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Yeah seriously...5 years for piracy and 3 for pedophilia ? Give me a break ! |
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It's every musician's right to copyright their work, but the fines are "cruel and unusual". You
should be fined at how much the song is worth, I.E. $2. I know of a person who, if caught, would
have over 5 life sentences for downloading music, while murderers get 20 years. Fair? |
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There shouldn't even be copyright laws. Just because you wrote a song doesn't mean you own that set
of words in that order. |
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It's gotten to the point where DOCUMENTARY filmmakers have to get permissions from companies to show
scenes of the real world!! |
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It's not just punishments, it's copyrights period.
Copyrights used to expire after FIFTY years, but corporations like Disney kept lobbying for it to be
increased - first to 60, then 75, and when 75 years came up on some properties, they lobbied for the
90 years it is now.
Disney, that "friend" of Joe McCarthy who falsely named people as communists, made hundreds of
millions off of works whose copyrights had expired (e.g. Cinderella, Pinocchio) and never paid a
dime in royalties to their creators. And yet, somehow, those at Disney and elsewhere (e.g. RIAA)
feel it is wrong for others to profit on Disney creations despite the same periods of time
passing.
This is not about copyright protection. This is about greed, about thieving corporations wanting
the law to go both ways - protecting them, but punishing others for the same thing.
I am not saying I have broken the law, and I haven't, but if I encountered a recorded video or
musical work that was at least 75 years old, I would feel no compunction about copying it and
distributing it for free. The law should not have been changed from 75 years to 90; even 75 is too
long.
For the record, did you know the first Mickey Mouse film, "Steamboat Willie", was released in 1931
under the name Mortimer Mouse? It is now over 76 years old. And Robert Johnson's recordings of the
1920s (such as the song "Crossroads") are now over 80 years old?
This is one case where open defiance of the law would be worth fighting in court. Greed in
perpetuity should not be allowed. |
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It is true that copyright punishments have really gone far and in my opinion it should be like that.
To copyright a matter is to preserve the rights or to protect the property which is intellectually
conceived by someone and created in his or her own way. It is a very natural talent that everybody
does not acquire and only those few among us who are capable of certain abilities to create
something this copyright matter is always there to protect them. Otherwise anyone else would take up
someone’s creation and project it as his or her own creation. In order to save such plagiarism
this copyright matter has been so strict and cruel so that nobody even dares to think of such
things. Copyright rules can put someone behind the bars for almost half a decade. This is really a
very good legal step taken to protect creators. |
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I agree, but the punishment should fit the crime.
If somebody copies a music CD 1000 times and sells them on for half the price, obviously they have
cost the artist the sale of those 1000 CDs, and the artist should be reimbursed (regardless of how
successful they are).
But someone should not suffer such a hefty fine for copying a couple of CDs, i.e. For backup and a
friend or two. |
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I can tell the proposer of this debate has never been a freelancer.
Copyright laws exist to protect the rights of creators of works in the public domain to maintain
artistic and financial control over them.
Writers, artists, inventors, and now Web users must have this control. How would you feel if someone
else took credit for your book, article, Web design, musical composition, or invention? What if you
depended on that creation to make a living?
As a journalist, I am acutely aware of copyright violations, and have received strict admonitions to
avoid them throughout my career. The Net has created a whole new ballgame of deregulation; I cringe
to think of how much of my work has been plagiarized off of my newspaper’s Web site.
High fines for violation of copyrights are the only way government and business entities (including
freelancers) can prevent this serious crime. Bravo! |
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