On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 19:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 12:49 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > On 5/19/2014 12:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > >> RIAA > > > > > > and collecting society mafias, > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#United_States > > > comparable to the German GEMA mafia > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#Germany > > > are law-abiding, but they likely have lobbies that have impact tothe law > > > and they seemingly don't care about ethics. However, the author of a > > > work always is the author of this work. An author can give all the > > > rights to somebody else, but not the authorship = copyright. > > > > > > > That is a rather strong position. No one forces a musician to join one > > of these organizations. And as I said - in the United States, > > copyrights ARE assignable, just like any other asset. > > In Germany the collecting society GEMA sues kindergartens, when the > children sing a children's song in public and they didn't pay the GEMA. > It's a serious issue for averaged people. The lawyers for the GEMA ^^^ of the GEMA (or working for the GEMA ;) > behave as NSA agents do. Their jobs is to spy. Even German judges > dislike those lawyers.
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