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Being a guitar player by itself does not qualify you to draft anti-trust legislation for the music industry. However, someone who's deaf and doesn't know anyth
by shiroiushi 2y ago
Being a guitar player by itself does not qualify you to draft anti-trust legislation for the music industry.
However, someone who's deaf and doesn't know anything at all about music or the music industry would probably also be a poor choice. At least Slash has decades of experience working with major players in the industry and could probably advise on it to some lawyers who know about anti-trust regulation and at least understand the basics about the industry.
- jvanderbot 2y agoI still disagree. It's somehow weird to have a deaf person writing music industry regulations - but it's actually not at all important for them to hear music to regulate it. Otherwise, do we regulate differently based on _sound_!? I hope not! We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not! With tech it's a little different, we do regulate based on aspects that touch on fundamental theory, like manufacturing processes, cryptography, etc.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>We don't regulate based on music theory either! Do we need him to know chord progressions to be able to write laws? I hope not! Yes, we absolutely do, and we already do this. That's why deaf people can't write these laws: they don't even know what music or chords are: they have no way of sensing them. There absolutely have been court cases about plagiarism where the arguments were about whether certain chord progressions can be copyrighted or not.