Re: Fretkiller or Fretkillr

Lumpy expounded in news:74ki65F13ngcfU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Charmed Snark wrote:

The payment comes in the first 28 years. You
did a work and you got paid for it. You don't
keep extorting more milk from the same old
cow. The copyright is not a pension plan.

The copyright is whatever the lawmakers deem it to be.
If they pass a law that says it's forever, then it's
forever. If they pass a law that says it's for XX years,
then it's for XX years.

Pretty simple.

Yes, and what I am suggesting is that it can be
changed BACK to the way it was meant to be -- a
TEMPORARY monopoly.

But the most simple concept of it all is that YOU
and I, the non-composers, non-rights owners, AT NO TIME
had anything to do with the creation, survival, distribution
or potential income from the work.

There is absolutely no right for me to have your songs
without paying for them, UNLESS YOU, give me that right.

Lumpy

You don't own any ideas. I can come up with a
commercial slogan like "Where's the beef?". But
as soon as you've read it or heard it, it has
already been duplicated in your brain. You could
use anytime you pleased, even if I protested. A
song or poem is no different.

If I write a song or poem, how can you NOT say
that it wasn't influenced by another preceeding
work, unless it was obvious. Even then, you need
someone to decide the issue because folks will
come up with different answers on each case.

Your work is built upon centuries of Language
development. When was the last time you paid your
royalties to the Queen for the use of her English?
Inquiring minds want to know.

When did Chrysler last charge you for the royalties
on the use of the wheel? Or the BBQ maker charging
you extra for the wheels on it? Or when did moneys
to to Pascal's family when you bought a cylinder
of propane for that BBQ because of all his theoretical
work on pressures? When did you pay for the
royalties on your radio to Marconi's family for
his radio theoretical works? His ideas and
inventions? Did you pay royalties to Edison
for the use of his invention the light bulb?

Did you pay royalties to the Arabs for their
invention of the Arabic system of numbers? Or
to countless mathemeticians that learned how
to use those numerals to multiplication and
so much more?

Did you pay the monks and others that came up
with the current music notation over centuries
of development. Did they pay prior generations
for their initial works?

When was the last time you sent a cheque to
Beethoven's family for a classical work you
used? Why does the survinging family only
get copyright fees for 20 years. Why not for
all time?

If you had to pay for EVERYTHING, the world
would quickly become a very impractical one.
The right profession in that world would simply
to be a judge or lawyer. Its close to that now.

You don't pay for everything you use, so don't
be hypocritical about it.

Snark.
.

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