On May 31, 9:03 pm, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
> > When children are not permitted in schools to sing a popular tune
> > for a talent show, girl scouts are not allowed to sing a popular
> > song around a camp fire, and someone with a guitar is not allowed
> > to strum and sing to a popular tune in a gathering larger than a
> > family is simply abuse.
>
> They are allowed, though they might have to pay first.
>
> > Particularly if a song sounds similar to
> > a professional artist although original and is told to remove it
> > from a non-profit (or profit) blog is abuse. The whole industry
> > has simply gone mad.
>
> Then starting tomorrow you should announce to your employer that you'll be
> working for free from now on. You will, right? Or are you just "mad"?
>
> Copyrighted songs and software and movies are ideas and expressions of ideas
> and are the private property of the creator. Sure, it's politically
> incorrect and unseemly to force Girl Scouts to pay for licenses to sing
> copyrighted songs at their camps, but it's not immoral or illegal. My guess
> is the problem ASCAP has with giving them exceptions - which they did,
> you're uninformed as usual - is it invites legal challenges from other
> groups who claim they should be excepted as well.
Oh, hog generous! ASCAP gave them a pass. Most likely the Boy Scouts
as well.
So DFS, does this mean that generally, you're OK with the idea that
girls singing to themselves around a campfire can be copyright
pirates?
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