[78-L] RadioRe: This Will Make Radio Even MORE Dead

[I. Cubillo]

Dear all, and Dr. Biel:

Your RIAA looks like our spanish SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y
Editores, Authors and Editors Society) who is the main actor here on several
issues that are so controversial:

- The fee that has been approved and included in the price for a blank CD
- The fee they're trying to apply for the use of internet

These fees have been approved by our oppresive government, and the reason
they've put forward to do this has been the eventuality that you might use a
blank CD to copy music, or the web to download it!

What do you think?

Even in the case you're using blank CDs to save files originated by your own
work (p. e. drawings, texts, etc.) you must pay the fee included in the
price!!

I think that all our government, the SGAE included, and the opposite party,
are all mere transmissors of some lobbies' instructions to demolish our poor
Spain.

Iñigo Cubillo

> Some of you might remember the memorable ARSC Conference session with
> reps of the RIAA where I finally got so disgusted with them I squelched
> them by shouting out "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING
> ABOUT!"  It was just this matter that was being flogged by them.  They
> were of the opinion that no artists would ever create anything if they
> were not getting paid for it.  I told them to ask Vincent Van Gough
> about that.  They were of the opinion that there would be no new music
> unless Garth Brooks and the giant multinationals got paid royalties for
> sales of everybody's records.
>
> Of course those of you who were not there cannot hear that session
> because in the spirit of freedom of academic inquiry the RIAA reps
> withdrew the rights for ARSC to distribute the tape of the session.
> However, I do have my video recording of the session.  Maybe I ought to
> bring it to the Conference and have a late night screening in my
> room!!!!
>
> Mike (I HATE the RIAA) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
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