i like this immaterial object angle.....thats kind of like saying that
since houses are built with wood that the builders dont really have a right
to sell them, and you can go live in the house for free, cause the
arrangement of wood and nails into some kind of order cannot be
copywritten.
pixilated wrote:
quoted 34 lines Sophistry? The idea of authorial ownership is very much tied up with> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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.
>
> > 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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