The guy who invented the wheel's copyright ran out long before Ford came along smile

Should someone be able to own the copyright to a book? How about the design of a new solar powered engine? Should someone be able to own the copyright of that? If you copy that book at Kinko's and start giving it away, or if you make those engines and start giving them away, you are violating their right to copy.

The ownership of the right to copy a design, of a body of work, of a song, is a good thing. It gives people a reward and an incentive to write books and songs, and to design new engines. It can make a living for them so they spend their time making more designs, books and songs. I don't think that's silly at all.

I do, however, think that the idea of it being ok to take someone's music against their will and without paying for it is a silly concept.


You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

Mike Dunbar Music