14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
5:09 a.m.
On 02/13/2013 02:26 PM, drew Roberts wrote:
Yes, that's a safe, and correct, assumption!!! Dang it!
I would have to research Dickens' works, but I know that at one time,
copyrights were issued for a fixed term of years (17 comes to mind), and
could be renewed once. Then the laws were changed so that a copyright
was good for some number of years after an author's death.
They probably buy from the pirates for the reasons I stated, plus the
fact that the pirates sell their pirated DVDs for $5. Everyone claims
to love a particular band and their music, but nobody considers that by
buying the pirated DVD or CD, they are denying their "favorite artist"
whatever income they should have gotten from the sale of that CD/DVD.
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Well, the Pengiun folks are breaking a law, since
the things they copy
are public domain.
Is it safe to assume that that is a typo and you meant they are
not breaking
the law since those works are in the public domain?
They are not
infringing any copyrights, and are not
making use of someone's property illegally.
When did the book go from being
the property of Dickens or his heirs to being
the property of the public? Does a bit of land work that way? Or a sofa?
How can the Penguin folks make money printing and
selling these books when any
other company anywhere in the world can do the same without paying them a
fee?
Maybe there's not a market for it, since the material is available for free.
From what
I've seen, people buy pirated DVDs because they either don't
have a DVD burner, or they believe that it is safer to buy it for cash
at some flea market where there is no paper trail leading to them.
So, why do they
buy from the people who do not support the artists they like
rather then from the people who do support the artists they like? What drives
them to do this to bands they love?