Re: [rumori] more WSJ on copyright


From: { brad brace } (bbraceATeskimo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 21:03:36 PDT


On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steev Hise wrote:

> July 24, 2000
>
> In the Age of Napster,
> We Face Copyright Gap
>
> By THOMAS E. WEBER

> "The idea that copyright is dead is rubbish," says John Schwarz, CEO of
> Reciprocal, one of the companies hoping to make its fortune by narrowing
> the copyright gap. "If the people who create content cannot protect their
> rights, pretty soon there won't be any content," he says....

Not quite ;) Primarily it means that soon there won't be any big
corporate music publishers/marketers (who purchase the artists' music and
rights -- for a song ?); distribution, creative-control and profit may
actually return to the creatives.

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