Saturday, December 15, 2007
Why we're here
This is a companion to the MySpace page www.myspace.com/progagainstpirates and we're a group of musicians and small labels (which are also typically run by musicians) that are doing our best to help educate people on the problems with illegal downloading and how it really isn't helping and also to refute all the common excuses that come up. We welcome intelligent and reasoned dialog and hope you can take something useful away from your visit here and help us to keep interesting and cutting edge music coming out, otherwise you're going to be listening to Hanna Montana and the Eagles because nothing else will be left.
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4 comments:
Well, all the classic music, jazz, ragtime and so on, all of them prior of 1930's and so no more under copyright so-called protection, all that stuff I didn't know was "nothing else". There's always something to be learned from you humble progsters.
I actually don't understand what point you are trying to make, but as I recall, copyright protection is 120 years, which is probably excessive, but that has to do with the composition itself. If for example you make a copy of a current recording of the London Symphony playing Bach, the Symphony has no financial obligation to the author because the copyright has expired, but their recording is current and if you copy it, then you are in violation of the copyright of the orchestra.
"Well, all the classic music, jazz, ragtime and so on, all of them prior of 1930's"
I presume you are talking about the laws of the USA.
Well I've got sad news for you:
There are other countries that exist outside of your USA and they have their OWN laws.
Yes - their own laws concerning copright protection.
Look at he UK for example, it's 50 years and the laws are even more lenient in other countries.
So you can keep to your prior 1930's and I'll keep to my prior 1958
I don't get it.
What are you talking about?
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