Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:04:25 -0400

At 03:57 AM 7/3/2010, you wrote:
>On 07/03/2010 03:01 AM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> >> What I loved about it was how it struck a beautiful balance between on
> >> the one hand recognizing that the natural state of creations of the mind
> >> is private -- they come from one head -- but that they are "rightfully
> >> yours" only while they remain inside your head: the moment they are
> >> shared with others, they become public.
> >
> > I think this is where you go astray. When a person holding a patent
> > manufactures an item based upon it, the fact that it is on the market
> > does not in any way affect the patent rights. Copyright works
> the same way.
>
>Of course, but that's the declaration of the law, a social and political
>construction, not the natural state of creative works.
>
>By the law -- not by nature -- your creations are "rightfully yours" and
>you have the right to determine (within some boundaries) who gets to use
>them and under what conditions.
>
>However, when it comes to thinking about _what the law should be_, we
>can't simply go by what the current law says. We have to factor the
>natural dynamics of information exchange into the process. The quote I
>can't remember is illustrative of the latter, not the former.

You can't change the law just because it has suddenly become
inconvenient. Your references to "natural law" are a cop-out and
invalid. Natural law says you own what is yours and can do with it
as YOU chose. Of course, that means if you CHOSE to give it away for
free, you can do so, and you might do that if you expect a payoff in
the long run. But no one else has the right to make that choice for you.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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