[CLUE-Talk] Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:18:39 -0600
"Evan Widger" <PsychoI3oy at linkline.com> wrote:

> actually the only 2 things i've
> downloaded in the past 3 months have been the william tell overture and
> 1812 overture, and i believe those songs are in the public realm, though
> the performances by whatever orchestras may not be (there's another part
> of copyright law that's messed up))

Yep. The performace is a seperate "work" from the composition. Speaking of
which, on effect of CTEA is that orchestras have a smaller selection of
free works to perform. This has had more of an effect on those with small
budgets.

The last stuff I downloaded was from
http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/ but then I'm a fan of the
strange/bizarre.

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... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
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