By the producer I assum you mean the coporations with the capital to control the means of production. The works who produce and provice service make far, far less.
I doubt it. According to the New York TImes:
"Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in European Union countries, compared with 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America. So recordings made in the early- to mid-1950's -- by figures like Maria Callas, Elvis Presley and Ella Fitzgerald -- are entering the public domain in Europe, opening the way for any European recording company to release albums that had been owned exclusively by particular labels.
Although the distribution of such albums would be limited to Europe in theory, record-store chains and specialty outlets in the United States routinely stock foreign imports."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/world/companies-in-us-sing-blues-as-europe-reprises-50-s-hits.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Currently Amazon sells import CD's of music from Europe where copyright of recorded material expires after 50 years, in the US it is after 70 years. So Amazon is selling sets of great music (including recordings of Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, Johny Cash, Zoot Simms John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, etc) from the 50's made legally in Europe as public domain, but under copyright in the US.
If this studend is found guilty, it would seem Amazon must be also.
Check out this set of 8 Ellington albums for $15 http://www.amazon.com/8-Classic-Albums-Duke-Ellington/dp/B006UFCFBQ made in Europe, available for purchase in the US.
I don't want to pay for cloud storage or the bandwidth to stream (all phone data plans seem to be moving away from unlimited access).
I have a passion for music. I own over 1700 albums, I have them all scanned lossless flac format into a music server running Vortexbox which can stream to many devices in my home. I keep a 2TB backup drive that I can plug into my car stereo and my desktop at work. Network outages do not affect my music.
I also don't trust the owners of the rights to recordings will not change access cost or availability in the future. What I own physically, I own.
Clever of Apple to buy this technology to prevent it from landing on Android and other competitors' mobile platforms, which is where it was heading before Apple bought Siri.
You would never pay "away all your money towards taxes" - and contrary to popular belief, we have lower taxes now than we had for most of the 20th century.
It always pays you to make more money, you always retain most of it. Except in the case of tax credits, spending money just to write it off costs you money - since it only reduces your taxable income dollar for dollar but not taxes are only reduced to a lesser amount according to your effective tax rate.
What the write-off does is exclude your business expenses fro your taxable income.
I've been doing this for years. BCBS, at least in the state of Minnesota, offers family plans with large deductibles at fairly affordable rates.
Of course, with a $5,000 - $10,000 deductible, you're likely to never collect, however you do benefit from the negotiated rates that insurance companies have with service providers.
I choose the option that pays 100% after the deductible, figuring that if something catastrophic happens, I don't want to pay 20% of those huge bills for heart surgery, transplants, cancer treatment, etc.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
By his own logic, Google must be doing something wrong if they want to withhold information about whom they are hiring.
A tax credit for large vehicles was created in the mid-1980s to help farmers and small business owners purchase trucks and other large vehicles needed for hauling.
But anyone who is self-employed could apply for the credit and any vehicle weighing more than 6,000 pounds, including large SUVs and Hummers, which get 8 to 13 miles per gallon, could qualify. Originally the amount was $17,500. But soon the amount grew. As the tax credit limit has increased, so did the number of claims.
6 or 7 years ago congress passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offered a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase large vehicles.
Not all these vehicles purchase with with huge tax payers subsidy, can now be replaced with help from tax payers.
Both programs were bad ideas. The growth of the SUV market was largely due to these hand-outs. It also perverted the market and may be partially to blame for our auto industry failure.
Went to see it with spouse, son and daughter on Friday night at 10 pm. It was a much better film than I expected. Most of the audience seemed to be Star Trek fans, although most had not been born when TOS aired.
My wife and Daughter went to see Wolverine on Saturday. The main appeal: shirtless Huge, I mean Hugh Jackman.
The FCC also exempted fiber to the home (FTTH) and hybrid fiber coax (HFC) systems from unbundling requirements.
I am no supply-sider voodoo economist, but I think that building up new infrastructure using new technology should be exempt in order to encourage more investment. Competition in the local loop exists, especially in green field development but also overlaying the network.
Cheers, Don
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... stays in Neander Valley.
By the producer I assum you mean the coporations with the capital to control the means of production. The works who produce and provice service make far, far less.
I doubt it. According to the New York TImes: "Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in European Union countries, compared with 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America. So recordings made in the early- to mid-1950's -- by figures like Maria Callas, Elvis Presley and Ella Fitzgerald -- are entering the public domain in Europe, opening the way for any European recording company to release albums that had been owned exclusively by particular labels. Although the distribution of such albums would be limited to Europe in theory, record-store chains and specialty outlets in the United States routinely stock foreign imports." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/world/companies-in-us-sing-blues-as-europe-reprises-50-s-hits.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Currently Amazon sells import CD's of music from Europe where copyright of recorded material expires after 50 years, in the US it is after 70 years. So Amazon is selling sets of great music (including recordings of Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, Johny Cash, Zoot Simms John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, etc) from the 50's made legally in Europe as public domain, but under copyright in the US. If this studend is found guilty, it would seem Amazon must be also. Check out this set of 8 Ellington albums for $15 http://www.amazon.com/8-Classic-Albums-Duke-Ellington/dp/B006UFCFBQ made in Europe, available for purchase in the US.
but made for a woman
I don't want to pay for cloud storage or the bandwidth to stream (all phone data plans seem to be moving away from unlimited access). I have a passion for music. I own over 1700 albums, I have them all scanned lossless flac format into a music server running Vortexbox which can stream to many devices in my home. I keep a 2TB backup drive that I can plug into my car stereo and my desktop at work. Network outages do not affect my music. I also don't trust the owners of the rights to recordings will not change access cost or availability in the future. What I own physically, I own.
also designers and marketers and ...
Clever of Apple to buy this technology to prevent it from landing on Android and other competitors' mobile platforms, which is where it was heading before Apple bought Siri.
I suggest value has multiplied rather than decreased
Dennis Ritchie's original notebooks from Telephone Laboratories from 1969-1973 - when will they be put on-line?
You would never pay "away all your money towards taxes" - and contrary to popular belief, we have lower taxes now than we had for most of the 20th century. It always pays you to make more money, you always retain most of it. Except in the case of tax credits, spending money just to write it off costs you money - since it only reduces your taxable income dollar for dollar but not taxes are only reduced to a lesser amount according to your effective tax rate. What the write-off does is exclude your business expenses fro your taxable income.
on Beta!
sorry
I've been doing this for years. BCBS, at least in the state of Minnesota, offers family plans with large deductibles at fairly affordable rates. Of course, with a $5,000 - $10,000 deductible, you're likely to never collect, however you do benefit from the negotiated rates that insurance companies have with service providers. I choose the option that pays 100% after the deductible, figuring that if something catastrophic happens, I don't want to pay 20% of those huge bills for heart surgery, transplants, cancer treatment, etc.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. By his own logic, Google must be doing something wrong if they want to withhold information about whom they are hiring.
A tax credit for large vehicles was created in the mid-1980s to help farmers and small business owners purchase trucks and other large vehicles needed for hauling. But anyone who is self-employed could apply for the credit and any vehicle weighing more than 6,000 pounds, including large SUVs and Hummers, which get 8 to 13 miles per gallon, could qualify. Originally the amount was $17,500. But soon the amount grew. As the tax credit limit has increased, so did the number of claims.
6 or 7 years ago congress passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offered a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase large vehicles.
Not all these vehicles purchase with with huge tax payers subsidy, can now be replaced with help from tax payers.
Both programs were bad ideas. The growth of the SUV market was largely due to these hand-outs. It also perverted the market and may be partially to blame for our auto industry failure.
fast or Java?
Now the middle-age spread had been proven to be not only normal, but beneficial. Junk food science has a couple good articles on this study: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/06/even-obesity-paradoxes-cant-excuse.html and http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/06/paradoxes-compel-us-to-think-part-two.html
Went to see it with spouse, son and daughter on Friday night at 10 pm. It was a much better film than I expected. Most of the audience seemed to be Star Trek fans, although most had not been born when TOS aired. My wife and Daughter went to see Wolverine on Saturday. The main appeal: shirtless Huge, I mean Hugh Jackman.
I bet $700 billion from the US treasury would keep this vital pipeline in the US music supply flowing to main street
The FCC also exempted fiber to the home (FTTH) and hybrid fiber coax (HFC) systems from unbundling requirements. I am no supply-sider voodoo economist, but I think that building up new infrastructure using new technology should be exempt in order to encourage more investment. Competition in the local loop exists, especially in green field development but also overlaying the network. Cheers, Don