Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales

cuberat writes "In a continuing effort to maintain their image as evil incarnate, record companies are considering charging used CD retailers a royalty for every CD they resell. The story is in today's San Diego Union-Tribune here. When are these guys going to get a clue?"

Comments

Carried out to its logical conclusion...

[corebreech]

Any reproduction of a copyrighted-work will constitute grounds for civil suits with fines and lawyer fees and so on...

Why should it stop with pre-owned CD's? Aren't the lyrics copyrighted? Isn't the score for the music itself copyrighted?

What's to prevent their taking us to court for merely humming a copyrighted work?

The new big brother Mssrs. Ashcroft and Ridge are creating would excel at tuning in to our barely-audible humming of copyrighted works. With the right kind of software you'd get busted every time.

Indeed, with the advent of immersive virtual reality, where our every thought is analyzed for use as input, the mere recollection of more than three adjacent musical notes in a copyrighted work would spell disaster! It would constitute an unauthorized digital-reproduction of the artist's (read recording label's) property and immediately flagged as such.

And why should that stop with music? Literature, software, porn... it's hard to see how we would be able to get through a moment let alone a day without unlawfully summoning somebody else's intellectual property.

Copyright has to die.