Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 2010/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sheet music copyright
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:33:20 -0400

At 09:02 AM 7/8/2010, you wrote:
>On 07/08/2010 04:50 AM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> > Which clearly protects the right of private property.
>
>Indeed. But the constitution does not recognize works of the mind as
>property in this sense.
>
>(Neither does the law, although the term "intellectual property"
>confuses things. That's why you have beautiful phrases in some law
>articles referring to judges or legal scholars bemoaning the fact that
>people do not understand that "intellectual property is not property".
>Lawyers and politicians do seem to like to dig themselves such holes:-)

This is, of course, silly quibbling. Lawyers and politicians have
little else to do with their time.

> > "Promote the general welfare" does not mean giving people everything for
> > free. That would be communism.
>
>Well, the problem of most self-proclaimed communist states is that they
>give people _some_ things for nothing and take away almost everything
>else in the process, personal freedom first and foremost ...

Communist countries give the people everything they
have. Unfortunately, under communism, that works out to be very little indeed.

>However, I would suggest that giving people things for free is in and of
>itself usually a good thing. It's when it starts having a negative
>impact that it becomes a source of concern.

When it is all free, there is no incentive for production. That IS
the negative impact.

Bill Hausmann

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

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