On Wednesday 13 February 2013 10:02:31 James Harkins wrote: > Returning, for example, to the "repeating a joke" example: it's a straw > man, because repeating a joke around the water cooler at work earns me no > profit. I'm not cutting into the original comedian's compensation. If I get > up on stage and charge admission, that's different. No one should give this > kind of counterexample a second thought, but Kinsella does. Yawn. You do know that copyright law disagrees with you though right? Jokes, at least in the form of one liners and other short forms, cannot get copyright protection. Also, you might come up with a brand new "genre" which has never been heard before. You get no protection for this creative work even if the genre goes on to become the next big thing. Sorry, you song in that genre did not do too well economically even though it had vast influence and the songs that followed in the genre made millions for those artists. Copyright law says you are owed squat. I find it is copyright law that has no underlying unifying principles. It is vague and arbitrary and what we have today is harmful to society and culture. And I do not say this because I want to see creative folks go unrewarded. all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
