here is my reply to a thread about copyrights and royalties on broadcast.net listserv. I thought with all the discussion on here about BMI that i should post it here as well.....
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I think the problems today with copyright infringement is a direct result of
big corporations buying congress and getting ever longer extensions on
copyright. if it was still the origional 14 + 14 and not to exceed the
authors death, we would not be seeing anything even remotely near what is
going on today copyright infringement wise. Same thing with FM. during the
years that we had Class "D" Stations unlicensed broadcasting activity was no
near as bad as what we are seeing today. funny thing that unlicensed
broadcasting skyrocketed just two years after the FCC stopped issuing class
D licenses.
People are getting tired of a bought and paid for government, but the flip
side to this is that nobody seems to be willing to tell big government that
they don't like what they are seeing by writing to their elected officials,
voting them out, etc. they seem to just accept that it is what it is and
nothing can be done about it. just not true. blogs and ranting on the
internet can only go so far. people need to band together and stand up and
tell congress we don't like it, time for change. till this happens we will
have to live with our ever increasing loss of civil liberties.
This is just my opinion.
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<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr>
I think the problems today with copyright infringement is a direct result of
big corporations buying congress and getting ever longer extensions on
copyright. if it was still the origional 14 + 14 and not to exceed the
authors death, we would not be seeing anything even remotely near what is
going on today copyright infringement wise. Same thing with FM. during the
years that we had Class "D" Stations unlicensed broadcasting activity was no
near as bad as what we are seeing today. funny thing that unlicensed
broadcasting skyrocketed just two years after the FCC stopped issuing class
D licenses.
People are getting tired of a bought and paid for government, but the flip
side to this is that nobody seems to be willing to tell big government that
they don't like what they are seeing by writing to their elected officials,
voting them out, etc. they seem to just accept that it is what it is and
nothing can be done about it. just not true. blogs and ranting on the
internet can only go so far. people need to band together and stand up and
tell congress we don't like it, time for change. till this happens we will
have to live with our ever increasing loss of civil liberties.
This is just my opinion.
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