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> Ennnh! It remains to be seen just what quantities of business have ever > been actually lost, beyond the vague but threatening-sounding percentage > figures the recording business continues to pull out of their collective > backsides. > Indeed. I read a report from a recent-ish study that had some interesting conclusions: people who d/l movies and albums are significantly more likely to buy cds and dvds and attend movie screenings and concerts than those who don't d/l... are these really the people the RIAA want to antagonize? My two-cents on the "right" to sample... I sort of see it both ways. Copyrights exist to ensure that creators reap the benefits of their efforts and that is good. However, the initial intent of copyright laws was to give creators the competitive edge for a couple of years (I forget exactly how many originally, was it 7?) before the content ended up in the public domain. What we have now, is a bit of perversion of that original intent where copyrights extend beyond the life of the original creator... The aime of many rights holders is to keep the works indefinitely out of the public domain by introducing slight variations, re-issues and so on to renew the copyright to their benefit, but to the detriment of everyone else. To see how absurd this is, imagine if patents worked the same way and never ended up in the public sphere... (not tha patent laws are perfect) If, like me, you believe there is no creatio ex nihilo, being deprived of building on what has come before us can only lead to cultural stagnation. Sylvain On 8/27/09, Stephen Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net> wrote: > From: "tim echols" <eekamouse67@yahoo.com> > > yes, the illegal download and filesharing have made it so that the >actual > recorded work can hardly pull in the amount of money for the artist that >it > once did. > > > > That's certainly the party line excuse the RIAA and its ilk have been >using > to justify their lack of income: no, not the demise of retail sales, not >the > adherence to the culturally-bankrupt concept of "star making" (whether >the > "star" has talent or not), not the absence of new (ie non-derivative) > songwriters, not the predatory nature of their own business practices, >no! > It wasn't them, it's those damned pirates! And while they're at it, go >for > the easy targets at home that use a file-sharing program to download 10 >or > 20 songs. > > Ennnh! It remains to be seen just what quantities of business have ever > been actually lost, beyond the vague but threatening-sounding percentage > figures the recording business continues to pull out of their collective > backsides. > > > Stephen Goodman > * > http://www.vimeo.com/spgoodman > http://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Goodman > >