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I'd like to suggest that, righteous indignation aside, all copy write laws will be coming into question soon. Ever since Rodin decided that he had the *right* to *design* a statue, have his students sculpt and build it, and himself keep all profits and rights, there has been an exaggerated acceptance of what deserves protection. Why people buy *official* prints of etchings or photographs [*#5 of 235*]I have never understood. The idea that the *artist* has only allowed 235 to be made- and shut the negative away, is about as bogus a notion as has been conceived. Surely, in the end, only lawyers and galleries profit. As an actor [ex] I've been busted many times for not paying royalties to dead playwrights, law firms and publishers that *bought the rights* to Shakespeare or Ionesco. How did they GET this *right*? Publishing is one thing. Hording and scalping is another. I don't care what happens to Napster. Clearly they are pirates and are getting rich encouraging an irreverent, anarchistic mentality [which they themselves don't have], but, the fact is, ever since photography, LAWYERS have devised methods to increase profits for middlemen that have NOTHING to do with the Creation [Nike or M. Jackson for Beatle songs, for instance]-- and nothing in my code of ethics tells me that I can not give my cakewalk discs to my drummer. Hearing people call that *theft* gets my goat. I sincerely doubt that they have thought it through any further than I have. Less, in fact. I can paint/draw/photograph as many copies of the Mona Lisa as I want and I will never have what DaVinci had. With digital music that has changed. I can have exactly what was created in the studio. Any attempt to change this fact [same goes with intellectual property rights for software] is bogus. They are bullshitting us. Once I buy Cakewalk it's mine. Once I play a new riff in public, it's public. Once someone combines oil colors together in a particular way, anyone is invited to try to duplicate it. In the past this was limited by imagination and talent. Photography and *Digital* has changed all that, but morality and reality has not changed. Ideas come into existence. They NEVER belonged to anyone. And I've BEEN sampled against my will, so don't even go there. I want to maximize my profit as much as anyone, but ideas *emerge*. Very few real artists think they *invented* their best stuff. Just lawyers and academics. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.