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

[David Lennick]

Canadians have been paying a "levy" on blank CDs and other media for a few 
years now. Little wonder that I buy my blanks in the States (oops, any border 
guards on this list?)..

dl

I. Cubillo wrote:
> 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
>>
>>