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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?"
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Making all his UNIX plans
For nobody.
Knows the blocksize from du(1)
Cares not where
Isn't he a bit like you
And me?
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UNIX Man
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Uses lex and yacc and C
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UNIX Man
The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans For nobody
Making all his UNIX plans For nobody.
Wonder how long it will be before you have to register each sale of a CD so that they can be traced.
I hope you gun control people are happy, nice precedent you set.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Jon Barrett wants royalties for his used SPOOGE, every time it's transferred from Spain to another country.
>The reason why this is important is spelled out
>in Jefferson's own writings:
Isn't too bad the governing documents themselves couldn't be written in plain enough English that the meaning wasn't lost on contemporary lawmakers (and Citizens?)
It would have been quite helpful if the wording weren't so vague that there is room to wonder whether copyright was allowed to be extended indefinitely, or whether the reason to keep and bear arms was for Americans to eventually use them against the Federal government when that government started acting outside its Constitutional limits?
Instead, the clauses read almost as if they were intended to confuse the original adopters and trick them into creating a constitution that would never have passed if the original Congress really understood.
Unfortunately for the world, the private musings of Jefferson and Paine are not the documents under which the governemnt operates.
It does not make a bit of difference whether or not Jefferson would approve. His supposedly ideal Constitution is vaguely enough worded to cause great confusion as to its meaning today, when it really matters.
Just out of curiosity, how many copyrighted works were published in 1789? In 1989? How many will be published in 2009?