Cool! So now all I need to do is figure out who has god-given talent (as
opposed to atheistic talent or agnostic talent???) or who is "rich" and
I can take what I want!!! My brother is an airline pilot - makes way
more money than me. Has 5 cars, including a red '73 Chevy convertible.
Maybe I'll just "borrow" it for a while, when he's on a trip to Paris.
He doesn't need to know and he's rich, so it's my right! You can't drive
5 cars at the same time! Then there's my two multi-millionaire friends.
They're both self-made and very generous, but it never occurred to me
that because they're rich, I have a "right" to take some of their stuff
that I've determined they don't need. Awesome!
Marty K
Years ago the large Church I work for had a recording studio and a record label, so that
we could produce "religious" music and not have to deal with the secular
industry and the exorbitant prices they charged for use of their studios. Some artists
because quite successful in their careers, as they were quite good.
Later we bought a radio station and began playing the now wide selection of
Christian music, but at one point one of the agencies that polices rights
infringements approached our radio station and insisted we pay royalties to
these artists (meaning the agency) for the right to use the music. Some of
these artists got their start in our studios, and would never have gotten
anywhere had they not started there.
Our head Pastor was so disgusted, he banned any music from an artist who belonged to one of these
agencies. Offerings on the radio were a bit slim for awhile. Now I can see someone being upset if
another artist went around performing another artist's songs for money, because it was less money
that the original artist charged. But the very thought of having people pay royalties on what we
consider to be a "gift from God" namely the talent and the inspiration for the music
seems to be... well "quenching". The moneychangers in the temple comes to mind.
Bob
On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Roger Eller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
This whole thing seems laughable:
When I was 13 my Mum and Dad bought me a radio-cassette recorder, and
I merrily recorded all the songs on the radio that I liked, and recorded
quite a few songs from gramophone records that belonged to friends of mine
who could afford that sort of thing.
At no time (1975-6-7-8) did ANYBODY tell that I was breaking the law, or,
even, being "naughty".
I, later, bought half a dozen of the records I had previously taped, so
that I could pose to my "friends" with the record covers.
Presumably, all across Britain (at least) teenagers were doing this all the
time. How
odd that it never seemed an issue.
Rod Stewart still made millions, as did Kate Bush, Devo and Kraftwerk . . .
I CAN understand that copying music and subsequently making money out of it
is a bit infra dig.
What a load of codswallop!
That is a similar story to mine, and many other kids of the 70's. If the
music was something I truly loved, then I would buy the record, tape, CD,
etc., but if it was just "OK", a recording made from the radio was just
fine. Nowadays, everybody's an "artist", whether they can sing or not. It
is assumed, and even expected that people pay for noise. The market should
be driven by the quality of the work. If it's good, DMCA or no DMCA, the
artist will STILL become rich and famous.
˜Roger
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