Klarinet Archive - Posting 000135.txt from 2010/07

From: "charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:50:17 -0400

On 7/8/2010 11:36 AM, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 06:22 PM, charette@-----.org wrote:
>> I was wondering where everyone else was when I was donating funds&
>> writing letters to Congress to try& keep the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term
>> Extension Act" (Mickey Mouse Protection Act) from being passed.
>>
>> Talk is cheap.
> Can't help you there, Mark. Congress doesn't listen to people who don't
> have a vote. :-(
Oh really? Money works wonders in politics regardless of the source, and
the copyright laws of the US now very closely align with Berne & WIPO. I
would rather they didn't align so well ... The old way of registering &
extending made more sense "for the common good' in my estimation, and
now that record keeping is generally easier, finding works that have not
been renewed would be significantly easier.

But the world's publishers, authors, authors' estates, government
authorities, etc. disagree with me, and few interested parties on the
other side put their letter writing abilities, media connections, or
money into opposing this bloc. They'd rather complain after the fact.

Stallman is to copyright as Kevorkian is to right-to-die. Both are the
wrong people to champion complex (and difficult) ideas.

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