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In Reply to: RE: Next battle in the illegal download wars posted by k-k-k-kenny on July 15, 2012 at 06:14:06
All sounds very nice, until you look at the reality -- the content creators work their butts off, and then their stuff gets stolen. How would you feel if most of your paycheck went to some Internet pirate?
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for sure.
On the other hand, were I Robert Johnson or Buster Keaton I'd no longer be caring.
I'm not against strong copyright for the lifetimes of artistic creators, and a bit over: say 20 years, to enable the family to benefit some.
But 95 year copyrights for works "created" by corporations (as if that ever occurred) are gratuitous rent seeking by the lazy and greedy, I think. And those who have the gall to patent naturally occurring phenomena (such as parts of the human genome) and then stifle potentially valuable* research by demanding rents from others engaged in the field are, in my view, despicable.
*By valuable I mean "of value to humans", not "capable of commanding a price".
Your distinction of two different meanings of "value" is telling. Back in the golden age of the music industry, record companies took the work of a musician, which might be of great aesthetic or intrinsic "value", though that is subjective of course, and made it valuable in the sense of commanding a price on a nationwide or even worldwide market. And the musicians typically received only a small percentage of the resulting profits.
Today, the internet makes marketing music much cheaper and replicating and distributing it almost free. And I'm told even the recording itself is easier and cheaper than it used to be. So, record company profits are disappearing, though they still aren't going to the musicians, who continue to make not very much. Using piracy as an excuse to increase copyright protection isn't going to change any of that substantially, but it does make legitimate innovative work more expensive to do.
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