[BC] Where did the RIAA go off the track?

[Rick Heil]

Life plus 70 sounds more like a good prison term, not copyright term to me.

Rick

On 4/18/07, Dana Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
>
> Yeah
>
> Now the crooks in Congress have defined "limited time" as the author's
> life
> PLUS 70 YEARS!!
>
> There's a certain mouse that was copyrighted in 1934, 20 years BEFORE I
> was
> born.
>
> His copyright will expire in 2036. If I survive, I will be 82 years old!
>
> I find it hard to believe that 102 YEARS for a copyright is a 'limited
> time'.
>
> -D
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:58:35 PM EDT
> From: IBSHQ at aol.com
> To: broadcast at radiolists.netCc:
> Subject: Re: [BC] Where did the RIAA go off the track?
>
> RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America, is controlled by four
> giant
> music companies, SONY-BMG, EMI Recorded Music, Universal Music Group, and
> Warner Music Group (AOL). Most of these four companies are foreign
> controlled.
> Together they act as a music monopoly/oligopoly.
>
> SoundExchange is a RIAA wholly owned corporation.
>
> The problem is the DMCA Law of 1998 largely written by RIAA and their
> lobbyists.
>
> In the early 1990s the monopoly music companies saw the sharing, over the
> Internet, of "perfect" digital copies of their music as a growing threat
> to
> their
> monopoly, cash flow, and control of the music industry.   RIAA, according
> to
> their website, controls over 90% of commercial music sales in the USA.
>
> In 1995 the persuaded Congress to pass the Sound Recordings Act.   In 1998
> RIAA successfully lobbied for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
>
> Copyright Laws come from Section 8 of the US Constitution.  Specifically
> the
> US Constitution says (Congress shall pass laws):
>
> "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"
>
> If you feel it is more important to promote the progress of science
> (Internet
>
> - Webcast) than to protect, RIAA, not specially protected by the
> Constitution, as are ASCAP/BMI, but instead protected by DMCA, then YOU
> have
> to persuade
> Congress to amend DMCA.
>
> Fritz Kass - Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS)
> www.collegeradio.tv
>
>
> In a message dated 4/17/07 6:26:10 PM, brscomm at charter.net writes:
>
>
> > The same way the FCC went from a technical regulatory agency to
> controlling
> > content and wardrobe malfunctions...
> >
> > Bill
> >
>
>
>
>
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