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Re: [Logic_Cafe] Re: Lawsuits (was M-Audio 88Pro
2005-01-05 by GAmoore@aol.com
I find it mind-boggling that people try to defend the theft of music by
giving it a puerile euphemism like "file sharing".
I think Ubik's comment was that he wanted to share his own music and wished artists could do that for the love of their craft. I don't think he advocated borrowing from someone else without their permission. As for me, I am in agreement with intellectual property rights for songwriters, and thats why I felt the Vervepipe should get >some< compensation for thier creative endeavors. That doesn't mean its ok to steal samples.
Jokes are written by human beings - creative and clever ones - and comedians make livings just as muscians do. So do chefs. Check out www.foodnetwork.com for thousands of recipes from tv shows. New recipes are created all the time by people who went to chef school and spent years praticing their craft and using their creativity. Hopefully songwriters will continue to be compensated as they have been but with the MP3 model - all of you buying only one song instead of an album means that the songwriters for those other songs don't get royalties - therefore the playing field will become more uneven. Unfortunately the cat is out of the bag for mp3's just as its easy to send email jokes and email recipes, people share music now. So the business model has changed, and people need to adapt to make money.