On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:22:17 -0400, Mayes, Joseph wrote > What occurs to me in all of this is just how far from the spirit of > the law, the letter of the law has gone.
Yes, but unfortunately we have to live with that. > The Humble rockers who > wrote the beautiful song are way out of it - We're now talking about > the enrichment of suits and bean-counters. Oh, c'mme on! That `humble rocker' got a shxxtload of money for selling those copyrights. And IIRC I an TV interview some close friend of John Lennon claimed that he was actually rather keen of being wealthy - I think "shopping maniac" was the term he used :-) > There seems to be a > misalignment of the universe when the guy delivering the ink > cartridge to write the contract makes more than the composer. So, us Robin Hoods of modern times commit copyright infringement to take revenge for those horrible crimes: take from the rich (media industry), give to the poor (composer/performer). Wait, we don't do the second, somehow the booty stays with us. Cheers, RalfD > There should be a way to protect the rights of artists - not middle-men. > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
