Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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This is a discussion that we should not even be having. If we wish to win the game against the RIAA and Copywrong laws, the best thing we can do is overthrow the hold that both have on us.
1. Don't purchase music that has any association with
RIAA.
2. Only purchase music from businesses and artists
who follow the licensing/copyright ideas found
here(http://creativecommons.org/).
One such example is Magnatune(www.magnatune.com)
From their information page:
1. all music should be shareware. Just as with software, you want to preview, evaluate, and pass along good music to others--in the process of buying it.
2.find a way of getting music from the musician to their audience that's inexpensive and supports musicians. Otherwise, musical diversity will continue to greatly suffer under the current system where only mega-hits make money.
3.musicians need to be in control and enjoy the process of having their music released. The systematic destruction of musician's lives is unacceptable: musicians are very close to staging a revolution (and some already have).
4.creativity needs to be encouraged: today's copyright system of "all rights reserved" is too strict. We support the Creative Commons "some rights reserved" system, which allows derivative works, sampling and no-cost non-commercial use.
Make your choice people.