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| croatia, enlightenedtheme for wordpress, orange county newspapers, public forum, 'literary magazine', steal, 20jazzfunkgreats, blink 182, guatemalan, evil thatcher, bryan gordon, dining, songs, aaron caldwell, cheryl hines, goldielookin chain your mother's got a penis lyrics, | A society requires a free flow of information to survive and advance. Cut it off and you get the Dark Ages - or the Soviet Union - a stagnant society spiraling into ignorance and poverty. The members of the RIAA (to use a prominent example) are attempting to create the impression that they own all music - and at the same time attempting to create technology that makes that a de facto tyee truth, and to pass laws enforcing it. The truth is, tyee however, that the members of the RIAA (like other such entities) only own the copyright tyee to a small minority of all musical works in existence or coming into existence. The vast majority of recorded music is either in the public domain, or the copyright is still held by the creator. Its members have commercial value in the mass market. |
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