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

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:57:23 -0400 drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote: We live in a largely fascist world. If they can get away with doing the above, then yes they will. Torture has been reestablished and made somewhat acceptable, at least in public commentary. If you look long and hard and honestly at man's history, we are going backwards in the grace and humility stakes. This abuse of fellow living beings (along with all the non-human types too) makes me want to abuse fellow human beings.... Here is my situation. I teach meditation using music. There are a number of songs and instrumental pieces by a few artists that I find particularly suitable. But I don't know where I stand with copy(spit)right. I would like to try teaching my method on-line in order to reach more people, but I would need to be able to broadcast publically this music to teach what I teach and I don't know where I stand on the copy(spit)-nonsense. I don't charge anything for what I do and I never will. I am disabled with arthritis but my basics are covered by living in the UK. In all this discussion, the system cannot be fixed because it is not broken. It is psychotic at its most fundamental level! Money is the manifestation of the problem. It is an attempt to accumulate energy (everything at its simple level reduces to Energy), when it is in Energy's nature to FLOW and do its work. ( I see all the disagreement about art and ownership and payment entirely because the capitalists are involved, who always exploit way beyond reasonableness, but that is its nature, to taint everything with its psychosis.) Please note I don't usually say anything although I do read the list regularly, as Patrick Sharkey tends to write my answers first and being a lazy git means I don't have to... ;) aaaaaaaaaaaargg thud! off me soapbox now. :) nepal. ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email