Good Copy Bad Copy - What Constitutes Fair Use?

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

That's funny.

Without the artist, they wouldn't have a product to sell. They may market the fuck out of their artist and produce a record, provide studios, and so on - but they're not required.

A recording artist is the same as someone that does product development at a large company. If you come up with a great product you get a bit of a bonus, but generally retain no patent rights, no IP rights, and no profit sharing. Without those product development engineers the company wouldn't have anything to sell either.

Hell, take that Jarvik guy that's shilling some drug on TV now for cholesterol. He probably designed that artificial heart while at a company, is making no money off of the profits off of it, and is probably making much more off of his endorsement deal than as an employee (sounds kinda like the music industry, doesn't it?).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Speaking of books, is it wrong to sell old books you have collecting dust at a yard sale, Brady?

I think that falls under the same category of selling anything that's intellectual property. You're transferring your right of possession of the material to somebody else and charging them for the service.

Much the same reason I imagine stores don't need the express written consent of the commissioner of major league MPAA in order to sell records.

Of course, you should probably also remember that those e-books you download off of the internet are just as illegal as the movie or album you torrented yesterday.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by sabbey

Overall, it might be economics 101, but if more and more people stop buying CDs because of the current pricing how's that going to keep making the most profits. The only way that will work is if they start charging even more, $30 a disc? That would just get more people to not even buy the stuff even more than they are already skipping doing so and finding another hobby or entertainment choice for their dollar.

I think this cements the image of you not even understanding Economics 101.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.