As I see copyright it should be for giving credit to the creator. What I mean is, so someone can't come along and say they took the picture when you did. This is what copyright should be and only be. In Spain this is how copyright is looked at.
What do you anti piracy people have to say about part of this article on the British RIAA equivalent
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But going after children isn’t exclusively an MPLC tactic, the PRS are doing it too. Part of the claim against the tea-rooms mentioned above was that the kids there needed to be licensed to sing carols in front of the public and now, to add insult to injury, the PRS ‘non-profit’ copyright cop is going after a kid’s non-profit community center in Glasgow, Scotland. The Yoker Resource Centre is faced with a £3,000 bill, it if wants to carry on using its TV, radio or CD player, that is.
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http://torrentfreak.com/uk-copyright...enters-081015/
These lobby groups are targeting charities that have little money. On top of that many of these cases come from playing a radio to people who don't own the radio. Radios pay royalties why should people pay twice to listen to listen to a song. The artist already got paid.
Same is true for a CD player or TV the artist got paid already for their work why should people pay twice. If I buy a CD I should be able to do what I want with it I paid money for it. Example, if I buy a loaf of bread and give it out for free, and the baker tries to come around and collect money from everyone eating the bread nobody would listen to the baker. It is an absurd thing of the baker to do,
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“I’ll say it for the hundredth time: If I buy a book and read it, and then give you the book to read, I have broken no laws. Why is that not true for all media?” - Michael Moore
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The current era of intellectual property is waning. It has been based on two faulty assumptions made nearly three decades ago: that since some intellectual property (IP) is good, more must be better; and that IP is about controlling knowledge rather than sharing it. These assumptions are as inaccurate in biotechnology , the field of science covered by this report , as they are in other fields from music to software.
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http://torrentfreak.com/study-says-i...ld-die-080911/
This act will go beyond music and this article covers the IP beyond media.
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Slipknot vocalist and frontman Corey Taylor has launched an attack on recording labels, saying that instead of spending their time chasing downloaders, they should use their resources to find bands that produce better music.
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http://torrentfreak.com/slipknot-fro...piracy-080910/
Even big name artist support downloading of music.
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The statistics behind the pay-what-you-like release of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' album, released on October 10 last year online, have been revealed today (October 15).
According to reports most fans chose to pay nothing to download the album. However, it still generated more money before it was physically released (on December 31) than the total money generated by sales of the band's previous album, 2003's 'Hail To The Thief'.
According to Music Ally, Jane Dyball, head of business affairs at Warner Chappell (the publishing company that oversaw the release of 'In Rainbows'), refused to reveal the average price people were downloading the album for.
However, Dyball, set to speak about the release at the Iceland Airwaves conference later, explained that Warner Chappell and Radiohead's management were monitoring the average price daily, and was prepared to cancel the download facility if the average price became too low.
The download facility was taken down after three months, and the album went to Number One in the UK and USA after being physically released.
Statistics revealed that most fans downloaded the album through file-sharing service BitTorrent, but that this had been anticipated before the release.
The band sold 100,000 copies of the 'In Rainbows' box set, which contained extra songs not available on the standard download or CD release.
Warner Chappell concluded that the new release style was a financial success, but did not reveal whether Radiohead plan to release an album in a similar way in the future.]
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http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/40444
They seem to make money off free downloads?
Small time artist should embrace free downloading to get a larger fan base. Who can complain more fans is bad. More fans = more tours = merch sales = money.
Also the amount of time a recording staying in copyright is bullshit. The artist should plan like anyone else for retirement. Why should they get money once they stop working? In the new age it should be if they want more money when they are old they should have toured more when they were young.