http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-... This talk by Larry Lessig (one of the founders of Creative Commons) has a nice historical view of copyrights/IP and how to go about it now: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.... saidi On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:32 PM, <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info<ashok%2Bskunkworks@parliaments.info>
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
Through this premise, we should get rid of the concept of a corporation and share profit's equally with the employees. The problem I have with this is that, while working for corporation x, employee a used all off corporation x's resources, but want's to happily keep the spoils for themselves.
This is the argument used by record companies. Record companies are going gradually bankrupt (when was the last time anyone bought a cd ?!).... but have you heard of any music artist going bankrupt ? No. Has the quality of music gone down ? I dont think so. Has innovation in music suffered ? I dont think so ...
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