Hello, ....I certainly see Steve's point below. But purely for the sake of argument, let me present a hypothetical situation. Cuneiform currently has over 170 releases in it's catalog. Let's say two imaginary music fans w/ below average income wanted to have at their disposal the entire Cuneiform catalog. They enter into a agreement where each will buy half the catalog and copy their half for the other person. Certainly the easiest and most correct way to look at this is that you've been screwed out of the profits from a complete run of yr complete in print discography by two people who are a dangerous combination, obsessive and (extremely) cheap. But in the process one copy of every Cuneiform in print release was purchased. Of course, I realize that the gray areas in this discussion can get so damn gray at times that we'll never come to a consensus. Steve's opinion of the above would probably differ from John Zorn's or Derek Bailey's or Bruce Russell's or Dan Koretzky's or insert truly independent label owner here. On the consumer side of the fence, as we've seen from the long string of posts on the topic, things can get just as muddy. But that's to be expected I guess when art and commerce come together. I remain.... Joseph NP: The Mount Everest Trio- "Waves of Albert Aylmer" CD NR: Dave Eggers- "You Shall Know Our Velocity" -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of CuneiWay@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 5:07 PM To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: why isn't it stealing? Please tell me why, if someone copies and keeps one of our releases, thereby depriving me of the sale of that release and our artist for the payment of the sale of that release, why this *isn't* theft? Thank you, Steve Cuneiform Records
WC> Well, it is stealing. It's stealing the artist's royalty that WC> otherwise would have been paid if the burned-copy-recipient had WC> bought a legit copy instead.
Still, technically it is not. The artist's royalty probably is underpaid, but there is no stealing.
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