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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The House of Representatives has combined the largely good Music Modernization Act with the CLASSICS Act, which would add new royalties and penalties to recordings made before 1972, without giving anything back to the public. That same mistake was replicated in the Senate with S. 2823.
The CLASSICS Act would extend federal copyright restrictions and penalties to sound recordings made between 1923 and 1972, making it so that songs recorded in that era would, for the first time, not be able to be streamed online without a license. Currently, various state laws govern this relationship, and those laws don't give record labels control over streaming.
The CLASSICS Act gives nothing back to the public. It doesn't increase access to pre-1972 recordings, which are already played regularly on Internet radio. And it doesn't let the public use these recordings without permission any sooner. While some recording artists and their heirs will receive money under the act, the main beneficiaries will be recording companies, who will control the use of classic recordings for another fifty years. Important recordings from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s won't enter the public domain until 2067. And users of recordings that are already over 90 years old will face the risk of federal copyright's massive, unpredictable penalties.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @06:16PM (17 children)
Instead of trying to get the Men with Guns to re-distribute the rights over someone else's work, how about you and your ilk try producing your own content according to the terms that you desire?
You want to use someone else's work? Get that person to agree; usually, money is persuasive.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @06:34PM (10 children)
I admire your pure stance wrt the right to someone else's work. Now stop using the Roman alphabet altogether until you get the Romans to agree. I am confident the world will not hear from you any longer. A win-win if you ask me.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @06:40PM (6 children)
As far as I can tell, they agree to my usage.
Certainly, there doesn't appear to be a good way for anyone to enforce a restriction of my usage; in contrast, the music industry has persuaded the Men with Guns to help them enforce their will.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @07:25PM (5 children)
No, the rightful author are ded, they cannot express agreement more than mr. John "Imagine there's no heaven so where the fuck am I" Lennon.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:29PM (4 children)
That's why clear rules of ownership and contractual obligation are so important as the foundation of a Free society.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @07:44PM (3 children)
The clear rules of ownership are muddied by copyright. It's one of the reason why your phone is not yours.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @08:00PM (2 children)
The rules for you using other people's work seems muddled to you, but it's not; you just don't like them.
What is clear is that you are free to make your own content and then apply whatever rules you want. Start building the world you want to see, rather than trying to deconstruct what others have built.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @08:33PM
LOL, an ad hominem to a bot. Shall we examine assertions instead?
Natural right: what goes into a meatbag's brain is HIS. He uses it for nefarious purposes? he goes to jail for it.
Copyright: EvilCorp PAYS DJs to have a song hammered into the brain of the defenseless youngsters, using side channels to paint it as hip, and profits on their needs to identify by acquiring the right to the song. In a LESS UNJUST system, if a piece of music is for pay, it should ALWAYS be for pay, not heard for free and ESPECIALLY not pushed.
Copyright: the PROs sometimes went after national anthems played in institutional settings.
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday August 03 2018, @09:30PM
And then do what when the incumbent claims that your work is too similar to their work?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @06:43PM (2 children)
01001111 01001011 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01110011 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101101 01100101
(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @07:33PM (1 child)
The Indians for the concept and the Arabs for the graphics of 1 and 0 would want a word with you, sir. Then of course you must channel the spirit of a couple mathematicians who came up with the binary system. Boole came later.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @08:13PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
Of course, that says nothing about the glyphs, but that's a whole 'nother rabbit hole.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday August 03 2018, @06:52PM (3 children)
When I do produce my own work, what steps should I take to ensure that my own work is actually original as opposed to being an inadvertent infringement of copyright in someone else's work?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:10PM (2 children)
They've developed all manner of systems for dealing with it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @07:55PM
But you will have to develop your own systems. Using theirs is infringing!
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday August 03 2018, @09:33PM
What systems might these be, specifically?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @10:42PM
This attempt to redistribute rights is being made by the Men with Guns.
Unfortunately for them, most people are more interested in distribution of content (which continues unabated) rather than rights.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:16AM
These are government-enforced monopolies over ideas in the first place, enforced by... Men with Guns. You're a piss-poor libertarian/anarchist/contracts troll.