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RIAA's Rosen 'writing Iraq copyright laws'
The Register ^
| 29/04/2003 at 01:11 GMT
| Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted on 04/29/2003 1:30:26 PM PDT by Dominic Harr
Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, is helping draft copyright legislation for the New Iraq, according to investigative journalist Gregory Palast.
"Who's really going to win this war? It looks like Madonna," Palast told
Democracy Now radio. "Where before, they feared Saddam Hussein, now they have to fear Sony Records will chop off their hands if they bootleg a Madonna album."
Under Iraqi copyright legislation, passed by The Revolution Leadership Council in 1971, a copyright lapses 25 years after the death of the author, but no more then fifty years after the publication of the work. It's shorter for private works, and there are several public interest exemptions.
We wonder which member of The Revolution Leadership Council penned this, or whether someone wrote it for them, but the real author of this enlightened document ought to step forward. Maybe they could help liberate the USA - which extended copyright to seventy years after the author's death - from Hollywood.
(Do we sense a campaign coming on?)
But if true, and Palast has a good record for
trade politics, Rosen's dash for Baghdad isn't hard to explain.
Iraq does not have a reciprocal copyright agreement with the United States, which means that US works are not protected.
Hilary will almost certainly be setting to work on the current law's Article 13:- "The author may not prevent a person making one copy of a published work for his own use."
And she will want to stiffen the penalties for infringement:- one hundred dinars, or three hundred for repeat offenders. Maybe she will shoot for something closer to the $97 trillion the RIAA has claimed as damages from the file-sharing students back in the Homeland.
With the effective collapse of the UN's food program, it's nice to see Rosen's humanitarian impulses remain untarnished by war.
A month ago Congressman Darrell Issa (R., San Diego) introduced a bill ensuring that Qualcomm, based in his congressional district, be given a foothold in the New Iraq. Europe and the Middle East use the global GSM standard. ®
TOPICS: Technical
KEYWORDS: riaa; techindex
Getting out the popcorn . . .
Rosen is perhaps the 2nd most hated 'Hillary' on FR?
Well, there are a select few RIAA defenders . . .
To: *tech_index
Les Ping
To: Dominic Harr
So what about this claim that the occupying powers can not
change the laws or constitution of the country that they
occupy according to the Geneva convention.
Does this make Rosen guilt of War Crimes??? ;-)
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posted on
04/29/2003 1:36:31 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: Dominic Harr
Call me crazy but I think there are other areas of jurisprudence that the Iraqis could better use right now than copyright laws.
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posted on
04/29/2003 1:38:40 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: Dominic Harr
Rosen's first draft:
Article 1: We the People of the Iraq, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Iraq.
Article 2: Upon conviction or adjudication of guilt of a defendant of a capital felony involving the use of file-swapping conduits, the court shall conduct a separate sentencing proceeding to determine whether the defendant should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.
To: CaptRon
Actually, intellectual property rights are very important to establishing a rule of law and encouraging economic activity. Certainly, the rights of Iraqi ululators who wish to record their wailing seem trivial, but the underlying premise is crucial.
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posted on
04/29/2003 1:52:48 PM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
To: Mr. Bird
I'd argue that 'IP' laws are an impossible legal fiction that can not last.
'Ideas' are not property. Any more than 'slaves' were property.
I'd argue that 'minimum wage' laws are what is required for 'ideas'. A guarantee that you will get paid for use of the ideas.
Labeling 'ideas' as 'property' actually retards economic activity. Especially as the 'IP' time period approaches 'infinite'.
When a good new idea is 'owned' for 100+ years, then that means the vast majority of society can't use the new ideas.
To: Mr. Bird
Prove that assertion!
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posted on
04/29/2003 2:00:34 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Dominic Harr
I have no love for thieves, but have no love for Hitlery Rosen and Jackboot Valenti either.
Decent people always get caught in the middle.
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posted on
04/29/2003 2:08:38 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
To: CaptRon
LOL! Yeah, somehow I don't see high speed dubbing equipment high on thier list of 'wants' right now.
To: JoJo Gunn
Actually, 'copying' isn't 'stealing'.
If I go to your house, see a nice new chair you just built, and then go home and make an exact copy, I have not stolen from you.
'Illegal copying', yes.
But 'stealing' has an actual meaning, and this ain't that.
To: Dominic Harr
Good question.
Do I hate Clinton or Rosen more? That is a tough choice!
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posted on
04/29/2003 3:32:50 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel!)
To: Dominic Harr
That's the kind of argumental style a Leftist would use. ANYthing to rationalize theft.
Did you sweat for years to learn to play anything? Pay for the piano lessons? Pay your dues in smoky lounges and all night bus rides? The thousands upon thousands of dollars for time in a studio, or for equipment for your own in the basement (plus the time to learn to use it)? The price of the obligatory video? The percentages towards agents and club owners?
The music ain't yours, and your kind knows it. If you don't have the morals and the stamina to uphold them, instead of letting Rosen and Valenti, et al, know they have you by the gonads....
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posted on
04/29/2003 9:07:26 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
To: Dominic Harr
A ping for people named Les?
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posted on
04/29/2003 9:08:42 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
To: Dominic Harr
bump
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posted on
04/29/2003 10:06:37 PM PDT
by
gd124
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