Re: OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
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
behave as NSA agents do. Their jobs is to spy. Even German judges
dislike those lawyers.
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