But it said Europian rights were expiaring...Does this mean that you can only sell this music in Europe? Or only music recorded in Europe? Anyone know how this works?
This applies to recordings made anywhere, hence Elvis (recorded in Memphis, TN). Technically, selling a legally-produced European CD of post-copyright Elvis in the U.S. would be piracy.
The RIAA seems to be worried less about lost U.S. sales from European imports than they are about lost European revenues by the major labels, which own the rights to entire artist catalogues, thanks to the contracts prevalent at the time which make the contracts that Courtney Love, et al. complain about now look like they're written with hearts over the "i"s and rainbows and unicorns in the margins.
This summary is out of date. It's a summary as of when the bill was introduced (10/20/99), and the bill has been completely rewritten (everything past the enabling clause was thrown out and redone) since that point.
Don't base your opinion of the bill on this summary.
Forging headers/contact info on commercial e-mail is illegal. Noncommercial e-mail is not affected.
Using somebody else's mail server to send commercial e-mail without their permission is illegal.
"E-mail service providers" can post a policy, either on their Web page or in the SMTP banner, as to whether or not they allow spam to be sent
to their users. Violators of the policy can be sued by the ISP for $500/message.
Commercial e-mails must be identified as such with "ADV:" in the subject line.
End-users may sue spammers for $500/message if the spammer does not honor "do not mail me" requests.
The Federal Trade Commission has the power to go after unrepentant spammers.
More info is available on the Web sites of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (CAUCE, www.cauce.org) and the SueSpammers Project (www.suespammers.org).
The "bigger" Linux gets, the more people coding fun and/or useful tools to use. The "bigger" Linux gets, the more companies paying people to sit and hack Linux, either on the kernel or on apps. The "bigger" Linux gets, the more chance that you'll get Linux-based hardware (such as Cobalt RaQs and, to a lesser extent, Crusoe) available for purchase and potential customization. Sure, there's a lot of lemming-like people running around right now investing in any company that issues a press release with "Linux" in the headline, but occasionally one of those companies creates something cool and/or worthwhile, or kicks some worthwhile code or service back into the community. That's a function of Linux's "bigness", and it's nothing to sneeze at. Will Linux go away once it's on longer the Next Big Thing? Of course not, but don't forget that these Linux IPOs do have an upside for the whole community.
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But it said Europian rights were expiaring...Does this mean that you can only sell this music in Europe? Or only music recorded in Europe? Anyone know how this works?
This applies to recordings made anywhere, hence Elvis (recorded in Memphis, TN). Technically, selling a legally-produced European CD of post-copyright Elvis in the U.S. would be piracy.
The RIAA seems to be worried less about lost U.S. sales from European imports than they are about lost European revenues by the major labels, which own the rights to entire artist catalogues, thanks to the contracts prevalent at the time which make the contracts that Courtney Love, et al. complain about now look like they're written with hearts over the "i"s and rainbows and unicorns in the margins.
Don't base your opinion of the bill on this summary.
John Mozena
moz@cauce.org
More info is available on the Web sites of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (CAUCE, www.cauce.org) and the SueSpammers Project (www.suespammers.org).
John Mozena
moz@cauce.org
The "bigger" Linux gets, the more people coding fun and/or useful tools to use. The "bigger" Linux gets, the more companies paying people to sit and hack Linux, either on the kernel or on apps. The "bigger" Linux gets, the more chance that you'll get Linux-based hardware (such as Cobalt RaQs and, to a lesser extent, Crusoe) available for purchase and potential customization. Sure, there's a lot of lemming-like people running around right now investing in any company that issues a press release with "Linux" in the headline, but occasionally one of those companies creates something cool and/or worthwhile, or kicks some worthwhile code or service back into the community. That's a function of Linux's "bigness", and it's nothing to sneeze at. Will Linux go away once it's on longer the Next Big Thing? Of course not, but don't forget that these Linux IPOs do have an upside for the whole community.