On Tuesday 12 February 2013 09:28:14 James Harkins wrote: > I wanted to be impressed. I'm not a big fan of copyright myself, and I > hoped this would provide some strong counterarguments. Unfortunately, > merely declaring that the artist's labor has no value worth protecting does > not make it so. It is not thet the artist's labour necessarily has no value although, like a plumber's labour, it might have no value. It is more a question of the damage we do to society by trying to compensate the artist for that labour via the laws of copyright rather than in some other fashion. all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user