On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:25 PM, drew Roberts <zotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010 14:50:20 you wrote: >> surely its not that dichotomous. one middle ground: >> >> * don't force support against anyone's will >> * use extreme force against anyone who redistributes (i.e. the creator >> is the only legal distributor) > > That's the problem right there. You can't even prove damages and yet you > think "extreme force" will be necessary to get people to comply. i was being partly tongue in cheek, naturally. > Seriously, shall we have the death penalty for distributors? What about for > performers? What about for unintentional performers? > > If not the death penalty, what about 4 or 5 years in jail? IF copyright was restricted to the creator AND limited in duration to a single-digit number of years AND utterly non-transferable (even to next-of-kin) AND intent had to proven THEN i'd say that maybe 6 months or a year in jail, with options for first offenses and/or parole and/or scope of damages affecting the sentence? unintentional distribution and/or performance is a hard case that, like so many other gray areas, would have to be decided by a court. then of course is the question of what constitutes distribution or performance, but these questions exist in the current state of affairs and will always represent some kind of tradeoff. 5 seconds? 2 bars? chord changes but not melody, or vice versa? 2 lines of lyrics? etc. etc. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
