Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Best Quotes of The Day On Intellectual Property & Music
Well folks, today we were blessed with a mini novella from someone I consider to be a genius (one of only 3 geniuses I know). And his comment on John's post about SpiralFrog and the free music download business model wins the mshift "quote of the day" award, hands down. Before I give you the quote, I'll give you a little backgrounder on Clegg [the man, the myth and the legend]. He works at a little voip / ivr company I owe a huge debt to (although I'd never be allowed to repay them). He, and his cohorts, helped me through the most difficult period of my professional and personal life and I put extra weight on his thoughts because he doesn't talk unless he knows what he's talking about.Regarding Music, Clegg Said...
"Like it or not (I'm guessing not), music is intellectual property that gets licensed, not sold. When you buy a CD, you're only buying the hard media that comes with a license to listen to the music that is recorded on that media. The fair use exception to copyright gives you some wiggle room about what you can do with that disc, such as make an archive recording, play the disc on your PC (an act which probably causes the PC to make a few different extra copies of the music as it plays the disc), etc.
The owner of a copyright has the freedom to license some, all, or none of the rights that come bundled with the over-arching copyright to a protected work. The owner can license only the right to listent to the music on that disk, or he can license a right to perform the song, or to play it in public, or to incorporate that song into a movie or television commercial. This is not evil (or even greedy)... it is merely the nature of a copyright."
Second Runner Up is Shannon With This Quote Regarding Our Dog Zoe
"the dog pooped on the floor! yes!"
Posted By Jason Dowdell at 05:08 PM
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