First, copyright is not property under the Constitution: it is a right. That's why it is called copyright.
No, it is not.
Actually, in the legal sense, it is a right. It is the type of "right" that is usually called a "claim right" (a right that creates obligations in others to actively support that right, e.g. the right to a public education) rather than a "liberty right" (a right to act without interference, e.g. the right to free speech).
It is simply not a "right" under the colloquial definition. Colloqually, we say that something is a "privilege" if it is created by an authority (like a government, school, or employer), but a "right" is innate and inviolable, held by the virtue of being a person (e.g. "human right").
So, copyright is a "privilege" in the colloquial sense, and a "right" (specifically a "claim right") in the legal sense. And, the things you mentioned - free speech, privacy, freedom of/from religion - are "rights" in the colloquial sense, and "liberties" in the legal sense.
No, he wasn't. True, Assange was criticizing the EFF, but he never said they received "more than half of its annual income" from Google. (In fact, he said "The EFF is a great group, and they’ve done good things for us, but nonetheless it is significantly funded by Google, or people who work at Google.")
And, yeah, this is precisely how the conspiracy theorists turn lawsuits against a company, into being controlled by the company they're suing. According to nutjobs like Orlowski, any "cy press" settlement is nothing more than Google giving money to Google shills, rather than to the actual "victims" of Google.
So if the EFF wins a suit against Google, they're getting money, and if they're getting money, they're obviously in bed with the people who gave it to them. Therefore, EFF is a shill for Google. Quod erat stupidus.
You're taking that entirely out of context. Here is the full sentence:
Copyright holders know precisely what materials they own, and are thus better able to efficiently identify infringing copies than service providers like Veoh, who cannot readily ascertain what material is copyrighted and what is not.
No court of law has ever said that it is a "legal notice of infringement." It is not. It is an extrajudicial notice of belief of infringement.
Nor is the "putback" requirement an "appeals process." It is an extrajudicial notice of belief of non-infringement.
A use of a copyrighted work is not infringing until it is found to be so in a court of law.
Spot on. It is being seen as a right, because in the modern world, it is increasingly necessary to participate in other human right (the right to free speech, the right to political assembly, etc).
Interestingly, the poster missed the point entirely. I didn't say they have the same opinion, only that they both hold extreme opinions, ones that leave little space for anyone or anything else.
First, "the poster" has a name: it's Karl.
Second, you did literally say that they have the same opinion: "two people who have convinced themselves of a truly extreme viewpoint on copyright." Two people, one viewpoint.
That may have been a simple grammar mistake, but you also lumped them in together, without differentiating between their viewpoints, their methods, or how they were convinced that their viewpoints are valid. All of these things are different, but you lumped them together as if they were completely the same.
There was clearly no misunderstanding here, and you're obviously trying to dredge up reasons to ignore the actual arguments I made.
When you do this, it's hard to take the rest seriously. Nonetheless, I will.
Third, their viewpoints are not "extreme." Lessig's views come from his years as a copyright scholar, represented the legal mainstream as it was before the 1990's, and are not far from the legal mainstream today. Paley's view on re-using others' material when creating art, is pretty much the view of the general public (despite the "educational" campaigns from copyright maximalists).
If you want to look at someone with "extreme" viewpoints, relative to the historical legal view or the current popular view, then you need to look in a mirror.
Third, it's simply a lie that they "leave little space for anyone or anything else." Lessig, for example, is one of the founders of Creative Commons, which offers a huge variety of licenses (commercial and noncommercial). It is the very epitome of "leaving space" for everyone.
Paley, on the other hand, is simply advocating personal "civil disobedience," and mainly talks about it as a private mental choice. Everyone else is completely free to think differently.
In fact, it would be more accurate to say that copyright laws "leave little space for anyone or anything else." Copyright laws are forced upon artists and the public through the power of state-sponsored force; Paley's and Lessig's views are not.
When the Statute of Anne expired the publishers lobbied to have Copyrights start with authors but only be executed through a liscensed and approved publisher.
Close, but not quite.
The Stationers' monopoly was what expired, not the Statute of Anne.
Otherwise, you're right. The Statute of Anne was the precursor to modern copyright. It did grant a post-publication to authors.
...And then, explicitly stated through statute that the only people who would be allowed to manage that post-publication monopoly would be the Stationers company.
I meant. like JL, as in neither Np or JL will go down as great minds.
Fair enough.
She's trying to be a crying rip-off artist (and succeeding).
She's not "crying," she's coming up with solutions that work for her.
Also, she produced a feature-length film that Roger Ebert rated 4 stars: " I was enchanted. I was swept away. I was smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original. It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord."
If she is a "rip-off artist," then the world needs more rip-off artists.
She is not going down as one of the great minds of the early 21st century intellectual property debate. (like Jarrod Lanier)
I hope you're joking. Lanier may have had some good ideas once, but now he's essentially a technophobe. Many people have woken up to the fact that he's been wrong about pretty much everything since 2006.
Wouldn't that come under "REASON TO BUY", I mean when Trent Reznor did something like this he was applauded around here for it.
Reznor never did anything like that. Deluxe (physical) editions may have been scarce, but the art itself was always available.
B.T.W, it's the second hand market that pushes up the price of discontinued items
No, it's usually the near-total unavailability of discontinued items that pushes up the price.
Also, reissues may or may not "cut the mustard," but they would at least make the works available again to the general public.
Plus, the vast majority of out-of-print works are not available at any price; the few copies that still exist are not for sale (assuming there are any copies that still exist).
It is certainly possible to put these works back into print, but that requires infringing upon copyright.
I think that Nina Paley sort of is on par with Larry Leesig [sic], two people who have convinced themselves of a truly extreme viewpoint on copyright.
First of all: the viewpoints of Nina Paley and Larry Lessig are not the same at all. Lessig is not a copyright abolitionist (no matter what copyright maximalists would have you believe).
Second of all: Paley, at least, is convinced of her view, because copyright has directly interfered with her creation of artistic works. She didn't "convince herself," she was convinced because working within the copyright system convinced her that it was wrong. It was the copyright system itself that convinced her.
Does copyright stop the flow of information? Generally no, because we still discuss what is copyright anyway (did you see the blahblach movie or did you real the new so-and-so book?).
Copyright law absolutely interferes with people who are trying to utilize copyrighted works for their own creation, and/or people who are trying to utilize copyrighted works for the purpose of general dissemination to the public. And since this sort of "collective conversation" is much of which drives culture, yes, it does stop the flow of information (or at the very least, the flow of expression).
It doesn't stop ordinary humans from talking about the works, that is true; it does stop ordinary humans from using the actual expressive works (by e.g. sharing a sample on YouTube). Or it would, if anyone cared whether they were infringing or not.
Except in exceptional cases, nobody wants to use copyright to stop distribution, they want to use it as a legal basis under which distribution can occur.
Plenty of people want to use copyright to stop distribution. There are plenty of copyright holders who outright state, often by writing Congress, that they should have the right to stop distribution for content-based reasons. Here's just one example:
Artists can, and should continue to be able to, deny a use that they do not agree with. For one, an artist should be able to turn down uses in connection with messages that the artist finds objectionable. [...]
For example, Melissa Etheridge is a known lesbian and animal rights activist. A compulsory license would allow someone to remix or sample her music into a new work filled with homophobic epithets, and she could not say "no". In the same way, a compulsory license would allow someone to remix or sample music by Ted Nugent, noted gun ownership advocate, for a song promoting stricter gun control without Nugent's pelmission.
Were this done directly by the government, this would be called "content-based censorship."
Also, the mere fact that copyright can only be licensed by those who can afford the license (however much it may be) means that copyright stops distribution. It doesn't stop all distribution, of course - but it does limit distribution to those with enough money to enter into deals with corporate rights holders.
It would be incredibly difficult (if not impossible) for artists to be able to get compensation for their works if they had no legal standing.
"Legal standing" does not mean "copyright." There are plenty of ways for artists to get compensated without holding the copyright to their works. Obviously, crowdfunding is one example, but even historically, the vast majority of artists did not hold the copyright to their works - think people who are work-for-hire, like graphic designers, actors, studio artists, etc. In fact, most artists have always been paid more if they were work-for-hire than if they signed away their copyrights for a commission (a.k.a. royalties).
The idea that copyright gives creators a legal right to leverage against publishers is a good one, in theory, but in practice it's not as significant as people think. For one thing, even without copyright, artists would always have "first publication" rights, and those can be (and usually are) more important than their post-publication monopoly rights.
For another thing, the fact that publishers (including labels, studios, etc.) are assigned the copyrights to thousands or millions of works, mean that they tend to have collective monopolies over entire markets. Aside from being destructive to artistic markets in general, this significantly reduces the bargaining power of creators within those markets.
So, while copyright may give creators rights, in order to bargain with copyright assignees, it eventually makes those barganing rights nearly inconsequential.
The result is what you see in the modern piracy economy, the only artists thriving are those who are willing to forego the creation process and instead work on the cult of celebrity, which pays far more. It's a stupid system where people pay more for a "personal appearance" of celebutards like a Kardashian than they do for a musician or writer.
This is exactly what has been happening since celberety existed. It has zero to do with a "modern piracy economy," whatever that is supposed to be.
Nina's problem I think is that she has never been on the other side with a product people widely pirate
Nina has, and does, encourage people to pirate her product. And they do - widely.
If there's anyone who has "been on the other side," it's her.
If all that effort went instead into artistic creation... opportunity costs, right?
Ironically, you're making her point for her. She - like many, many artists (especially professional creators) - spent far too much time considering if her use of a work is allowed under copyright law. The self-censorship, plus the multi-year legal wrangling with copyright holders, the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to license songs from the 20's and 30's, etc... all of these created "opportunity costs" that she didn't choose.
It was only by completely ignoring copyright law that she was able to put that effort into artistic creation.
She went over this later in the video, especially the part before she showed "This Land Is Mine." I suppose you didn't make it that far.
You very specifically mentioned bars, restaurants, and live venues.
All of which can be sued by the sound recording copyright holders, just like terrestrial radio stations are here. (Like terrestrial radio, they don't pay anyone but songwriter PRO's like ASCAP or BMI for the music they play.)
These aren't the people who have been suing at all, those people were Flo and Eddie, these people are ABS Entertainment.
Flo and Eddie are not (just) songwriters, and they are not suing as songwriters. They are (also) the copyright holders of the recordings (the "masters").
The basis of their suits, like the basis of ABS Entertainment's suits, is that they (as sound recording copyright holders) have public performance rights under state statutes or common laws. (Laws which are preempted by Federal copyright statutes for post-1972 sound recordings.)
(by the way 'mechanicals' ONLY refer to the copyright that is held in the sound recording, it is paid to the OWNER OF THE MASTER TAPE . They are never paid to the songwriter unless the songwriter is also the owner of the master tapes.)
That's not how the term is usually used. See e.g. this FAQ by HFA:
A mechanical license grants the rights to reproduce and distribute copyrighted musical compositions (songs) on CDs, records, tapes, ringtones, permanent digital downloads, interactive streams and other digital configurations[...]
A mechanical license DOES NOT grant the right to:
- Reproduce sound recordings, also known as “master use rights”.
Master use rights are required for previously recorded material that you don’t own or control. HFA doesn’t issue master use licenses. Master use rights can only be obtained from the owner of the master recording, usually a record company.
So they've been paying pre 72 songwriters all along.
True, but this article (and my comment) is about the sound recording copyright holders. (By the way, "mechanicals" usually refer to the royalties paid to songwriters whenever a song is reproduced "mechanically," say a CD or download.)
These are the people who have been suing under various state laws (both "common law" and statutory).
They have to do this under state laws, because under federal law, they do not have a copyright in public performances (other than for Internet radio).
Incidentally, the only people who have been paying sound recording royalties have been "tech companies" like Pandora or Spotify.
If anything, charging terrestrial radio for sound recording royalties will benefit "tech companies" - because it levels the playing field, which has been unfairly biased against Internet radio.
Instead of being ripped off for free by tech companies
Uh, the people who have been "ripping off" these songs "for free" have been every business who plays these songs, and they have been doing so for as long as copyright has existed.
While it's amusing to see you trying to steer this to an anti-tech viewpoint, it's an outright lie.
Pre-1972 music will disappear because it will have to be paid for like post-1972 music?
Except that, for terrestrial radio, post-1972 music does not have to be paid for.
At least, not to the sound recording copyright holders. And since pre-1972 sound recording copyright holders, unlike post-1972 copyright holders, have a claim against radio stations (and bars, and restaurants, and live venues...) that has no statutory limits or rates, those radio stations (&etc.) will simply stop playing music rather than be sued for whatever amount the sound recording copyright holders want.
They're paying nothing now, and it doesn't take a genius to see that they'll stop playing the music before they risk being sued for trillions of dollars.
T he fact that you're still bringing this up - without event mentioning that Mike replied to it - shows that you are nothing more than a troll and/or a shill.
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No, it is not.
Actually, in the legal sense, it is a right. It is the type of "right" that is usually called a "claim right" (a right that creates obligations in others to actively support that right, e.g. the right to a public education) rather than a "liberty right" (a right to act without interference, e.g. the right to free speech).
It is simply not a "right" under the colloquial definition. Colloqually, we say that something is a "privilege" if it is created by an authority (like a government, school, or employer), but a "right" is innate and inviolable, held by the virtue of being a person (e.g. "human right").
So, copyright is a "privilege" in the colloquial sense, and a "right" (specifically a "claim right") in the legal sense. And, the things you mentioned - free speech, privacy, freedom of/from religion - are "rights" in the colloquial sense, and "liberties" in the legal sense.
The rest of the comment is pretty much spot-on.
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No, he wasn't. True, Assange was criticizing the EFF, but he never said they received "more than half of its annual income" from Google. (In fact, he said "The EFF is a great group, and they’ve done good things for us, but nonetheless it is significantly funded by Google, or people who work at Google.")
And, yeah, this is precisely how the conspiracy theorists turn lawsuits against a company, into being controlled by the company they're suing. According to nutjobs like Orlowski, any "cy press" settlement is nothing more than Google giving money to Google shills, rather than to the actual "victims" of Google.
So if the EFF wins a suit against Google, they're getting money, and if they're getting money, they're obviously in bed with the people who gave it to them. Therefore, EFF is a shill for Google. Quod erat stupidus.
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You're taking that entirely out of context. Here is the full sentence:
No court of law has ever said that it is a "legal notice of infringement." It is not. It is an extrajudicial notice of belief of infringement.
Nor is the "putback" requirement an "appeals process." It is an extrajudicial notice of belief of non-infringement.
A use of a copyrighted work is not infringing until it is found to be so in a court of law.
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Spot on. It is being seen as a right, because in the modern world, it is increasingly necessary to participate in other human right (the right to free speech, the right to political assembly, etc).
It should also be mentioned that copyright, unlike the right to an Internet connection (according to the U.N.), is not a human right:
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Statement-SR-cultural-rights-11-Marc h.pdf
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Sportsing
Please, can anyone esplain this in the context of Sportsing?
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Well, that's so much better.
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First, "the poster" has a name: it's Karl.
Second, you did literally say that they have the same opinion: "two people who have convinced themselves of a truly extreme viewpoint on copyright." Two people, one viewpoint.
That may have been a simple grammar mistake, but you also lumped them in together, without differentiating between their viewpoints, their methods, or how they were convinced that their viewpoints are valid. All of these things are different, but you lumped them together as if they were completely the same.
There was clearly no misunderstanding here, and you're obviously trying to dredge up reasons to ignore the actual arguments I made.
When you do this, it's hard to take the rest seriously. Nonetheless, I will.
Third, their viewpoints are not "extreme." Lessig's views come from his years as a copyright scholar, represented the legal mainstream as it was before the 1990's, and are not far from the legal mainstream today. Paley's view on re-using others' material when creating art, is pretty much the view of the general public (despite the "educational" campaigns from copyright maximalists).
If you want to look at someone with "extreme" viewpoints, relative to the historical legal view or the current popular view, then you need to look in a mirror.
Third, it's simply a lie that they "leave little space for anyone or anything else." Lessig, for example, is one of the founders of Creative Commons, which offers a huge variety of licenses (commercial and noncommercial). It is the very epitome of "leaving space" for everyone.
Paley, on the other hand, is simply advocating personal "civil disobedience," and mainly talks about it as a private mental choice. Everyone else is completely free to think differently.
In fact, it would be more accurate to say that copyright laws "leave little space for anyone or anything else." Copyright laws are forced upon artists and the public through the power of state-sponsored force; Paley's and Lessig's views are not.
As for the "why doesn't she use other songs" argument, I'll let Nina herself answer that:
http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/why.html
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through a liscensed and approved publisher.
Close, but not quite.
The Stationers' monopoly was what expired, not the Statute of Anne.
Otherwise, you're right. The Statute of Anne was the precursor to modern copyright. It did grant a post-publication to authors.
...And then, explicitly stated through statute that the only people who would be allowed to manage that post-publication monopoly would be the Stationers company.
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Fair enough.
She's not "crying," she's coming up with solutions that work for her.
Also, she produced a feature-length film that Roger Ebert rated 4 stars: " I was enchanted. I was swept away. I was smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original. It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord."
If she is a "rip-off artist," then the world needs more rip-off artists.
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I hope you're joking. Lanier may have had some good ideas once, but now he's essentially a technophobe. Many people have woken up to the fact that he's been wrong about pretty much everything since 2006.
Some examples (from very different political points of view):
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/05/15/jaron-laniers-who-owns-the-future-what-on-e arth-is-this-guy-talking-about/
https://c4ss.org/content/29842
http://readwrite.com/2013/03/13/jaron-l anier-got-everything-wrong
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-owns-the-future-by-jaron-lanie r/2013/05/03/400f8fb0-ab6d-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_print.html
http://angrylittletree.com/2010/01/colla boration-or-collectivism-joaron-lanier-gets-it-wrong.html
I'm sure you can find more.
In any case, Paley isn't trying to be "one of the great minds of the early 21st century intellectual property debate." She's trying to be an artist.
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Reznor never did anything like that. Deluxe (physical) editions may have been scarce, but the art itself was always available.
No, it's usually the near-total unavailability of discontinued items that pushes up the price.
Also, reissues may or may not "cut the mustard," but they would at least make the works available again to the general public.
Plus, the vast majority of out-of-print works are not available at any price; the few copies that still exist are not for sale (assuming there are any copies that still exist).
It is certainly possible to put these works back into print, but that requires infringing upon copyright.
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First of all: the viewpoints of Nina Paley and Larry Lessig are not the same at all. Lessig is not a copyright abolitionist (no matter what copyright maximalists would have you believe).
Second of all: Paley, at least, is convinced of her view, because copyright has directly interfered with her creation of artistic works. She didn't "convince herself," she was convinced because working within the copyright system convinced her that it was wrong. It was the copyright system itself that convinced her.
Copyright law absolutely interferes with people who are trying to utilize copyrighted works for their own creation, and/or people who are trying to utilize copyrighted works for the purpose of general dissemination to the public. And since this sort of "collective conversation" is much of which drives culture, yes, it does stop the flow of information (or at the very least, the flow of expression).
It doesn't stop ordinary humans from talking about the works, that is true; it does stop ordinary humans from using the actual expressive works (by e.g. sharing a sample on YouTube). Or it would, if anyone cared whether they were infringing or not.
Plenty of people want to use copyright to stop distribution. There are plenty of copyright holders who outright state, often by writing Congress, that they should have the right to stop distribution for content-based reasons. Here's just one example:
- LaPolt Law, P.C. and Steven Tyler comment to the USPTO
Were this done directly by the government, this would be called "content-based censorship."
Also, the mere fact that copyright can only be licensed by those who can afford the license (however much it may be) means that copyright stops distribution. It doesn't stop all distribution, of course - but it does limit distribution to those with enough money to enter into deals with corporate rights holders.
"Legal standing" does not mean "copyright." There are plenty of ways for artists to get compensated without holding the copyright to their works. Obviously, crowdfunding is one example, but even historically, the vast majority of artists did not hold the copyright to their works - think people who are work-for-hire, like graphic designers, actors, studio artists, etc. In fact, most artists have always been paid more if they were work-for-hire than if they signed away their copyrights for a commission (a.k.a. royalties).
The idea that copyright gives creators a legal right to leverage against publishers is a good one, in theory, but in practice it's not as significant as people think. For one thing, even without copyright, artists would always have "first publication" rights, and those can be (and usually are) more important than their post-publication monopoly rights.
For another thing, the fact that publishers (including labels, studios, etc.) are assigned the copyrights to thousands or millions of works, mean that they tend to have collective monopolies over entire markets. Aside from being destructive to artistic markets in general, this significantly reduces the bargaining power of creators within those markets.
So, while copyright may give creators rights, in order to bargain with copyright assignees, it eventually makes those barganing rights nearly inconsequential.
This is exactly what has been happening since celberety existed. It has zero to do with a "modern piracy economy," whatever that is supposed to be.
Nina has, and does, encourage people to pirate her product. And they do - widely.
If there's anyone who has "been on the other side," it's her.
Ironically, you're making her point for her. She - like many, many artists (especially professional creators) - spent far too much time considering if her use of a work is allowed under copyright law. The self-censorship, plus the multi-year legal wrangling with copyright holders, the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to license songs from the 20's and 30's, etc... all of these created "opportunity costs" that she didn't choose.
It was only by completely ignoring copyright law that she was able to put that effort into artistic creation.
She went over this later in the video, especially the part before she showed "This Land Is Mine." I suppose you didn't make it that far.
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All of which can be sued by the sound recording copyright holders, just like terrestrial radio stations are here. (Like terrestrial radio, they don't pay anyone but songwriter PRO's like ASCAP or BMI for the music they play.)
These aren't the people who have been suing at all, those people were Flo and Eddie, these people are ABS Entertainment.
Flo and Eddie are not (just) songwriters, and they are not suing as songwriters. They are (also) the copyright holders of the recordings (the "masters").
The basis of their suits, like the basis of ABS Entertainment's suits, is that they (as sound recording copyright holders) have public performance rights under state statutes or common laws. (Laws which are preempted by Federal copyright statutes for post-1972 sound recordings.)
(by the way 'mechanicals' ONLY refer to the copyright that is held in the sound recording, it is paid to the OWNER OF THE MASTER TAPE . They are never paid to the songwriter unless the songwriter is also the owner of the master tapes.)
That's not how the term is usually used. See e.g. this FAQ by HFA:
- https://www.harryfox.com/license_music/what_is_mechanical_license.html
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True, but this article (and my comment) is about the sound recording copyright holders. (By the way, "mechanicals" usually refer to the royalties paid to songwriters whenever a song is reproduced "mechanically," say a CD or download.)
These are the people who have been suing under various state laws (both "common law" and statutory).
They have to do this under state laws, because under federal law, they do not have a copyright in public performances (other than for Internet radio).
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If anything, charging terrestrial radio for sound recording royalties will benefit "tech companies" - because it levels the playing field, which has been unfairly biased against Internet radio.
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Uh, the people who have been "ripping off" these songs "for free" have been every business who plays these songs, and they have been doing so for as long as copyright has existed.
While it's amusing to see you trying to steer this to an anti-tech viewpoint, it's an outright lie.
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Except that, for terrestrial radio, post-1972 music does not have to be paid for.
At least, not to the sound recording copyright holders. And since pre-1972 sound recording copyright holders, unlike post-1972 copyright holders, have a claim against radio stations (and bars, and restaurants, and live venues...) that has no statutory limits or rates, those radio stations (&etc.) will simply stop playing music rather than be sued for whatever amount the sound recording copyright holders want.
They're paying nothing now, and it doesn't take a genius to see that they'll stop playing the music before they risk being sued for trillions of dollars.
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He was, and he explained to you exactly why your criticism was wrong and he accepted their results.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150703/00001531533/venture-capital-trade-association-hir es-patent-troll-lawyers-fights-against-patent-reform-even-as-most-vcs-want-patent-reform.shtml#c273
T he fact that you're still bringing this up - without event mentioning that Mike replied to it - shows that you are nothing more than a troll and/or a shill.