[linux-audio-user] so.... u wish to hear something completely horrible

[Rob]

On Wed August 16 2006 16:34, Lee Revell wrote:
> > It's true that copyright holders managed to get the laws
> > changed in most places to fit what they would like reality
> > to be, but reality remains unchanged.  Copying is still just
> > copying, not moving.
> By "managed to get the laws changed" are you referring to the
> US constitution?  English common law from the 18th century?
> Copyright didn't start with the DMCA you know...

I don't think that the DMCA has anything to do with sampling.  I 
suppose the crackdown on that over the last 20 years is really 
based on recent case law rather than any specific legislation. 

But in a broader sense, the 1976 and Sonny Bono acts, in addition 
to the DMCA, are what have most enabled the notion that a copy 
of an intangible good is equivalent to a tangible one.  
Certainly Bill Gates would have gotten nowhere without the 
former, and none of them would have been passed without a lot of 
lobbying by those who'd already made millions selling copies of 
intangible things before it was possible for anyone to make 
those copies.

Rob