to Monkey D. Luffy

The idea is good and may work in some instances. My lawyer is already working on that.

Unfortunately many of the recordings with our songs in the market may not be being sold by the owners of the recordings.

For example the only LP recording my father made as as a singer, made forr a no longer existing label (Montilla Records, a one time major label of spanish classical music) is sold over the Internet (as a CD) and none of the various Internet dealers I was able to send a message (most have no e-mail address, none had a physiscal address) answered my e-mail queries as to who was manufactiring distributing the CDs. I suspect these are pirated copies, as no label is identified with the CD I purchase, with the rights to the recording belonging to us already or to someone who inherited or purchased the assets of a record company but these assets are no longer being exploited.

All of which illustrates one of the many problems with copyright law. The law does not require that all products being sold be traceable to a responsible producer, be it a publisher or record company. This oversight in the law makes piracy, the real one, the real theft, where products are sold without authorization or payment of royalties a common occurance.

And of course the law does nothing to allow the legal production of recordings by either artists or songwriters when the the record company has removed the recording from the market. The law, my opinion, should allow artists and sonwriters or perhaps anyone with authorization from the artist or the songwriter to produce the recordings of the music/songs. As it is many artists go to the troble of making a recording that then dissapear from the market while tha copyright law says the ide is to create an incentive for the creators. What a crap. No wonder culture is dissapearing.