West if it hopes to modernize.
The impulse is no surprise. In recent months, Moscow has acknowledged the Soviet massacre of Polish officers at Katyn 70 years ago; invited NATO troops to march in Red Square; and offered cautious support for sanctions on Iran. Alongside those gestures, Russia is pursuing economic goals like visa-free travel arrangements with the European Union and admission to the World Trade Organization.
More revealing is the reasoning behind it. The leaked Foreign Ministry draft suggests that foreign policy can be marshaled to help Russia attract investment, acquire new technology, update crumbling infrastructure and wean itself from dependence on resource extraction — all challenges that came into painful focus when the price of oil fell.
Absent is the language of NATO encirclement and external threat that appear in Russia’s official military doctrine, including an update Mr. Medvedev approved four months ago. Fyodor Lukyanov, editor in chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, dwelt in amazement on one strategic goal in the draft — “to form the image of Russia as a desirable partner and ally for European countries.” For Moscow, he said, that is revolutionary.
“If Russia, finally, in the spirit of the ‘diplomatic smile’ is able to overcome the inferiority complex which has gnawed at it since the collapse of the Soviet Union,” he wrote in an editorial, “maybe a new chapter is really beginning.”
On both sides of the ocean, skeptics have dismissed the leak as sweet nothings directed, above all, at the European Union and the White House. When Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked about it, he derided Russian Newsweek’s journalists as “masters of sensationalism”; still, he lent the draft some authority by calling it “absolutely routine work on the direct orders of the president.”
Indeed, Mr. Medvedev has argued that diplomacy could have a direct economic payoff, and has stressed his belief that Russia be converted from an energy supplier to a modern European economy.
It’s not clear how much agreement there is on that point, since oil and metals make up 80 percent of Russia’s total exports. Pavel Salin, an analyst at the Center for Political Conjuncture, a political consulting firm here, said pro-Western elites in the government can now agree with counterparts who are suspicious of the West on this much: “We will take technology from the West, but we will not adopt its political system.” For that, he added, “we need, at a minimum, nonconfrontational relations.”
But it is not clear, either, that diplomacy can produce the kind of innovation Russia wants. Russia has a vibrant consumer market, but investors also look at its corruption and its problems with the rule of law. And even Mr. Medvedev’s own flagship project — the high-tech village of Skolkovo that has inspired his trip to Silicon Valley — is fueled not by market forces but by state power.
“Competition produces innovation,” said Cliff Kupchan, a director at the Eurasia Group, a global risk-consulting firm based in New York. “I still don’t see a working appreciation of that.”
Still, Mr. Kupchan said, the Newsweek draft may represent a genuinely new strain of thinking. Russia has long looked west for technology to exploit its oil and gas resources, he said, but has rarely suggested that it needs outsiders to help fix its bad roads, low worker productivity and energy inefficiency.
That notion would have sounded outlandish here before the financial crisis underlined Russia’s dependence on Western capital — and before Barack Obama offered a reboot of Russian-American relations. “The ‘reset’ has provided political cover, so that it doesn’t look like Russia backing down, but like Russia facing a new challenge in becoming a modern country,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
In any case, it would be a mistake to confuse the reach for technology with a yearning for lasting closeness. Slavophiles still blame Peter the Great for forcing Western customs on Russia, but the foreign experts who flocked to Russia at his invitation were replaced, as soon as possible, by Russians they had trained. Historians tell us he distrusted Europe to the end of his life.
The czar said as much himself, according to a trusted minister. “Europe is necessary for us for a few decades,” he said. “Then we must turn our back to her.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/weekinreview/30BARRY.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson 8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fweekinreview%2Findex.jsonp
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
"Americans have long had an unswerving belief that technology will save us — it is the cavalry coming over the hill, just as we are about to lose the battle.
And yet, as Americans watched scientists struggle to plug the undersea well over the past month, it became apparent that our great belief in technology was perhaps misplaced.
“Americans have a lot of faith that over the long run technology will solve everything, a sense that somehow we’re going to find a way to fix it,” said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. He said Pew polling in 1999 — before the September 2001 terror attacks — found that 64 percent of Americans pessimistically believed that a terrorist attack on the United States probably or definitely would happen. But they were naïvely optimistic about the fruits of technology: 81 percent said there would be a cure for cancer, 76 percent said we would put men on Mars. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/weekinreview/30rosenthal.html?hp
"Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill"
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: May 28, 2010
=================================
Where's my tape decK ?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
NYPIRG .
http://www.nypirg.org/
==================
first sis and steve earle , are pissed at me ,,
now my NYPIRG buddies.
Good Grief!
Go Mets
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Re: Re: Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
I am more of a nuts and bolts activist, than a big time theirost.
( read Robert Dahl if you want to know that stuff.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Dahl
-----
I worked a 15 year career ( 1982-95 ) with GreenPeace , NYIRG ( where some kid named Barack was my co-worker in 1986. I hear he is doing well now.,) ,,,
plus I worked for several political candidates , and did some staff Press work for the 1992 DEM party convention.
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
Re: Re: Re: The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely... 1967 [Vinyl] [FLAC] HMV
Only for Artists constol -- like all artists are /
They are also starving for our Love,, to heal the world .
Love ,, love ,, love ,, bum -da- bum , bum-da-bum ,,,,,,,,,,
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It seems to me that piracy has a negative impact on some individuals but overall has no negative impact on the economy, and may in fact actually have a net positive effect on the overall economyNow, your not getting anywhere with s
Sorry . Been used in classes and papers by not only me ,, but many,
It is a standard political theory argument.
=================
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
The era of the shiny plastic disc is over. Deal with it.
(nano tech ) mini--analog- music -players
MAMuPs
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyright and patents today are immoral, unbalanced, unfair and a threat to the health of society.
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Re: Re: The primary goal of copyright is not to reward authors, but "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." - Justice O'Connor, from the majority opinion in Feist v. Rural
Get back to me with your Grade.
Till then ,, By again
-----------------------
I am going back to the Mets and the Brewers.
Mets up , 4-2 ,, top of sixth.
where my ciggies
============
Enjoy the weekend,, but remember to remember , all those who gave there lives
to protect this nation and all it's constitutional rights.
======================================
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
Re: Re: Considering the exclusive right to invention as given not of natural right, but for the benefit of society(...) - Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson
This really lame comment by you. Shows your shallowness of thought.
-------
I disagree with T.J. on the root reasons for copyright.
We see eye to eye on its "institution" & "reasons for" into law and the constitution.
On the post: ABA Journal Highlights How The Music Industry Is Thriving And How Copyright Might Not Be That Important
It's a good thing copyright doesn't last 1000 years.
Not yet .
But I thing the rights should revert the the Artists Familes, for all time, after the Artist dies.
Even if the Artist sold the rights off during their lifetime
I admit it is a long shot -- a fat chance .
But it is legally possible.
But I know Mike and all techdirt posters , will take up that good cause one day soon.
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Re: The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely... 1967 [Vinyl] [FLAC] HMV
"Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people -- ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and caucus member, said in a statement.
"Those very ideas are increasingly at risk from piracy and counterfeiting abroad."
Copyright infringement is not a victimless crime, as it is often portrayed, added Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican.
"Piracy denies individuals who have invested in the creation and production of these goods a return on their investment thus reducing the incentive to invest in innovative products and new creative works," he said in a statement.
"The end result is the loss of billions of dollars in revenue for the U.S. each year and even greater losses to the U.S. economy in terms of reduced job growth and exports."
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196692/us_lawmakers_target_the_pirate_bay_other_sites.ht ml
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I LOVE DEMOCRACY.
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The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely... 1967 [Vinyl] [FLAC] HMV
Be i will then sent a check to Paul and Ringo , and Yoko , and Oliva, of whatever is due .
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US Lawmakers Target The Pirate Bay, Other Sites
by Grant Gross, IDG News
May 19, 2010 4:30 pm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196692/us_lawmakers_target_the_pirate_bay_other_sites.html
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Re: Re: Re: Re:Radio changed that, it allowed the labels to promote their music AT NO COST.
BEST Oldies top 40 music 1950- today .
Great D.J.s
the great DJ , Cousin Brucie of CBS-FM ,, once photographed me performing in Washington Square.
Gave a few bucks into the ol' guitar case too.
I was playing Neil Young's "Ohio."
( I owe Neil a quarter. Please sue me , Neil, Pleasssssse.)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyright and patents today are immoral, unbalanced, unfair and a threat to the health of society.
(Unless it's part of "musicians culture," says you.)
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ANS : YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
game over.
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