2397  Acquire orBuy Tango CD's?

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:32:38 -0700
From: sean <milos-gloriosus@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Acquire orBuy Tango CD's?

If in the past you have freely acquired Tango music written or recorded
before say 1950, and you are feeling guilty about depriving artists or
their orphaned families of income by not paying for it, may I suggest a
quick introduction to the modern concept of intellectual property
ownership rights.
Try these Google search terms: Mickey Mouse + copyright.

Sean

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:05:00 -0700
From: Kos.Zahariev@EC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: Acquire orBuy Tango CD's?

>
>If in the past you have freely acquired Tango music written or recorded
>before say 1950, and you are feeling guilty about depriving artists or
>their orphaned families of income by not paying for it, may I suggest a
>quick introduction to the modern concept of intellectual property
>ownership rights.
>Try these Google search terms: Mickey Mouse + copyright.
>
>Sean

This is a frustrating subject. Yet we have to go by the current law. If you
want to make a change, lobby to change the laws. Apart from tangos not
commercially available on CDs yet, it is hard to justify not buying
from places like tangostore.com where a CD costs about $10 Canadian.

By the way, Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture has a illuminating discussion on
the history of copyright in the context of his argument against the ever
increasing duration of copyright by the copyright holders. The whole book is
currently available from Amazon for free, as a pdf download, at this page:

https://tinyurl.com/2wokr

(don't mind the weird-looking link; this is a clever redirection service that
will get you the right page on amazon; the idea is to not have to copy and
paste extremely long URLs)

Konstantin