Comments on: Fred von Lohmann talks to p2pnet

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:37:30 +0000

Thanks for the interview.

Fred von Lohmann points to the EFF proposal [1] for how to solve the compensation problem and I totally agree with the premises of this proposal that reads:

First, artists and copyright holders deserve to be fairly compensated.

Second, file sharing is here to stay. Killing Napster only spawned more decentralized networks. Most evidence suggests that file sharing is at least as popular today as it was before the lawsuits began.

Third, the fans do a better job making music available than the labels. Apple’s iTunes Music Store brags about its inventory of over 500,000 songs. Sounds pretty good, until you realize that the fans have made millions of songs available on KaZaA. If the legal clouds were lifted, the peer-to-peer networks would quickly improve.

Fourth, any solution should minimize government intervention in favor of market forces.

I don’t agree, however, that Voluntary Collective Licensing is the only solution. Why not consider a rights based solution [2] that competes with ‘free’, encourages P2P, provides business models to compensate the artists, and has no need for DRM.

Nicholas Bentley [3]

[1] http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php
[2] http://www.indicare.org/tiki-read_article.php\?articleId=133
[3] http://www.commonrights.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:01:05 +0000

He’s a lawyer / legal expert first, good guy second. Those two don’t always mix.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:28:53 +0000

Fred Von Lohmann is a good man. Phantom Poet Graffito share some of
his ideas about Big Music; especially the idea that the fan should come
first above big distribution, criminal activity. I guess this is the reason
why Spoken X Digital Media Group has decided to release “Classical
Legends” Raw eXclusive–Unmastered and Unforgiven for free on **iSound.com**. . .This offer will expire on 09/14/2005 at such time
that much dreaded $.99 cent tag will kick into effect; hey, I got a serious light bill to pay. Much love to P2P and Big Derek Sivers always
on the job; the Di Graffito X is too, baby!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:15:59 +0000

It’s not the mechanism, it’s what you share with it.

Shovels are 100% legal until I decide to whacking you in the head with it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:09:19 +0000

This is a really good interview. P2Pnet is getting good at this.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:12:07 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:52:29 +0000

very well thought out answers. sounds like just the balance this debate needs. There’s only one line of his I’m suprised at…

“Favorite software: iTunes.”

I guess you can never agree with someone 100%