g303 wrote:
quoted 5 lines The point is that whatever the quality, be it DAT/CD/tape/or 0s and 1s>
> The point is that whatever the quality, be it DAT/CD/tape/or 0s and 1s
> scratched out on someones arse and no matter whether you are selling it
> at a loss or profit - YOU ARE TAKING SOMETHING WHICH DOES NOT BELONG TO
> YOU.
Of course, it is perfectly legal to make mix tapes for people, in the US
anyways, for non-commercial purposes. However you feel about ownership,
those are the rules. I believe it also applies to mix CDs as well, were
you to be in posession of a CDR. As long as it is not a commercial
enterprise, I am within my legal rights to do this. That is the law.
In terms of taking something which is not yours, what are you referring
to? Surely you are not referring to royalties, because there is no way
for the record company or the artist to receive any further financial
renumeration for the transfer of ownership of a medium containing that
artist's music once all media containing that artist's music are sold and
the record company decides not to produce any more. Once it's out of
print, no more money can be made unless the label decides to put it back
in print. And the facts are, especially when referring to the crowd on
this list, that pretty much everyone here, given the choice, would rather
have the "real thing" over a copy, which is to say that even if someone
decided to make a CD of the Joyrex tracks and give it away, and then later
Rephlex were to print up legitimate ones and sell them, I can't imagine
that we would not all purchase the legitimate one.
Are you referring to the ownership of the "art?" Which is to say, the
artist feels that his/her "art" consists of 500 slabs of vinyl with music
s/he made engraved into it, to be sold by a licensee of his/her choice at
standard commercial prices, rather than just the music itself? And once
someone decides to press up 5 more for their friends, this constitutes a
violation of the artist by changing his/her art without permission? This
is an interesting philosophical question, but you would have to agree
that, legally, there's no basis for this.
Or are you referring to the concept that "only 500 people should hear
this," which is easily violated simply by playing the music on the radio?
In this picture, given that it is legal for me to record the music in any
non-commercial manner I choose, on any medium I choose, what *exactly* am
I taking that doesn't belong to me?
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