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Besides the fact that there is no provision in the US constitution for treating ideas as property, it's wrong because webcasters are being treated wildly unfair
by sabat 18y ago
Besides the fact that there is no provision in the US constitution for treating ideas as property, it's wrong because webcasters are being treated wildly unfairly than other outlets. There is only one reason for this: the RIAA is afraid of them and wants to drive them out of business. That's actually illegal. And wrong.
- tptacek 18y agoA WMG-owned production of Mylie Cyrus singing "7 Things" is not simply an "idea". That's a straw-man argument.
- sabat 18y agoWhatever you want to call it -- I use the word idea -- a song is certainly not a tangible thing. (If you can hand me a song, I'll recant. No, not that, that's sheet music, not the song itself. No, not that CD, that's a copy of the recording of the song.) The constitution says -- I'm paraphrasing -- that 1) congress can't make laws that limit the freedom of expression (including my ability to use someone else's work to express myself), and 2) that the exception to that is for artists, who are granted a monopoly on their own work for a limited time, to encourage them to make more art. There is NO provision for "owning" a song. And the 1st amendment trumps any law that says you can. BTW I think you ought to look up what the straw-man argument, because I don't think it means what you think it does.