From d4f23627208968702701717a3ea1820203866f9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:13:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add hopefully last index entry in the 'A' block. :) --- freeculture.xml | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 3e9c3c8..668e7f4 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -2801,6 +2801,10 @@ paper saying he and his family were bankrupt. So Jesse faced a mafia-like choice: $250,000 and a chance at winning, or $12,000 and a settlement. + +artists +recording industry payments to + The recording industry insists this is a matter of law and morality. Let's put the law aside for a moment and think about the morality. @@ -3149,6 +3153,10 @@ creative work, the record producers, and the public, benefit.
Radio + + artists + recording industry payments to + Radio was also born of piracy. @@ -3223,6 +3231,7 @@ ordinarily gives the creator the right to make this choice. By making the choice for him or her, the law gives the radio station the right to take something for nothing. +
Cable TV @@ -4062,6 +4071,10 @@ technology. In this adjustment, the law sought to ensure the legitimate rights of creators while protecting innovation. Sometimes this has meant more rights for creators. Sometimes less. + + artists + recording industry payments to + So, as we've seen, when mechanical reproduction threatened the interests of composers, Congress balanced the rights of composers @@ -9560,6 +9573,10 @@ available at But there is one example that captures the flavor of them all. This is the story of the demise of Internet radio. + + artists + recording industry payments to + @@ -9657,6 +9674,10 @@ those imposed by the law. Copyright law is one such law. So the first question we should ask is, what copyright rules would govern Internet radio? + + artists + recording industry payments to + But here the power of the lobbyists is reversed. Internet radio is a new industry. The recording artists, on the other hand, have a very @@ -9703,6 +9724,7 @@ interests, that could have been done in a media-neutral way. A regular radio station broadcasting the same content would pay no equivalent fee. + The burden is not financial only. Under the original rules that were proposed, an Internet radio station (but not a terrestrial radio @@ -9826,6 +9848,10 @@ that should establish the market rate, and if you set the rate so high, you're going to drive the small webcasters out of business. … + + artists + recording industry payments to + And the RIAA experts said, Well, we don't really model this as an industry with thousands of webcasters, we think it should be @@ -14339,6 +14365,10 @@ The idea would be a modification of a proposal that has been floated by Harvard law professor William Fisher. + + artists + recording industry payments to + William Fisher, Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities (last revised: 10 October 2000), available at link #77; William @@ -14375,6 +14405,7 @@ debate by about a decade. See Fisher, William Netanel, Neil Weinstock Promises to Keep (Fisher) + Fisher suggests a very clever way around the current impasse of the Internet. Under his plan, all content capable of digital transmission @@ -14402,6 +14433,10 @@ longer necessary, then the system could lapse into the old system of controlling access. Promises to Keep (Fisher) + + artists + recording industry payments to + Fisher would balk at the idea of allowing the system to lapse. His aim is not just to ensure that artists are paid, but also to ensure that -- 2.51.0