Sophistry? The idea of authorial ownership is very much tied up with
copyright and the idea of a work as an immaterial object. If you don't
see how this relates to the issue of free MP3s, you need to think a
little harder.
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From: John Reading [mailto:john.reading@us.didata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:30 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: [idm] Indie Ethics
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> From: pixilated [mailto:pixilated@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG]
>
> No. Records cost money because records cost you money to produce. It
> costs you nothing if someone somehow replicates the music that is
> produced when that record is played. The product you are selling when
> you sell a record is a RECORD. The "music" isn't even on there; it is
> in the air and in your brain when you play it on a turntable.
> Otherwise it's just grooves on vinyl.
sophistry.
quoted 5 lines What I am saying is that it seems strange> What I am saying is that it seems strange
> that you could claim sole ownership of the vibrations in the
> air that I
> experience as music.
>
Who claiming this? Entitlement issues with free mp3s has nothing to do
with this.
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