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Copyright system is absurd

posted 14 years ago by ppmoore
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If I make a copy of a recipe using a copier I'm breaking the law.
If I alter anything in the recipe and even publish the new mix, that's legal.

A friend of mine runs a restaurant, where he lives overhead on the same premises. It was summertime, and he was playing the radio with the window open, and which the customers downstairs were able to hear. When inspected, he was told to stop playing the radio because he was infringing on broadcast copyright, which only granted him the right to listen to broadcasts for his own use. He ended up shutting the window.

[–] dioro 13 years ago

Remember the olden days when record companies used to pay people to play their music?

[–] Dream_Demon 13 years ago

Even before seeing this film an hour ago, I thought that the copyright system was absurd. This film strengthens my opinion.

Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger

[–] BKinzeys 13 years ago

Absurd until you own the copyright.

It is a good documentary to talk about the excesses but it is one sided. At least they stated it was one sided in the beginning.

BTW, if you buy a cookbook and copy a recipe that's not breaking the law. When you give that recipe to other people then you are breaking the law.

So, if you wrote a cookbook and somebody bought it and began sending those recipes to other people would it bother you?

[–] oft_I_am 12 years ago

Absurd until you own the copyright.

Kind of an idiotic statement to make, considering people managed to do quite fine when copyright was only 14 years long.

This isn't about profit anymore. It is about control. Which the doc made abundantly clear throughout. Record and film companies are making absurd amounts of money, even with piracy being as rampart as it is, and still they try their best to screw us, the common people.

F_ck every last one of them.

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