DRM protected silence
p2pnet.net News Views:- The people behind the entertainment industry cartels are bent on wringing every last drop of cash from everything they can think of.
And they don’t care how they do it.
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DRM protected silence
I’m in the midst of applying for a copyright on internet silence. Any website that features silence as a part of it’s content will have to pay ME 15% of it’s gross revenue. My copyright also contains a "derivative works" provision that empowers me to collect a 5% tarriff on sites that feature silent passages in-between their sound content.
The real beauty of this copyright is that any non-copyright sound used on any site is considered to be silence for the purposes of this copyright.
In the spirit of fairness I am making DRM protected silence available to webmasters at very reasonable licensing rates. Compliance is easy, and infringers will be dealt with in the most severe manor allowed by law. Remember, including silence on your website without paying is a crime.
Sorry Jon, but your site contains silence all over it. I’m going to have to start billing you as soon as my copyright application process is complete.
My friends in congress are already drafting a bill making it illegal to add sound to your site with the purpose of avoiding paying the silence tarriff, so don’t even think about it.
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‘Owned’ by the USA
Maybe the cartel should be looking at itself more closely and clean up their act instead of criminilizing youth for sharing music. What the cartel does is really big time crime. Just read on.
After reading an complaint article of a Mexican web log, how their anthem was "owned" in the USA, I investigated a little and came up with this.
BMI (a major American licensor of copyrights on behalf of the copyright owners) licenses 24 Latin American national anthems says it all. This can be verified at http://www.bmi.com. 18 of these national anthems appear as composed by a single composer, a musical genius known as Ricardo Romero. A title search for "himno nacional" at http://www.bmi.com will show the Latin American licensed anthems.
The American national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner too is licensed by BMI. For other countires I did not check but I imagine that their national anthems are also owned by someone and are also licensed through BMI or someone else.
Now, if national anthems of countries can be owned and exploited by someone in the USA, why not the ancient scriptures or the Bible? After all we do not know for sure what Greek and Roman commom laws said about copyrights and anyway, they did not apply to the USA.
By the way, BMI licenses the national anthems of the Latin American countries in the countries of the anthems through partnership organization in those countries.
For example, the BMI repertoire of songs, which included the Mexican anthem, is licensed in Mexico through a BMI partner (SACM) organization in Mexico. Some Mexicans think their anthem was stolen by the Americans. In Mexico the anthem is in public domain because the last author died in 1908 and because of a national anthem law.
This is the good neighbor policy gone berserk, through the copyright system.
Copyrights were suposed to be to promote the creation of artistic works but is mostly promoting theft.
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April 20th, 2005 at 8:54 pm
I would just like to let everyone know that I will be applying for the copyright to use the letters a, e, i, o, u, and yes, even sometimes y, as well as the use of spaces. In fact, due to the fact that a space in text is indestinguishable from bordering space, I will be required to collect 10% of all website, book, magazine, newspaper, etc revenue for the use of any open space.