Another issue I find rather fascinating is 'podcasting'. Did you know for example that unless you own the copyright and publishing rights to any particular song, piece of music etc...then it is deemed illegal for you to reproduce, copy, publicly broadcast in part or whole [any] composition owned by another! These practices are rife on blogs and podcast host sites.
The fact of the matter is copyright infringement! I, myself would be most put out if one day I discovered that one of [my] compositions was copied and posted on a obscure blog or podcast site, after all I own the copyright, automatically infact! But how would I know or find out? ........Just a small fish in a sea of sharks!
Is it me then....or is this fact being conveniently overlooked by people on this very sight and their administrators? Copyrights are real and NOT imaginary, they are there to protect the artiste and the ownership of their creation.
There was a news story a year or so ago here in the uk......a father of a young girl (teenager) received a letter in the post one morning infroming him that through his 'IP' address it was discovered that his daughter had been involved in illegal file sharing, he was fined £2000, his daughter said that she wasn't aware she was doing anything illegal? YEAH RIGHTEOO!! pull the other one it's got bells on it. And yes, I know this involved a corporate music company but the law is the same non-the-less.
The next time you take one of your CD's out of it's case ..study the small circular writing going round the outside and read it, then put yourself in the same position (mentally speaking) and consider that if you were an artist of any kind producing original material, then what would you do if suddenly one of your precious works had been usurped by another for their personal gain, financial or otherwise? Did they approach you for permission to do this? NO!! they did the very same thing that podcastors do and that is to abuse the copyright and infringe upon anothers rights.
Think about it.......copyright is a matter of fact.
Ooooooo......this'll upset a few people?
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