So please explain how a digital download is a public performance.
You’d have to have a digital tap direct to the brain to even give you a chance of appreciating a digital download as a “performance”. Eventually we’ll have that but you won’t like it.
If it were private, you wouldn't know about it. Right?
Duh.
Any person who creates anything is entitled to copyright protection for some period of years. Arguing that:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;doesn't apply to "digital downloads" is akin to suggesting that the Constitution doesn't provide for an Air Force.
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