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Posted by Bill on 12/05/06 19:21
PTravel wrote:
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> You're unclear on the scope of protection available under copyright. Ideas
> are not protectable by copyright, only the expression of ideas. Everything
> in your list is an idea, and not protectable expression.
That's pretty well my point. I'm not sure many people make that
distinction. And playing and recording a sequence of C, F, G on the
guitar is not an idea. It can be an actual recording which,
nevertheless, could survive a copyright challenge.
As in the case of Disney's "Lion King", I would suggest that the
difference between an idea and the expression of idea is not always cut
and dried.
>>Those aren't "psychopaths"-- they are mostly kids who want to share the
>>touchstones of modern culture with each other. They could be forgiven for
>>thinking that that is exactly the aim of the music/television/film
>>industry.
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> There's no First Amendment interest in a kid downloading music from the
> internet so that he doesn't have to buy the CD.
>
Didn't say there was. I was saying that these kids are not
"psychopaths" who need, as the poster suggested, to be punished.
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