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

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 15.07.2010 20:00, schrieb Louigi Verona:
> Hartmut Noack said:
> "To completely abolish the concept of intellectual property (gee... I hate
> that corporatism the same as you do... ;-) ) will not work and will not
> help. All the problems, you have rightfully stated above ( musicians
> seldomly make any money in the given system etc) come from the
> implementation of the concept and from the economic system, that uses this
> concept and not from the concept itself."
>
> Perhaps. However, I observe that the whole concept of intellectual property
> and such utilitarian approach to art has its roots in today's western
> economic system. It could be that the change of the economic system and the
> resulting change of how people think would simply eliminate the concept of
> IP as we know it today.

As we know it today - in this I agree...

best regs,
HZN

> L.V.
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