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

[drew Roberts]

On Friday 02 July 2010 04:21:18 Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Ideas shall be free and in music they are actually. Actual work shall be
> attributed and the person, who did the work shall get a
> compensation/reward for the work.

This is where it breaks down. You don't get paid for your work unless someone 
agrees to pay you.

Some people get hired to be a fisherman. Some people pay for the opportunity 
to go out  and fish. Some people just go out and fish. They may each put in 
the same number of hours in a day.

> "doing one thing for some time and having no time to do something else 
> in the same time".

But they don't each get paid. Some actually pay. Some get paid. With some, no 
money changes hands.

But, if you don't get hired to make music and ensure your pay before you make 
the music. You can make it and hold on to it yourself until you get paid. If 
it is difficult to do that, that is life in a free world. Asking for chains 
to be put upon everyone else to make this easier for a musician is asking too 
much. Especially when the chains already in place are so burdensome and yet 
still not good enough.

all the best,

drew