[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 07/01/2010 08:40 AM, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:30:49PM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
>
>    
>> But, the notion that discovering a gene (sequence) in an organism
>> could be patented is about as insane to me as to say that Columbus
>> should own the new world because he discovered it, even though some
>> would dispute that as well.
>>      
> Not Columbus of course, but his employer...
> Which is more or less what happened.
>    

Actually more or less what happened is that a group of people who saw 
something they wanted took it and didn't pay anything for that right to 
the people who claimed ownership of what was taken.

This systemic theft has been applied everywhere in the world so why 
should it be held back by a small group of Musicians wantign to protect 
their annual earnings? In fact to think that they can adjust this is 
pretty much the typical Muso dream of trying to change the world. Dreams 
of Musos are usually lofty goals but generally completely outside of reason.

Like healing the sick with their song or teaching the world how to be 
peaceful through beautiful music. A misplaced faith in the societal myth 
that is being constantly pushed in our faces about the world we live in 
and our ability to affect change for the better by working with the 
system not against it.


-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd