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Downloading hotels and altruistic intent, Justice Potter Stewart, steroidically stupid and a moving high tech Idaho wedding video

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WHILE I HAVE A FEW MINUTES and intellectual property and the music and entertainment industries are on my mind in this pre-conference moment, I thought it would be good to post something profound, and something stupid.

Here's the profound:


"The immediate effect of our copyright law is to secure a fair return for an author's creative labor. But the ultimate aim is, by this incentive, to stimulate artistic creativity for the public good." - U. S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (1975)

The public's interest is more important than the creator's interest, this according to a USSC justice.

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Here's SOMETHING STUPID, very stupid, more stupid than stupid is normally stupid. Stupid given a steroidic boost:



"When someone steals a movie that cost you $120 million, that's theft on a scale that's unimaginable. It's like stealing a hotel." Jim Gianopulos, co-chairman of News Corp.'s Fox Filmed Entertainment,
quoted in Bloomberg News, (June 30, 2004)


Stealing a movie is like stealing a hotel. If that's so, then why don't those stealers/evil doers go ahead and charge the public to spend the night in their movie? If I owned a hotel, I would strongly consider charging money for people to spend the night in my downloaded hotel/movie despite my altruistic manner and tendency to share that which I own. Of course this downloaded movie-hotel would not be really mine as it is someone else's hotel/movie and I would have only been the one to download it. Perhaps I could pay for it - say, $15, $20 or $30 - and then I would own a relatively cheap movie hotel.

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A WEDDING


AND LOVE IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING, and especially marriage. I've got marriage on my mind. My wedding ceremony might be as good as Kip's. I'll write some music for it but I bet I'll never equal that of Kip's, and I doubt there will be any magnificent horses, let alone a "wild honeymoon stallion" at the ceremony.

Here's a wedding in which we should all be inspired.


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Posted by EMH on April 24, 2007 08:32 AM |

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