When you add the lack of princiles to the fact that legislation is done by diffrerent persons at different imes at diffrerent places, unde diferrent pressures and influences you are bound up to end up with a set of laws that are too many and inconsistent with esch other because each is based on a different principle or no principle at all. You end up with a “bowl of spagetti” laws.

As to copyright these are my principles

1. Copying without authorization should only be considered copyright infringement when the copying is done for monetary profit on a commercial scale. Let us forget about the kid that copies 3 records and sells them to his friends. The law breaker (the guilty one) is the one that gains (money or employment) from the infringement.

2. Copyright nfringement should be a civil, not criminal matter, unless the infringement is a violation of a judicial injunction to stop the infringement.

3. In civil proceedings , damages awarded should only be for the actual damages, plus interests and legal expenses. Arbitrary (statutory) damages shoulds only be set when the infringer fails to answer a lawsuit or fails to provide discovery information, for exampe, how many copies were made at what price. A penalty percentage may be added to compensate the victim for his/her time used to make the claims.

4. Companies that infringe in violation of a judicial injunction should be dissolved and the persos responsible shold be barred for from working in a copyright related indusdtry (as they do for bank workers who commit fraud).

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

It’s very simple:

The gun dealers opps I mean manufaturers are right -because they have the $$ to buy the politicians.

The media cartel opps industry is correct -
because they havethe $$ to buy the politicians.

Andwhen you have the $$ to buy the politicians you too can be right.