tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post502177714864961993..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Businesses are Sued for Playing Copyrighted Music without Paying FeesRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-80057564318870746182016-06-24T15:52:09.190-04:002016-06-24T15:52:09.190-04:00Could Kareem Abdul Hagar have patented the slam du...Could Kareem Abdul Hagar have patented the slam dunk? Its a process/technique no different from making scotch or writing software. Could be have demanded a dime for every slam dunk performed by other athletes after he invented it? (maybe he didn't invent it, but whoever did, the question stands) How much would someone after to alter or improve kareem's original dunk to make it his ownDonxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16480364222848672992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-69131281873786845732016-06-23T20:29:02.434-04:002016-06-23T20:29:02.434-04:00Brutus - what you fail to understand is that the o...Brutus - what you fail to understand is that the organizations in the "music industry" do not want you or I or anyone else to be able to make culture, to be able to remix bits and come up with something new and unique unless they can strangle the shit out of it and wring every penny out of it for themselves. By strangling your attempts to express yourself they are trying to dominate theUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02861492435974111786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-31025143529990674022016-06-23T08:21:58.531-04:002016-06-23T08:21:58.531-04:00ATTENTION: All IP Commies: Address these logical...ATTENTION: All IP Commies: Address these logically or STFU. https://strangerousthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/the-economic-principles-of-intellectual-property-and-the-fallacies-of-intellectual-communism/<br /><br />Agreed though that copyright laws need revisited, and/or need to be universally (as opposed to in the case of this post, selectively) enforced.<br /><br />(Although the selective Dave Narbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773693145577366704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-53640570587815264682016-06-22T21:53:14.390-04:002016-06-22T21:53:14.390-04:00What if a contributor to this web site repeated so...What if a contributor to this web site repeated something he had heard.Haroldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14957331777793155656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-91843637233081713872016-06-22T21:43:37.925-04:002016-06-22T21:43:37.925-04:00I agree with this thought. I have heard covers, l...I agree with this thought. I have heard covers, looked up the originals and bought cds of the original artists. But artists are unique and don't have influences nor build on improvements and creations that came before ...sarcasm. This is the problem with IP, that things are created from "scratch" with no prior knowledge or discovery to lay the foundation. AJOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18199742607749169526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-57781649199888521452016-06-22T20:44:47.712-04:002016-06-22T20:44:47.712-04:00"With physical property there are definite qu..."With physical property there are definite quantitative ways to assess ownership of resources."<br /><br />You mean like:<br /><br />"That's mine!"<br /><br />"No it's not, it's mine!"<br /><br />"No, it's mine!"<br /><br />"It's not! It's mine!"<br /><br /><br />There's nothing inherent about tangible property that Pandemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315340208949970292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-12891620267263830942016-06-22T20:12:57.877-04:002016-06-22T20:12:57.877-04:00What if the music was from an over the air radio b...What if the music was from an over the air radio broadcast?JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87150161345080094992016-06-22T18:43:28.590-04:002016-06-22T18:43:28.590-04:00It's not irrelevant, it's the heart of the...It's not irrelevant, it's the heart of the IP debate. With physical property there are definite quantitative ways to assess ownership of resources. With IP the standards of ownership are completely arbitrary.Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10970586845001280417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-27422088369593367082016-06-22T18:08:39.564-04:002016-06-22T18:08:39.564-04:00Any chance their afection for the cash flow might ...Any chance their afection for the cash flow might inspire their ear to hear a false positive on this oh so rigorous test of yours?Donxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16480364222848672992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-50930853092431567342016-06-22T17:59:31.081-04:002016-06-22T17:59:31.081-04:00When someone says "I own this land." th...When someone says "I own this land." the obvious follow-up question is "Where is the boundary of your land?" No one would ever be accussed of being finicky he asked such a question and any property owner who could not give a precise and unambiguous answer would hurt his chances at enforcing his claim. So what exactly are they claiming to own? I am a musician. When I write Donxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16480364222848672992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-39274192200770841462016-06-22T14:34:25.823-04:002016-06-22T14:34:25.823-04:00Several writers are being very lawyerly about the ...Several writers are being very lawyerly about the minutiae of song changes. But one thing is certain. If they were receiving the royalties for "Margaritaville", I am sure they would know plagiarism when they heard it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-61353895888456679122016-06-22T12:23:37.915-04:002016-06-22T12:23:37.915-04:00Some of these kinds of issues were addressed in th...Some of these kinds of issues were addressed in the litigation initiated by musicians against "sampling" by Producers/DJs involved in rap music in the late 80s early 90s. One effect was that producers/DJs would have studio musicians replay a bassline and use that instead of using the actual snippet from a song. Instead of direct attribution, the song/music writing credits would say Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-77324630999241448752016-06-22T12:05:18.043-04:002016-06-22T12:05:18.043-04:00My youngest son plays the trumpet and he's req...My youngest son plays the trumpet and he's required to do a Christmas solo each year for his homeschool band. Last year's solo was "Happy Holidays". I PURCHASED a backtrack online, which roughly recreated the original backtrack, sans melody, from Andy William's version. My oldest son, going off to Berklee College of Music this fall, took the PURCHASED backtrack and changed Brutushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885083535036422093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-69504386179415857512016-06-22T11:46:09.145-04:002016-06-22T11:46:09.145-04:00While I totally agree with you, Robert, I do think...While I totally agree with you, Robert, I do think going after these establishments is stupid. The free advertisement of the songs probably sells a lot more of the musicians' products than they receive from the royalties. Not that BMI would care about that....Pandemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315340208949970292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-4837242622358762312016-06-22T11:17:22.710-04:002016-06-22T11:17:22.710-04:00As a former musical artist I would send in my set ...As a former musical artist I would send in my set list to SESAC after a performance and would receive royalties for the performance of my work, by me, at a SESAC licensed facility (the bar). It would only be $20 or so, but it was enough to buy guitar strings for the next show. The bar pays a licensing fee, and part of that money eventually made its way back to me.<br /><br />As for this guy: &Peter De Baetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897798280650546313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-50963150451253468632016-06-22T11:13:28.067-04:002016-06-22T11:13:28.067-04:00What is it about the songs that are proprietary? I...What is it about the songs that are proprietary? Is it the lyrics, or the combination of note? If I were to change one lyric to a song, would it be considered stealing? If I were to play the song with a different instrument, would it then be considered original? No ideas are created in a vacuum. They are all inspired in some way by the ideas of others. Where do you draw the line between Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10970586845001280417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-71431083219673427002016-06-22T10:30:01.091-04:002016-06-22T10:30:01.091-04:00What exactly does Jimmy buffet own? The chord seq...What exactly does Jimmy buffet own? The chord sequence? The melody? The words? The percussion groove? If any of the constituent parts are missing or altered,does he still own it? How different from the original recordings does a performance have to be to not be actionable? Are there any non-arbitrary definitions of what the song "is"? Suppose I sing Stairway to Heaven in Latin in a Donxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16480364222848672992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-64085929394223807192016-06-22T10:22:01.623-04:002016-06-22T10:22:01.623-04:00Bob,
You should be careful to be throwing stones ...Bob,<br /><br />You should be careful to be throwing stones here:<br /><br />"I consider it coercive and the utmost in arrogance for someone other than the creators of songs to think they should set the rules for use of songs over the rules set by the creators of the song."<br /><br />Rumor has it that you have been seen hanging out with a coercive, arrogant racist jazzman:<br /><br />Rick Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11751593125225334255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-53855969693465870082016-06-22T09:03:48.405-04:002016-06-22T09:03:48.405-04:00I believe the artists sign an agreement with BMI t...I believe the artists sign an agreement with BMI to act on their behalf, collecting royalties, etc.danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16662910528014065711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-14919257375510187972016-06-22T08:58:00.933-04:002016-06-22T08:58:00.933-04:00{..."In theory, the band is just as liable fo...{..."In theory, the band is just as liable for the copyright infringement," Comparetto said. "But the band's got no money."<br /><br />...One Tampa singer and songwriter, John Cena, has been in the industry for more than 30 years, but said he has never seen a dollar from a music-licensing company.<br /><br />"Only the artists at the top level are the ones that receiveBrutushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885083535036422093noreply@blogger.com