Re: [microsound] copyright or wrong?

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I'd like to check out Lessig's book. To your point about the RIAA and 
club-owners... what can the RIAA do? I mean what legal action could 
they possibly take? Club owners are not violating any copyrights, are 
they? Performance rights perhaps, but those are administered by ASCAP, 
BMI, SESAC, etc.



On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 08:31 AM, Kim Cascone wrote:

> > No one forces an artist to enforce the=20
> > copyright of their own works, so if you don't care, then it doesn't=20
> > matter. And if you use copyrighted material... you take your chances.
> this is assuming of course that the copyright is held directly by the 
> artist
> (which is not the case with most major label artists) and that the
> administering of their creative property is directly benefiting them 
> and not
> the major label...
> but sadly this is just not the case...most copyright law is put in 
> place to
> maximize profits for the major labels and not the artists...
> I highly recommend Lessig's book...it is an eye opening book...
>
>
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