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Termyn8or -> RE: The Music-Copyright Enforcers (8/10/2010 3:47:10 PM)
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Hunky, about twenty years ago I figured out a modification for the GTE Sylvania E4X series TV chassis. All the new ICs were defective, but I figured out a workaround which actually worked. Should I still get paid ? I looked at a print, figured it out and once done, we made some money. In that case I told very few other techs about it and we made money. But what if someone wanted to do it today ? It's like my house analogy. But I would not assert that musicians do not work. Come on over sometimes when I decide to practice. You'll hear as much cussing as I search for the right chord as you would if I were bangung up my knuckles working on a car. If you say that musicians don't do any real work, then the people who send you a check every month are also doing no real work. But the point is, should I still be getting paid for something I did twenty years ago ?
Mm, at this point I will assert that music is supposed to be play, not work. Society has changed that and maybe you didn't understand that I was talking a very long time ago. But your rebuttal to my point about public domain is more forward than that issue. Explain what happened to public domain. What determines the content of public domain ? That the composer is dead ? Not so, someone owns the rights to the works of the Beatles, and surely a good portion of that was written by John Lennon. So it's not death, so what is it ? I know it has changed in the last decade or so, but I think it used to be like seven or ten years and then a song was in public domain. Why did this change ? Standard answer.
When I play 100 Proof Aged In Soul - Everthing Good Is Bad, who gets the royalties ? The band broke up in the 1970s. I assert that the suits are getting the money and not paying shit to anyone involved with creating or performing that song.
I also agree with those posters who say music can be an annoyance, a distraction. Usually when I play music I play it loud for two reasons. One I want to hear every nuance of the piece. When I finally got really good speaker I was impress, and even moreso by the high quality of some older music. What's more I don't want people talking, like some people are with movies. SHADDAP ! Dammit. It's been many years since I had "background" music. We have discussions here, and when they stop, that's the time for music. I'll spin a couple, and then it is back to no sound. I don't turn it down I turn it off. Well the music, my amp runs 24/7. Actually there is some background music here at times, but I don't spin it. When I want to hear something I do not want to hear anything else. So I am different, shoot me. (I'll loan you a gun)
Nonetheless, what happened to public domain ? And are they paying Betthoven's heirs from every concert that uses his work ? I don't think so.
But the way I use music differently is not pertinent to the copyright issue. If you assert that public domain is like it was, perhaps intended to be, then at least half of the songs on my HD are perfectly legal. If not, what happened to public domain ? And what of covers ? If a group of heavy metalists today decide to do a song written fifty years ago and metallize it, who should they be paying ? The author is long dead, or is there now a certain number of years involved ?
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