[LAU] Changed: Copyright laws and such

Al Thompson althompson58 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 07:13:22 UTC 2013


On 02/15/2013 01:58 AM, Louigi Verona wrote:
>
> If we are in a position when such "courtesy" means saying "Can I
> please use your tune in my play?", we are philosophically saying that
> the author has the right to decide how you should employ your body and
> your property in a certain way. I maintain that by making up an idea,
> you do not now gain property rights in everything that uses that idea.

Here's where we differ.  You seem to claim that if *I* write a song on
my own, and *YOU* want to include that song in a play or movie, that if
I say "no," then I am deciding how you can use YOUR property.  This is
simply not true.  You can use your property any way you want, as long as
you don't kidnap MY property to do it.  And claiming that my refusal to
grant a mechanical license for my copyright work results in my somehow
deciding how you can use YOUR BODY is gibberish.

A LOT of the examples you complain about are actually ABUSE of
copyright, rather than a flaw in the concept of copyright.  It still
seems like you believe that if someone else writes a song, that you
honestly believe that you have superior rights over his property than he
does.

Each of us "owns" his own body.  By extension, we each "own" whatever we
produce out of thin air.  If you claim that you somehow have a right to
what I have produced, that would mean that you believe that you own me,
and I am reduced to a position of slavery.  Do you believe that you
would have a "right" to WHATEVER I produced?  Is there a limit??  Would
I have to ask you to please leave me enough of my labor so that I may
feed my family or buy new strings for my guitar, or will you provide
those, in order than I could continue to produce things which you would
claim to have a right to?


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