ies, Feddies,
and Con-Artists
PressInfo # 189
September 18, 2003
By
Francis A. Boyle , TFF Associate
Originally posted on the 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list'
It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of 11
September 200
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Obviously, the end of copyright may well mean a substantial
reduction in the proceeds from big movies, but it will hardly mean
a total end to those proceeds (the powerpuff girl movie is one big
toy advertisment)
How big an effect will a reduction in money mean?
If you go back thirty years
At 4:49 PM -0400 on 7/8/02, Mark Burns wrote:
> Hopefully this 'what-if' world has anti-trust deregulation going hand in
> hand with the removal of copyright protection.
Nah. All we need is encryption and a cash-settled digital market. Studios
would do just fine, maybe better.
Cheers,
RAH
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>At 10:20 PM 7/8/2002 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
>But right now copies of recent release movies (post screen release,
but pre DVD/VHS relase) are not generally available in high quality
format, suitable for projecting.
As you note later, most recent releases to the Net are often lower quality 'cams'
Tim May:
> People would go to theaters to see the film in all of its glory, true.
>
> But the theaters would no longer, in your scenario, have to fork over
> money to the studios.
>
> (Or that theaters would face special regulation by government, etc.)
Hopefully this 'what-if' world has anti-trus
But right now copies of recent release movies (post screen release,
but pre DVD/VHS relase) are not generally available in high quality
format, suitable for projecting.
So one way that the movie distribution industry could plausibly
continue to make money would be rather than the movie theatre be
There's a flaw in this argument:
On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 11:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Let us imagine that all efforts to enforce copyright on the
> internet were abandoned, and that everyone in the world has a fat
> pipe capable of downloading movies.
>
> First, most people who want
> Marcel Popescu[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Regarding our recent thread on copyrights and artists who won't create
> anymore if they're not getting paid, has anyone ever played with the
> WinAmp
> plug-ins? Some of them are amazingly beautiful.
>
> Now, are th
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On 8 Jul 2002 at 11:25, Trei, Peter wrote:
> Some forms of creation require little in the way of up-front
> investment. Others do. Consider movies. While some of the people
> involved get to do creative work that they love, many don't, and
> they all have to make a living somehow. Would t
Regarding our recent thread on copyrights and artists who won't create
anymore if they're not getting paid, has anyone ever played with the WinAmp
plug-ins? Some of them are amazingly beautiful.
Now, are they upset that people copy them? On the contrary - some of them
are accused o
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