Re: [microsound] copyright or wrong?

[Patrick Norris <untitledartist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wasn't actually talking about politics..It was just a mental picture I had 
of a possible scenario in which the copyright war got out of hand.  In 
short..I was working my imagination a little. I thought it made for an 
interesting freedom fighter dj type character...and will probably find its 
way into my visual art.

That said..I have no opinion on politics that won't just anger everybody and 
have learned to keep these views to myself.

P


> No particular friend of the Bush Administration, and definitely not trying 
> to start a political argument, but a quick search for campaign donations at 
> opensecrets.org shows that the RIAA has contributed just as much to the 
> Democrats as to the Republicans (more in most years).  RIAA's assault on 
> Napster and other alternate distribution models started very much during 
> the Clinton Administration.  The Copyright Extension Act (aka the Bono Act) 
> was introduced in 1997 and signed into law by Clinton in 1998.  The case 
> against it was originally Eldred v. Reno, and only became Eldred v. 
> Ashcroft after the US  got a new attorney general (the attorney general is 
> the office named in the suit).
>
> In other words, don't believe for an instant that things in this area will 
> improve when Bush leaves office, or were better before he got here.
>
> On Feb 4, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Patrick Norris wrote:
>
> > I'm imagining a Bush Administration type all out assault...with some 
> > highly creative name like "the war on copyright infringement"
>
> ---
> Caleb Deupree
> ctdeupree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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