Re: [microsound] copyright or wrong?

[Caleb Deupree <ctdeupree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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"

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Caleb Deupree
ctdeupree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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