Re: BIS
- From: "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyş@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:04:04 -0500
Bob Harper <bob.harper@xxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed in news:KK-dnSAcjPjanzrVnZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:
Dan Fowler wrote:
I appreciate his participation in this forum (and also that BIS puts out
such great recordings -- that I'm always happy to shell out for!).
Agreed. Mr. von Bahr's unfailing courtesy in the face of really unpleasant
behavior on the part of some posters is an example those posters could well
follow.
As to the matter at hand, I think your statement that he raises 'legitimate
concerns about protecting artistic rights in the age of rapidly changing
technology' gets it exactly right.
Finding the proper modality to protect artist's (and their recording
company's) rights 'by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors
the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries' (US
Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8) is the problem. It seems to
me that 'limited Times' is the key. The unfortunate tendency of the US
Congress to extend the duration of copyright every time Mickey Mouse is
about to enter the public domain is manifestly *not* the right answer.
But it fattens their slush funds, doesn't it? It is for this reason that I
will not be voting the straight Democratic ticket this November, probably
picking some splinter candidate for Congressman as a protest (most likely
Peace and Freedom, if they field somebody in my district, or maybe Green).
While I cannot *prove* that Rep. Howard Berman engages in quid pro quo with
Disney and Warner Brothers, there is no doubt in my mind that it is the case.
As with my assumption that Scarlett Johannson will never go to bed with me,
it is a supposition so obviously likely that it does not need to be tested.
It permits, even encourages, the 'dog in the manger' behavior on the part
of recording companies about which we hear frequent complaints here.
Since Mr. von Bahr has never, to my knowledge, deleted a recording issued
by BIS, he's not subject to that criticism. Others are, and the
proliferation of private transfers is the entirely predictable result.
I agree there, too, and repeat my belief that the existence of those "private
transfers," traded in a lively underground, is absolutely essential to the
preservation of classical music and its recordings.
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