Michael Jardeen: ...face the musicfeeling screwed by the music industry? <br>...get in line, they screw everyone...(Untitled)- January 16, 2003 Disney, Eldred, Fair Use, and Mr. Valenti The bigger problem that Eldred exposes, is that the entertainment industry is hard at work making sure that you do not have fair use. Fair use will be whatever the copyright holder chooses it to be. As an example the copyright holder, could decide that they are willing to give you full use, or they could encode it that after one copy is made you no longer have the ability to copy the material, or perhaps no copy priviledge at all. In other words, you...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/faceTheMusic/2003/01/16.html#a721 (Untitled)- January 16, 2003 Disney wins...boo hiss! I will not rehash it all. You can find links to much of the information and commentary. I will say that this is a sad day for Public Domain, and a happy day for large corporations who want unlimited copyright. It also may be the event that starts to motivate epople to look at the larger issues...mjhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100258/categories/faceTheMusic/2003/01/15.html#a720 |