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Music publishers: 'Copyright should be technology neutral'
- jcl 17y agoThey also want online music stores to cough up fees for 30-second song previews. Surely such previews fall under "fair use"? They are excerpts of a larger work, unusable except to give an idea of how the whole piece sounds. And they don't decrease the value of the author's work -- if anything, they increase it. It sounds like the publishers are trying to make a short-term gain while crippling their industry in the long run.
- DarkShikari 17y agoSurely such previews fall under "fair use"? The music industry has made it abundantly clear for almost 30 years (since the early days of tapes, really) that they believe fair use does not actually exist.
- asciilifeform 17y ago> "Technology should not be used to strip rights from songwriters, composers and music publishers" Technologically stripping rights from music purchasers, on the other hand, is a sacred right?
- pierrefar 17y agoIs DRM a technology by their definition? If yes, we can twist the argument and state that copyright doesn't need DRM because DRM is a technology. Hey, it's a twisted hack of "logic", but it might work.