In a message dated 6/25/2010 3:55:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 17peters@cardinalmail.cua.edu writes:
Do I have to request your termination for abuse of this list? >>
Why do I envision the Red Queen and the White Queen when I read that remark?
David Gerard cut off your own head! Do it immediately!
But on a lighter note. Whether or not the owner/author/creator/inventor of CC advocates piracy or doesn't, is not material at all to what the *contributors* to CC are actually doing.
As far as "music lyrics", since when can you actually buy the lyrics to any piece of music, anywhere, ever, at any time, whatsover?
You BUY sheet music, or a song book, or a performance. I've never, in my entire life, seen "lyrics" for sale by themself. So please provide a place where they are. Otherwise you cannot protect the profit from something from which there is no profit and was never intended to be.
Next caller!
Will "the slammer" Johnson
Dear WJhonson,
Lyrics are sometimes included on disk jackets, album covers, etc.
Just because something is not accessible does not mean people have the right to pirate them, reproduce them, etc. Instead, the rarity of a material would make it even more legitimate to enforce the copyright.
The lyrics are copyrighted. And you can copyright something and intend not to sell or distribute it, and you have the right to keep others from profiting off of it. Otherwise, authors and artists would have no ability to protect unreleased material, which is insane.
Sincerely, Jeffrey Peters aka Ottava Rima
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:18 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/25/2010 3:55:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 17peters@cardinalmail.cua.edu writes:
Do I have to request your termination for abuse of this list? >>
Why do I envision the Red Queen and the White Queen when I read that remark?
David Gerard cut off your own head! Do it immediately!
But on a lighter note. Whether or not the owner/author/creator/inventor of CC advocates piracy or doesn't, is not material at all to what the *contributors* to CC are actually doing.
As far as "music lyrics", since when can you actually buy the lyrics to any piece of music, anywhere, ever, at any time, whatsover?
You BUY sheet music, or a song book, or a performance. I've never, in my entire life, seen "lyrics" for sale by themself. So please provide a place where they are. Otherwise you cannot protect the profit from something from which there is no profit and was never intended to be.
Next caller!
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I can think of an example where someone had to buy lyrics: When the creators of the Eyes on The Prize civil rights documentary wanted to republish their documentary on DVD so that a new generation of people could see how institutionalized racism was overcome through decades of bloody struggle, Warner Music demanded that they pay $10,000 for the right to use a clip of people singing Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King Jr on his birthday since Warner owned the lyrics to Happy Birthday. This delayed the republishing of the documentary for years. Fortunately, the Ford Foundation donated the money so that Warner Brothers could be properly paid and wouldn't have to resort to begging for change on the street corner.
Ryan Kaldari
On 6/25/10 4:18 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/25/2010 3:55:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 17peters@cardinalmail.cua.edu writes:
Do I have to request your termination for abuse of this list?>>
Why do I envision the Red Queen and the White Queen when I read that remark?
David Gerard cut off your own head! Do it immediately!
But on a lighter note. Whether or not the owner/author/creator/inventor of CC advocates piracy or doesn't, is not material at all to what the *contributors* to CC are actually doing.
As far as "music lyrics", since when can you actually buy the lyrics to any piece of music, anywhere, ever, at any time, whatsover?
You BUY sheet music, or a song book, or a performance. I've never, in my entire life, seen "lyrics" for sale by themself. So please provide a place where they are. Otherwise you cannot protect the profit from something from which there is no profit and was never intended to be.
Next caller!
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