Klarinet Archive - Posting 000380.txt from 2009/01

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Copyright rant
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:27:20 -0500

Easy Kevin, easy....LOL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Fay [mailto:kevin.fay.home@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:53 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Copyright rant
>
> Alexander Brash posted:
>
> <<you're completely wrong, but I don't have the time to explain it
> right now
> - when I get some time on the airplane.>>>
>
> Really? I eagerly await your next airplane ride so that you can teach
> me
> about such things.
>
> You seem like such a bright lad, but part of being smart is knowing
> what you
> don't know - and you most definitely do not know squat about copyright
> law.
>
> Where exactly did you get your law degree? Has anyone ever paid you to
> write a copyright license, for music, software, architectural drawings,
> anything at all? I know you went to Harvard - you proclaim it on your
> eponymous web site. Funny how I couldn't find your listing in the Law
> School's alumni directory though.
>
> You'll find me there, LL.M class of 1988 (a proud classmate of Michele
> Obama, nee Robinson). That would be my second law degree - I earned
> the
> first one from SUNY in 1985. I've licensed some music copyrights, but
> a lot
> more small-dollar stuff like building designs, industrial plans and
> even a
> little software here and there. (Like those volume license agreements
> that
> Fortune-500 companies sign with a little company in Redmond - I wrote
> them,
> you see.)
>
> I've spent almost a quarter of a century writing and negotiating
> copyright
> licenses, among other things, and have made a rather tidy living at it.
> You, OTOH, have not been toilet trained that long.
>
> I hope the "consulting advice" you peddle off of your web site does not
> include the legality of derivative works. Aside from the unauthorized
> practice of law, it would be malpractice to boot.
>
> kjf
>
>
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