I was so incensed by this woman's essay that I sent her a polite but firm e-mail a couple of weeks ago that American Jazz and Country music would have never gotten off the ground if today's draconian copyright laws were in place in the 30s. The reasoning is that both Country and Jazz music are based on modifying previous songs (in the case of country/bluegrass old Irish tunes, with Jazz popular song), and that the starving artists who invented these genres could have never afforded licensing fees to purchase the right to the original songs they modified. I also pointed out that draconian copyright law has negative impacts on today's genres of music ranging from hip-hop to avant-garde collage music like John Oswald's Plunderphonics or Negativland's political aural collages.
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So don't just bitch on Slashdot when you see these articles politely and firmly tell the authors when their arguments are wrong. Don't forget correct spelling and grammar.