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[Timothy Butler]

>
> Have you ever seen the release the industry makes artists sign?   
> Unless
> you are big, BIG <humongous>BIG</humongous> already, you basically  
> have
> to give up on any rights not specifically given to you - and those are
> very few.  If you don't sign that, they won't give you a chance.

	True, but at least they do make a living (if they succeed at all).  
It isn't ideal, I'll give you that. But, actually, places like iTunes  
are changing that. iTMS has, I am told, picked up a lot of indie  
labels, and hence is providing the opportunity to make available  
smaller time artists at smaller time labels.

> Bottom line, copyrights do not benefit artists, but companies.  Yes,

	I don't think that's true. Copyrights benefit just about everyone --  
even the Free Software community. Without copyrights, even the GPL  
would cease to function. (The FSF and others support copyrights.)

> Something that burns my heart is that the NIV is copyrighted, and  
> so are
> a lot of "Christian" resources, like the "Jesus" film (the hoops I had
> to go through to get an Aymara copy, that wife and I eventually  
> shown to
> hundreds of Bolivian campesinos is quite something - and probably when
> we did it still wasn't "legal").

	I think, again copyrights are good, although I have a hard time with  
the restrictive "license" under which a lot of evangelistic tools are  
placed. Something like the Jesus film should be fairly unrestricted  
(but not entirely -- you shouldn't be able to alter it in a way that  
would make it anti-Christian, for instance).

	-Tim

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