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Re: [ARSCLIST] The Incompetence at ENHS
This is the most intelligent post you have made here
so far.I apologize for calling you a troll.You ignore
one key point here,corporate America ,and government
have been joined at the hip,ever since the days of The
Whigs.We were a Corporatist government long before
Mussolini made his famous quote about same,which is
probably where he learned most of his stuff from.
I am not completely informed about the history of the
GE/Edison row, and how they eventually got rid of
him.Every history I have read on this,talks about the
light bulb,his urban electrification programs,etc. .
The records,and phonographs are hardly discussed.I
would be very interested in reading more about this
aspect of the story.
Roger Kulp
--- Mike Loughlin <mikel78_rpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I hope I can stop your head from itching. First off,
> the Sonny Bono act did
> not come from any desire of the American people, who
> were plenty content
> with the copyright laws as they were. It is not a
> tricky "conspiracy theory"
> it is a very simple straight line from Sonny Bono, a
> man sent to congress by
> the entertainment industry to do their bidding. The
> Sonny Bono act was a
> piece of legislation primarily to protect the
> interest of The Disney
> Corporation, a company that was founded on the
> character of "Alice" from
> Alice in Wonderland, a book written by Lewis Carrol
> (aka Charles Dodgson) in
> the late 19th century and whose copyright expired by
> the 1920s when Walt
> Disney used the book and the character of Alice to
> begin his career. If
> Carrol or his estate could have gotten somebody in
> Congress as effective as
> Sonny Bono, that estate would be worth hundreds of
> millions today and the
> Walt Disney Corporation would not even exist.
>
> Corporate America is not trying to make this
> information unavailable to
> "scholars" ,(this is a term that has no leagal
> standing, it would be totally
> unconstitutional to make information only available
> to "scholars", it
> belongs to "the people") they are trying to make
> their "intellectual
> property" (a total oxymoron) unavailable to anyone
> who doesn't want to pay
> for it. To make their hold on their valuable
> "intellectual property" strong
> the legislation had to include all recordings ever
> made. As I said before
> neither Congress nor the Supreme Court knew anything
> about the real history
> of the recording industry, or how far back it really
> went, they just knew
> they had to say "all recordings" for the legislation
> to be effective.
>
> The information on wax cylinders and all acoustic
> recordings is now
> historic. A person listening to the recordings of
> Billy Murray and his
> contemporaries can learn more about American life at
> the times these
> recordings were made than any other medium
> available. They are part of
> Americas "collective unconcious" if you will. The
> producers of these
> records are all dead. The artists are all dead. The
> song writers are all
> dead. The recording engineers are all dead. These
> are the people that made
> money off these recordings in their lifetime. These
> are the people the
> Constitution says have a right to make money off of
> these efforts for "a
> limited time" and they all got the money that was
> due to them.
>
> It is not the American government that is paying for
> the botched up
> restoration of the ENHS it is the GE corporation, a
> company Edison founded
> which threw him out as soon as they could. Instead
> of the American people
> being willing to pay their taxes to help the ENHS
> continue its work they
> have relied on Corporations to do it. The same is
> true for the LOC. They
> rely on corporate donations, and so, as I said on
> the Amereican Memory site
> we have a site that is nothing more than a
> commercial for Coca-Cola (which
> they probably get a tax deduction for) and no Memory
> of the history that
> early recordings reveal.
>
> "Those who do not study the past are condemned to
> repeat it." Corporations
> are giving the country a huge case of Alzheimers to
> suit their own agenda.
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