From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V8 #121 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Friday, August 22 2003 Volume 08 : Number 121 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Basic copyright overview [Lipman_Larry ] Re: Basic copyright overview ["Paxety Pages" ] Off topic: Name ["Desianto F. W." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 01:10:54 -0500 From: Lipman_Larry Subject: Basic copyright overview An overview for those who might be interested... As I understand it, in VERY basic terms... Copyright law actually consists of five distinct rights in an item of intellectual property: the right to display, copy, sell, distribute and perform. Each of these rights is licensed individually to various entities to help exploit the work. In the case of a sound recording, the songwriter will contract with a publisher, whose job it is to license (exploit) the music and lyrics as far and wide as possible while retaining value. An artist, through the record label, pays royalties to the publisher for the privilege of recording a version of the song and copying that version onto an album. Performing rights societies (ASCAP and BMI in the U.S.) distribute royalties collected from broadcasters and venues for the privilege of publicly performing those songs. It is important to remember that artists who are not songwriters make their money from album sales (their version), concerts and merchandising. Songwriters and publishers make their money from EVERY use of the material. That is why artists today are also often songwriters as well (and explains some of the poor quality material). When someone makes an illegal copy, none of these parties are compensated. Thus, it hurts artists like Basia and Danny (who often write their own material) when illegal copies are made. Remove the financial rewards for being an artist, and you diminish and dilute the market for all such material. That is NOT to say that the system is not deeply flawed, nor am I defending the blatant greed of many labels. I am just sharing the state of the law as I understand it today. You can legally make all the copies you want for your own personal use, but the minute you give a copy to someone else, you violate copyright law. Those of us who derive pleasure from recorded music must find a way to support our artists (financially, by purchase of their material) while the music industry must find a way to deliver that product at reasonable cost while producing a rational profit. Apple is certainly stirring the waters. We live in interesting times! LL P.S. CYA Notice: I am not an attorney and not qualified to offer legal advice. Anyone working with intellectual property should seek the advice and counsel of a licensed professional. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:23:01 -0400 From: "Paxety Pages" Subject: Re: Basic copyright overview On 8/21/03 at 1:10 AM Lipman_Larry wrote: >An overview for those who might be interested... >As I understand it, in VERY basic terms... > >Copyright law actually consists of five distinct rights in an item of >intellectual property: the right to display, copy, sell, distribute and >perform. Each of these rights is licensed individually to various >entities >to help exploit the work. This is correct as far as I understand it, and very well put. The only thing I would add is that the purchaser of a CD is purchasing a license as well as the physical CD. The license is only for non-commercial use by the purchaser only. As Larry said, the purchaser can make copies for his or her own use, but not to give away. The idiots employed by the major recording companies (I know some and spoke with them regularly until about a year ago) refuse to understand that copying and file sharing is more about access than cost. Many people had much rather download an mp3 and have the song now than drive to a store or wait on an order from Amazon. But many in the record industry had rather use lawsuits, legal threats, and threats to damage purchasers computers rather than adapt their business model. This is the same attitude many of the same companies faced when first confronted by home videotape machines. As we know now, the ability to play back a movie at home resulted in hefty profits for the movie industry. I believe a better business model that included downloading would have similar results for the recording industry. It's going to be interesting to see what happens when Apple releases the Windows version of their software - downloads should really explode and that should attract a lot of attention. un abrazo, juan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 05:39:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Desianto F. W." Subject: Off topic: Name To Bill, Hi Bill, I believe you still remember our discussion about Anggun. BTW, do you know the meaning of the name Anggun is? Anggun means charming or elegant. Cipta means to create, ciptaan = creation. Sasmi, well I don't know the exact meaning but sasmita means a sign. So, her full name can have a meaning as: The sign of a charming creation, or something like that. Indonesian names are usually given as the hopes of the parents so their children will have characteristics like their names' meanings. Desianto F. W. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. 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