I’m pretty sure that music existed before copyright. And it would continue to exist if copyright went away.

We’ll have to make sure there is some other incentive, product or service to get people to part with their money and/or find some way to fund the creators.

“How is anybody supposed to actually know WHO holds the “copyright” on something with no registry?”
How s anybody to know when a work is in the public domain. Because there is no way of knowing for ordinary people, ordinary people cannot copy anything without risking being sued.

“The solution is to render copyright completely and utterly unenforceable in any form whatsoever.”
No that is no solution. No one will spend any money making a movie or a recording if copies can be freely made and sold in streets and stores. The solution is to enforce only criminal infringement, which I describe as copying for direct sale profit.

There are about 100 records from about 20 record companies (some are major ones) being sold in USA stores and the USA based Internet web pages with songs whose copyright belong to my family and music publisher (gvenegas.com) without any license or payment of royalties. On the other hand we know of not one record where legalities (with license) are in order. This is in my view criminal infringement and is rampant in the record industry. The crooks who run the record companies should be prosecuted, and the Jammie Thomas and the 14 year old kids who copy for personal joy should be left alone.

Is it not ironic that same same record companies that frequently infringe the rights of authors are the ones most opposed to personal copying?

Ya that’s what I think too.

Cheers!

(should be “Davis”)

What about the infamous “orphaned works” problem? That was essentially created in the 1970s, when they dropped the registration requirement. How is anybody supposed to actually know WHO holds the “copyright” on something with no registry?

They can’t — which was exactly what the RIAA and other sundry lobbybots wanted: with no explicit requirement that an item be registered, anybody can basically claim ANYTHING in regard to copyright, and, thanks to their multi-billion stable of ambulance-chasers, they figured it was a foregone conclusion that they’d always win, simply because they could smash anything they didn’t like by means of nuissance lawsuits etc.

Ultimately, the solution isn’t so much copyright reform — although that’s important. The solution is to render copyright completely and utterly unenforceable in any form whatsoever. Mass, continuous, ubiquitous civil disobedience on a global scale.

Let the bastards try to sue hundreds of thousands, millions, or even hundreds of millions. Eventually, no matter how big they are and HOW much money they have, the cost of attempting to prosecute such cases will become too burdensome, and the whole field of copyright ‘law’ will finally look like the evil farce that it really is.

“Donald B. Verrilli Jr, named by the Hollywood Reporter magazine as one of the top 100 ‘Power Lawyers‘”

should be

“Donald B. Verrilli Jr, named by the Hollywood Reporter magazine as one of the top 100 ‘Rabid Weasels‘”

The correction appears to be factually accurate, the original is highly misleading.

SRG

Not dfor very much longer.