[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

[Panos Savvas]

This is interesting, can any one clear this up for me?
What constitutes copyrighted material and who decides?
For instance I am legally allowed to build a house that exactly replicates
one i have seen
But I cannot even re-record a song I like.
Pressumably the architect of a house feels he/she has input as much
intellectual investment in the building's design as a pop musician might in
to a song.
Where is the distinction?


On 10/26/07, John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:22:22 +0100 Bernard Peek
> <bernard.peek at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yet another questionable simile is squatting. If I move into your
> > house and lock you out I'm not stealing anything. Neither am I
> > stealing anything. What's the crime?
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> This is a very questionable simile, since, in this case, you'd be
> depriving me of my home. This discussion is about making copies.
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> Now, if you made a copy of my house, without my permission, would you
> be depriving me of the profit I could have made selling it to you?
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