Posted by Invid Fan on 04/25/06 03:04

In article <1145906277.461408.220840@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<Elohim@volcanomail.com> wrote:

> I propose that the artist bears in perpetuity his or her rights to
> record, rerecord and sell his personal property any time.That such
> rights are "God Given" and cannot be sold or given away, only put on
> loan to people, like Disney or Apple or Whomever, who always will owe
> the originating artist (not a corporation or non-producer of the
> original work) some recompense. When the artist dies. BOOM. that's all
> she wrote! No giving it over to the family. No rights given to Disney
> (alone) forever or anyone else. It becomes a part of the Public
> Treasury. And we need to make our artists, writers, comics, musicians,
> etc. National Treasures as well. So that other nations cannot rip them
> off with impunity. In other words this whole copyright thing has to
> come back down to an individual's right to pursue happiness and to make
> a profit from his or her own inventions and creations.
>
The first time an artist dies just as their album is becoming a best
seller and his pregnant widow is left with no income, your plan would
be challenged. More reasonably it should be something like the lifetime
of the artist or 25 years, whichever is longer.

--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total shit. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

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