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28-07-04, 11:13 PM | #21 | |
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I should have qualified my statement to refer to Canada and the US more specifically, as other countries have different views. The registration of the copyright only serves as a tool to facilitate litigation. The presence of a copyright notice is pretty much useless legally speaking. ©Myself, 2004 - does that mean anything? Nope.
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29-07-04, 12:48 AM | #22 | |
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It's just that you were dispelling myths, and seeing copyrights everywhere... |
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29-07-04, 09:05 AM | #23 | |
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I'm not seeing copyrights everywhere, but I'll have to assume that if I didn't create that nice artform I so covet, and it cannot be said to exist from times immemorial and there's no evidence of it having been donated to the public domain, then it's a fair assumption it has an intrinsic copyright protection and I cannot just make it mine. The debate and big hullballoo is always about music downloads, in particular current hits, typically not involving classical music recordings. I don't think anybody has ever complained about B-sides or real flops being traded P2P Not much on the classical note either, most likely. Personally I don't do much P2P downloading, not to say not at all. I may want to hear something and decide if it's even worth my trouble first. If I want it badly enough, I may buy the orginal, as I'm not a fan of mp3 players or even pc playlists - I like to have a cd in my hands, complete with the cd case, the cover, the tray insert and all of that. I guess I'm very old-fashioned that way I do most of my "legal" downloading off of sites like www.acidplanet.com, where the artists post their music (which is copyrighted still) but give permission for it to be downloaded free of charge for personal use. Of course they are no big stars - yet some are excellent. It allows me to hear stuff other than what's on the radio all the time.
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