Re: Patents, Royalties and other Scams...???


"Roderick Stewart" <rjfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <433bae2e$0$29936$cc9e4d1f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keith G wrote:
>> How did the Music Industry (and Hollywood) ever manage to get the entire
>> world to play the 'Royalties Game'??
>>
>> Why do 'artistes' expect to get paid over and over again for a job of
>> work
>> they get/got paid for and which gets put into the Public Domain? A
>> builder
>> can construct a shitter for a busy market square and he'll get paid for
>> his
>> work but he don't get a slice of every dump taken in it for the next
>> hundred
>> years or whatever? IYSWIM...
>
> It's a valid point, and one that I've often thought about myself, but
> consider
> the practicality of any alternative. For example, you've spent a lot of
> time,
> money and effort in creating something of "intellectual value" such as a
> book,
> a picture, a piece of music etc. It's value is embodied in the idea of it
> and
> not any material object that contains it, so it would be easy to make
> copies at
> little cost. So how do you get back the money it has cost you to create
> it? Who
> can you find that will pay you a living wage for an idea? What can you do
> if,
> after they've got your idea, they decide that they don't think it's worth
> very
> much and refuse to pay you what it cost you to create it? What can you do
> if
> they then create and sell enormous numbers of copies (because they have a
> publishing system in place to do this and you haven't), and make huge
> profits,
> and you are left with nothing?


No, you gotta get much further out of the box than that - think more someone
seeing the potential and wanting something rather than people in a
*commercial environment* wanting something for nothing.

My point is more to do with the fact that (theoretically) you shouldn't
'lend' me the book....

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- when you hear them you will want to buy their *whole catalogue*!!

Oh, hang on a minute....








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