[sumo] NHK and Subscription Fees

[Lynn Matsuoka]

CHUCK....

FIRST. WERE YOU IN LAS VEGAS?
 How come I didn't see you?


2- can I give you a call about some stuff sumo? Are you still in  New
England?
I am in NY..
Would you email your number?
thanks
Lynn 



On 8/1/06 8:10 PM, "Kaiopectate!" <cfinberg862 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Achim Pawelczyk <sumo at achimp.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Imagine which great works we would miss.
>> The brilliant ideas that might have failed to take
>> form without the
>> incentive to prevent its free use.
>> 
>> Akinomaki
> 
> Nice thought, but I doubt it.
> 
> Just as they say David Ortiz will never buy another
> drink in Boston, I think that Homer probably got a lot
> of free room and board around Greece.
> 
> As usual, I speak from ignorance -- and proud of it!
> 
> But I doubt that any creative artist before the last
> couple of hundred years got any benefit from, or gave
> any thought to, copyright laws.  I'm sure there's
> information about this on, say, Wikipedia, although
> how good it is, I don't know (because, unlike the
> Brittanica, no royalties are paid, so no incentive
> ;-).  
> 
> Aside from the fact that creativity enslaves you,
> creative artists flourished without copyright
> protection.  Visual artists such as, say,
> Michelangelo, or Rodin, could create unique works;
> possession of the artists themselves became the
> commodity in some instances.  Some profited by
> gathering 'schools' around them, and by establishing
> assembly line operations and taking commissions for
> works.
> 
> Dickens, and Byron, profited from popular sales, even
> though I would guess there was a fair amount of
> pirating; but the public's desire for immediate
> gratification insured that money came in for their
> works.  (The Bible seems to have experienced
> extraordinary circulation without copyright
> protection, although it's probably true that its
> author's house is not as opulent as that of Jackie
> Collins.)  
> 
> Today, it's easy to find a Stephen King book without
> buying it new -- i.e., no royalties paid; yet millions
> are sold new.  And money is paid for what used to be
> considered merely ancillary rights (movies, clothing,
> action figures), to the point at which in many
> instances the book is the spinoff.
> 
> At the other extreme, the world abounds with people
> who create without any assurance of profit at all.
> And it always has.
> 
> No, I DO agree that copyright is reassuring to artists
> but, 99 times out of 100, I'd say it assures that we
> are saturated with a lot of crap.  Without it, I'd
> still pay big bucks to see Eddie Izzard live, and I'll
> bet he'd never have to pay for a meal in L.A.
> 
> - KKSM
> 
> P.S.  Why does everyone pay so much for their
> Scooby-Doo lunchboxes, when they can join the
> Massashigawa-beya and get a sock monkey fridge magnet
> for free?
> 
> 
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