Verily I say unto thee, that thufir spake thusly:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:28:06 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>> But you keep insisting that you should be able to take more than
>> you paid for. You paid for the right to attend personally one
>> show, and to perceive that show with your senses. Most artists are
>> willing to let you pay to record their show and distribute the
>> recordings, but they usually ask for more money for that.
But you mistakenly believe that this /other/ recording is something
extra that should deserve special consideration. Just by being present
and perceiving the event, I have therefore "recorded" it, and may
subsequently relay it through discussion or other means of expression.
Would that be a "copyright violation"? Am I supposed to have my mind
purged by electric probes before leaving that event, to ensure there are
no extraneous "copies" of it?
The fact that this "copy" may be less than perfect is irrelevant from
the perspective of copyright ... a copy is a copy no matter how
imperfect it is. Recall the recent case where Prince insisted that
YouTube remove a 30 second clip of a baby dancing to a barely
intelligible rendering of "Let's Go Crazy", which was playing on the
radio/tape in the background?
You assert that I am demanding "more than [I] paid for", but AFAIAC what
I /paid/ for was /labour/, not "rights" or "content". I paid my
contribution towards that labour, the artist performed, and I (and the
rest of the audience) watched and listened. Anything subsequent to that
is, and should remain, irrelevant to all parties concerned.
However the law does not currently see it that way. This is why I
contend that the law is wrong, and must be changed. No one should have
the right to claim exclusive ownership of /my/ perceptions, nor /my/
memories of those perceptions, regardless of what form or medium those
memories are retained in.
Knowledge; cognitive thought; perceptions and memories are not
"property", and should never have been considered as such by the law.
> Ahh, very well stated.
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