I don't normally contribute to the "intellectual property" vrs "freedom" threads ... but maybe it is time :) My simple minded beliefs includes that a "creator" has certain rights to his creation. If he/she wants to share (freely) with the rest of the world, great. If they think that only people who pay a certain sum of money can share it, that's their right as well. And if the creator wants to assign these rights to someone else (ie. the RIAA, or whatever) ... well, that's fine as well. After all, it's their song/artwork to do with as they wish. Now, it gets more complicated if someone (like me) has purchased something which has "pay for me" rights attached. Again, I have the freedom to NOT buy it, listen to it, look at it, etc. But if I do buy it, do I have the right to give copies away to anyone? Probably not. I think there is an implicit (if not explicit) contract when I make the purchase that I not do that. Of course this gets complicated if the artist is long dead, etc. A moral question might be: how much do the artist's heirs get to earn from their long-dead relative's work? But, really, I think the real problem is that most of the works we are all concerned about were released in the pay-me-via-the-RIAA model long before the digital and internet distribution channels existed. Nor were those channels considered when the original distributions were made. Hopefully new models (Creative Commons, etc) can cure some of the problems in the future. Mind you, new problems will arise! And, maybe artists can earn some money in the future as well. I don't see this via distribution earnings ... rather performance and perhaps sponsorships? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, drew Roberts <zotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010 16:43:48 Hartmut Noack wrote: >> > resulting change of how people think would simply eliminate the concept >> > of IP as we know it today. >> >> As we know it today - in this I agree... >> >> best regs, >> HZN > > Hartmut, > > when you speak of IP, are you speaking of copyrights, patents, trademarks, > trade secrets, or some specific combination of them, or all of them? > -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
