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scott
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response 156 of 165:
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Jun 15 03:26 UTC 2002 |
"In a continuing effort to maintain their image as evil incarnate" is how a
slashdot item on record company consideration of attempting to charge
royalties on sales of used CDs. The referenced article can be found at:
http://www.sduniontribune.com/news/business/20020614-9999_1b14usedcds.html
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gull
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response 157 of 165:
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Jun 15 20:09 UTC 2002 |
Re #146: France tried eliminating copyright, after the French revolution.
It resulted in a major reduction in the amount of creative works
produced there. I'd hope we won't make the same mistake.
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other
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response 158 of 165:
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Jun 16 05:30 UTC 2002 |
might lead to an overall improvement in the quality of the works actually
produced...
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gull
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response 159 of 165:
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Jun 17 13:27 UTC 2002 |
I'd expect a decrease in quality, personally. It's the people who are good
at what they do who have the most to lose.
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mcnally
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response 160 of 165:
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Jun 17 23:21 UTC 2002 |
re #157: I've never heard that before. Do you know whether other factors
(such as the loss of aristocratic patronage) were accounted for?
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gull
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response 161 of 165:
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Jun 18 12:33 UTC 2002 |
I don't know. I did find this reference with a web search, though it
appears to be a college student's paper:
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:UnEL9Hlq8KwC:skipper.gseis.ucla.edu/st
udents/dwalker/html/projects/documents/IS-200_Heirs_of_the_Enlightenment.rtf+fr
ench+revolution+intellectual+property&hl=en&ie=UTF8
Sorry for the long URL, it's a Google-converted HTML version of a Rich Text
document.
"In freeing the presses, it appears that the National Assembly intended to
break the monopolistic hold of the book guilds, allowing the great literary
works of the Enlightenment to be printed and circulated freely, as well as
allowing new works to be published without censorship. The result, however,
was far different. Having essentially dissolved all copyright, pirating of
new and older works became widespread. Although slanderous and libelous
pamphlets circulated widely, the publication of books came to a virtual halt
as both authors and publishers found that rampant pirating made the
publishing of books economically unfeasible. Rather than foster creativity,
the freedom of the presses stifled creativity."
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dbratman
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response 162 of 165:
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Jun 19 21:36 UTC 2002 |
Not that it proves anything, but French music had been in kind of the
doldrums anyway through the later 18th century, and produced few
masterpieces after Rameau's death in 1764 until Hector Berlioz came
roaring in after the Restoration, in the late 1820s.
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krj
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response 163 of 165:
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Jun 21 03:02 UTC 2002 |
Slashdot points to a bunch of stuff about the Librarian of Congress'
decision on webcasting royalty rates and record keeping requirements.
The short version is that the proposed rates were cut in half
-- the 50% discount for on-air radio broadcasters was eliminated,
setting the rate at $0.0007 per listener per song. Mainstream
media calls this a win for webcasters; Internet media says that
half of vastly-more-than-total-revenues is still more than total
revenues, and most independent webcasters in the USA are finished.
To make things worse, everyone who has webcasted has to pay a bill
for the four previous years' royalties, at this rate, and it's due
this October. Many independent and student stations are expected
to be bankrupted.
Slashdot readers report that some online webcasters have already
started to shut down. A few sympathetic congressmen are making
noises. The RIAA is complaining that the rate set by the Librarian
of Congress is too low.
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jmsaul
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response 164 of 165:
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Jun 21 04:40 UTC 2002 |
Wait for legislation on this one, if enough congresspeople get pulled in.
This isnt a final resolution by any means, and Congress has been looking
increasingly suspicious of the RIAA lately.
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krj
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response 165 of 165:
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Jun 22 20:04 UTC 2002 |
((Metadiscussion: the "Napster" items are linked between Music
conference and each season's Agora. The Agora conference has now
rolled over to Summer; I'll start The Eleventh Napster Item in
a couple of days, so other folks have a chance to get things in
Agora first; sooner if there is any big news.))
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