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Originally Posted by MRV
Actually, books are not different than music when it comes to paying for use.
Libraries and schools are permitted use of copyrighted material by way of “Fair Use” which is part of the U.S Copyright Act that pertains to ALL copyrighted work. So ‘students’ can both enjoy and learn from the music of others without paying for it.
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I don't live in the U.S. so American laws don't apply to me
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And remember, libraries have to purchase many of their books with our tax money. In fact, they spend an average of 20-30% of their budget for materials, and around 85% of funding comes from taxes. So it seems you should include book publishers in your description of "crooks and opportunists".
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My sister is a librarian & most of the books from her library come from 2nd hand donations rather than buying new. And she also spends a lot of time at book fairs where publishers give her free copies to put in the library. Very few books are 'bought' new. I'm sure there is some truth in your 85% funding point , but very little of that is spent on new books.
Besides that's not the point I was making , the point is they don't charge you money everytime you take a book out.
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If a book were read in it’s entirety on a radio station, the station would have to pay for that use.
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I'm sure they would but this point is totally meaningless to what i'm talking about.
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Wherever you work, imagine how long you’d be employed if the company were no longer allowed to sell its product. You’d quickly have empty pockets for groceries. But then in your world, I suppose groceries would be free. Of course there’d be no grocery stores in that case.
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True , but then again I treated my buisness like the record industry do i'd probably be able to retire from spending 2 decades overcharging for CD's.
I'm not saying everything should be free , if a record company started up a subscription service where you could live stream any album by every artist on that label for a set fee a month I would happily subscribe to it. As it happens none of them have either the intellect or the foresight to do this so they'll just go on overcharging on I-Tunes , releasing rubbish & moaning about piracy until they go bankrupt.
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I guess we both should go now and plant our gardens if we plan to eat in your world.Cheers.
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Your welcome