The problem for me is, I have no Sheep-gene in my DNA. I'm not bound to follow. Never have, never will. I'm not going to play any game to someone else's rules, especially when the game is fixed and the people trying to force their rules on me (and you) have no right and no legal (constitutional) grounds to do so.
The law is clear. You and I may post content on the web which uses someone else's copyrighted material. So the answer you give to:
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...is:
Copyright Disclaimer.
Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statue that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No infringement of copyright is intended in any way under DMCA, under the terms of fair use for education. NO PROFIT is made by me on any material contained herein.
This is exactly what these guys do when they post (and by the way, you really have to check out their Beatles stuff, outstanding!):http://www.youtube.com/user/imcarrying# ... vagh_n8DYE
Obviously, the multi-music Corps don't like this and use their lawyers to go after what they can. I don't agree with piracy and don't indulge in it or encourage it but we are talking the right to share our music and learn and share songs among friends seeking no profit. Actually we spread interest when we do this and encourage sales so it is really a win/win... except when some bullies want to deny you rights you already have, they seek to strip you of these rights and force you to play their game by lobbying to get laws changed to their advantage. And the place this is done is the US Congress.
Many of these big Corps are US based so they chase Congress to make laws to their liking. They could just change their marketing strategies and do some actual, honest work on developing workable sales models in an ever changing world, but that's work! And the problem here is, if they are successful, that the US manages to get the world to dance to their laws. An example of this is if you are a Brit, you commit some computer "crime" eg.: hacking into the pentagon's computer system from home in Blighty (eg Gary McKinnon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon), the US can extradite you to face draconian sentencing in the States. Britain cannot extradite a US citizen for a similar crime, the US does not allow extradition. How the hell British parliament signed a one-sided agreement like that, God knows! In the US, protecting US citizens is almost a sacred thing (and so it should be for all countries in this world)... except when its the US government who is looking to assassinate or hold without trial and representation a US citizen suspected of "terrorism", then its ok to kill that person although this violates the constitution. But you will never see an American war crimes perpetrator before the Hague Tribunals.
If you have being paying attention, the SOPA bill seeks to restrict the Internet in favour of entertainment corporations and much more than that, the changes would have wide reaching implications. Basically, its an attempt to get control of and censor the Internet. Wikipedea went on strike for a day to demonstrate against it (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage). It's been put on hold only due to protest and pressure through the Internet... or did you hear the main-stream media complaining... no'... well that's because they are also owned by the same shareholders who own big entertainment.
We think we are free but its in the very land of the free at the moment where I see this concept under fire and under threat
...for all of us. Didn't Twitter just announce its going to censor content? It's only if we stay on the ball and remain aware of what's going on do we have the chance to not allow the Internet to become a virtual North Korea. And we are reliant on US citizens to canvas Congress... we non US citizens can't do that.
We have all agreed that TG is not a place for political and religious discussion and I'm not trying to be political or controversial or knock the US here but politics does effect what we can do. I'm just trying to express my thoughts on stuff that touches us at TG. Admittedly I swing wide but this thread is for off-topic discussion so anyone who wants to point out that this is a guitar site, yes it is and this is the thread we can discuss off-topic issues which touch our learning and playing.
I will now draw breath!
Edits:
Wikipedia:SOPA initiative/Learn more:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation highlights the problems wit SOPA and PIPA here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/h ... ree-speech
