[BC] Copyright and royalties

[Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis]

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.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike McCarthy" <Towers at mre.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Copyright and royalties


> Yes, because it's a change in medium.
>
> MM
>
> At 09:57 AM 11/18/2005 -0700, Rockwell Smith wrote
>>I have often pondered this question...  I own an old record, and it is
>>scratched or otherwise in less than perfect condition.  So, I download a
>>clean copy of the same song. Is that download in violation of copyright or
>>royalty laws?
>>
>>-- Rockwell
>>
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