The law says nothing about “copyrightable” works. These sre works that the owner may copyright but has not done so.

If a “common sense” interpretation is made of the lwa then, p2p, sharing, copying is not infringement unless the work has been copyright registered. 99.99+ percent of all works that can be copyrighted have never been copyrighted, that is registered at the Copyright Office.

Has anyone realized that 99.99+ percent of all works have no copyright rights because the works have not been COPYRIGHTED? Then that is without taking into account the vast amount of works that are in the public domain.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

Copyright Act 17 exclusive rights of owners of copyrights (CAPITAL LETTERS ADDED):

(1) to reproduce the COPYRIGHTED work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the COPYRIGHTED work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the COPYRIGHTED work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the COPYRIGHTED work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic
works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or otheraudiovisual work, to display the COPYRIGHTED work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the COPYRIGHTED work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

Sony has done everything but what it should have done. It has hemed, hawed, and made movements like it was going to but has done the absolute minimum and only when prodded hard enough that such as action might have to be done.

It’s mouthpiece, the RIAA has tried to say it for them. It’s tried to say the Sony apologized. No it hasn’t. It has said it was sorry for the inconvience to users, not quite the same thing. The RIAA has said Sony issued a patch. Yes it did, one that only made a bad issue worse. Sony has tried to use the problem to gain additional info on its users. Hardly a mark of someone that was truely sorry but rather a mark of someone trying to gain from a mistake by making it worse and showing just what is important to it.

With Christmas coming up, Sony doesn’t want to do anything that removes product. The recall seems to be in word only not in actions. Reports coming from different surfers of the net say that those infected cds are still on the shelves. They can still be purchased. That store managers and owners are on the whole unaware that there is a problem with the cds. In otherwords, to keep Christmas on track Sony only issued the “recall” (that they don’t want to call a recall to trigger news reporting media of the problem) on the net and not at store level. That’s hardly enough nor is it in the spirit of being sorry. That’s in the spirt of profiting off the mess even more and ignoring the whole mess in hopes it will go away.

That ain’t gonna happen with class action lawsuits and the like.

Sony CEO Andrew Lack is a major backer of Mashboxx and was instrumental of convincing Wayne Russo the former CEO of Grokster to set Mashboxx service up for him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_hi_te/sony_copy_protection;_ylt=Asg3Lzq5XpgxgNxs.Lpyo5Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=101954