"CD's, vinyl records, audio cassette tapes, video cassette tapes, mini-discs, DVD's, and other formats that may arise in the future"
That's the rule
but a powerful artist with a good agent can always look at that and say "ok, strike this, and this, and this, and you've got a deal" so in the end only certain mediums are covered.
And that's the exception. The number of artists powerful enough to keep the rights for some media -- even uninvented ones -- can probably be counted on one hand (excluding those bands who the majors allow to run their own labels).
that in specific cases they might
Yeah, they might. But if they did, that wouldn't really be "defying Sony" now, would it.
What if they signed the contract in the 80's or early 90's before the internet became a way to sell music
Standard music contracts are not prescriptive about what they cover. They don't, except in the weirdest circumstances, explicitly enumerate the media and distribution channels covered, but just include some boilerplate text about universal rights in all markets. By and large, the major record companies have the upper hand, and they don't tend to voluntarily choose to limit how much of your ass they own.
Do you really think a 70s band like Pink Floyd (for example) got all the rights to their recordings back just because CDs replaced vinyl, or compact cassettes replaced the 8 track?
'It is an individual's freedom where that person chooses to listen to music. I want to deliver my music wherever my listeners are,'
Yes, it is, initially.
But you sold away that right in exchange from a large advance from Sony. You can't have it both ways. You can have your freedom or you can take the corporate dollar.
Ironically, that's not even true of XP. I installed it scratch the other day, and it wouldn't even play VCDs, let alone a bunch of peculiar codecs hidden in AVI streams.
He argues that developing space weapons is a surefire way to launch a new space weapon race.
Well, duh. That's the point. Between Pork Barrel Politics, the "New World Order" and various facets of Dwight Eisenhower's good old fashioned Military Industrial Complex, the battlefield uses of new weapons systems (or even such minor concerns like whether they work a all *cough* SDI) are about sixth or seventh on the list of important criteria for defense spending.
Shopping must be anonymous. That's why I always go into my local store with a balaclava over my head. Anyone who doesn't is a slave to the corporate society, and insufficiently l33t.
How is it undemocratic if the ministers of the democratically elected governments
It's a fundamental principle of Parliamentary democracy that the Parliament has the final say in legislation. Now, that can either be the European Parliament, or individual Parliaments of sovereign nations, but Europe has never really benefited from ministers with executive legislative powers. Checks and balances are necessary.
And besides, the single most powerful group -- and the true villain in the patent business -- is not the Council of Ministers but the EU Commision, and that is not elected at all.
Our years-long fight has shown how undemocratic the EU is. It is a system in which bureaucrats can make decisions that, practically speaking, the public can never reverse.
Software patents aside, this is a really crucial point. Every anti-EU politician in Europe should be hammering on this point (using Software Patents as an example), and on the fact that corruption is so widespread that the EU's own auditors have refused to sign off on the accounts for year after year.
However, when people broadcast such information through my house like radio-waves (TV), why shouldn't I be able to use it?
If your neighbours forget to close the curtains, do you have a right to use read their credit card bills on their desk, using a high powered telescope? Do you then have a right to use the CC numbers? After all, all you've done is look at is rogue radiation floating through your airspace.
But why is the vast majority of modern porn so extreme? Because society has been so successful at pushing the "porn is bad" meme, that the vast majority of people who don't feel shame about getting their rocks of to porn are the raincoater brigade. Remove the stigma porn has with the mainstream, and the porn studios will start producing more more mainstream porn for the sexually liberated man and woman in the street.
I sort of agree with some of what you say. Porn is popular not only because it causes arousal, but provides a release for that arousal. (Sure, many couples use porn for arousal before sex, but most of the time the porn's there until the viewer [singular] needs that wet wipe.)
I'd assumed that TBS's editing was to protect impressionable minors, and I'd certainly suggest that the violence is more likely to impress upon them -- and in a more unpleasant way -- if only because the violence is a lengthy sequence and the breasts are fleeting. And in the young, de-sensitisation due to exposure to violence does increase the propensity or violence later in life; the link between porn and sex is less relevant (consensual adult sex being a much better thing than adult violence), and the link between porn and non-consenual has never been established.
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Do you really think a 70s band like Pink Floyd (for example) got all the rights to their recordings back just because CDs replaced vinyl, or compact cassettes replaced the 8 track?
Why would Sony give money to a recording artist if not for the rights to the recordings?
But you sold away that right in exchange from a large advance from Sony. You can't have it both ways. You can have your freedom or you can take the corporate dollar.
When you sup with the devil, use a long spoon.
More importantly: Is our children learning?
Shopping must be anonymous. That's why I always go into my local store with a balaclava over my head. Anyone who doesn't is a slave to the corporate society, and insufficiently l33t.
And besides, the single most powerful group -- and the true villain in the patent business -- is not the Council of Ministers but the EU Commision, and that is not elected at all.
But why is the vast majority of modern porn so extreme? Because society has been so successful at pushing the "porn is bad" meme, that the vast majority of people who don't feel shame about getting their rocks of to porn are the raincoater brigade. Remove the stigma porn has with the mainstream, and the porn studios will start producing more more mainstream porn for the sexually liberated man and woman in the street.
Precis : "Ever noticed how prolific kernel hackers get work hacking kernels?"
I sort of agree with some of what you say. Porn is popular not only because it causes arousal, but provides a release for that arousal. (Sure, many couples use porn for arousal before sex, but most of the time the porn's there until the viewer [singular] needs that wet wipe.)
I'd assumed that TBS's editing was to protect impressionable minors, and I'd certainly suggest that the violence is more likely to impress upon them -- and in a more unpleasant way -- if only because the violence is a lengthy sequence and the breasts are fleeting. And in the young, de-sensitisation due to exposure to violence does increase the propensity or violence later in life; the link between porn and sex is less relevant (consensual adult sex being a much better thing than adult violence), and the link between porn and non-consenual has never been established.
Oh, yeah, that was great too.
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I renounce Satan."