13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
12:36 a.m.
On 02/12/2013 11:46 AM, drew Roberts wrote:
Perhaps the composer IS making copies and selling them. That is his
right, since he owns the copyright. Or perhaps he ISN'T, because he has
decided for whatever personal reason that he doesn't want the work 'out
there.'
Explain who either of these situations would give YOU the right to make
copies of someone else's work and sell them.
It's a necessary consequence of
Kinsella's argument that some idiot with a
DVD burner can spend a few hours copying content he didn't create, and he
has exercised his inviolable property right while the people who made that
profit possible -- on the basis of years of training and practice -- are
screwed.
Please explain why they are so *ignorant* as to not make those copies
themselves and sell them?
There is a world of material out there that it is
legal to copy and sell. How
many do it? Why don't you if it is so easy to make money that way?
It's hardly easy to make money by SELLING what is available for FREE.
Sure, it happens. There are a few places on the internet where you can
pay to download something (like an owner's manual) that is available FOR
FREE on the manufacturer's website. Since the manufacturer in this case
makes it available for free, they aren't really ripping off the
manufacturer, but I'd say they are ripping off the consumer.
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