As a musician sometimes the bar pays the ASCAP fees sometimes they don't but at least there is a way to compensate the song copyright owner when a band plays a cover song on stage at a bar. I wonder if some sort of ASCAP for out of print manuals could work....this way owners could register their manuals and make it public where to send fees AND the fees would be low enough that people would not mind paying them. This puts some responsibility on the manual owner to make their claim I suppose. Then you have international vs. domestic copyright, etc.
This thread comes up every so often, nothing changes though. b On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Evan Koblentz <e...@snarc.net> wrote: > >>> That's called "stealing". >> >> >> The person I had to buy the CD from off of ebay wasn't authorized to sell >> it. > > > That's a cop-out. "Someone else did it first" doesn't change the law. > > >> and freed it > > > "Freed" is a euphemism. > > I'm not saying you should be in federal lock-up with Jared from Subway. :) > But don't pretend to not understand that what you did is illegal. -- Bill vintagecomputer.net
