From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7365ff3531de5f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:57:08 +0200 Message-ID: <9ihe90h1op0sm8f489nc4crlr8ud0mob5g@4ax.com> References: <5djc901glq576rcnpfm8v8vfr7l4s8b4uf@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.119) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083660164 697705 I 212.79.194.119 ([77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:227 Date: 2004-05-04T10:57:08+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 3 May 2004 18:40:06 -0700, "Marius Amado Alves" wrote: >> >Again, I believe the music example can help. Reward is due when the work >is >> >executed. So it works for items that can be executed. Music scores, >> >programs, in a straightfoward way. >> >> It might work, if there were an infrastructure ready to count runs. >> However, I do not think that customers would enjoy a model of paying >> per run. > >That's indeed a problem, but it has a solution. You don't need to count >runs. The creator is certainly willing to cut a fair deal not requiring run >count. That's what happens when a recording company buys the copyright. This is robbing. 1. Nobody can estimate the count. 2. Creators, when not renown, are treated unfair. 3. Milliards wasted on bureaucracy, advertising, fusions, idiotic investments etc. -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de