Boyd Wrote:
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> Sorry if the contact form was being mean to you, i
> have fixed it and it should work as expected from
> now on.
Ok. I'll give it a shot again.
> If you have trouble listening to the files
> streaming live, you may want to down load them
> first.
Well, I tried downloading the White Worm file but this didn't seem to help much. The problems I noticed were these:
1) If I tried to fast-forward more than a few seconds the sound cut out and would not come back until I rewound a back near the beginning. And oddly if I forwarded too much it would stop producing sound even though the time counter continued counting as if it was still playing.
2) So I just let the thing play through without trying to fast forward, but then somewhere between minute 17 and minute 20 it seemed that the sound just cut off entirely. I could rewind and there'd be sound but then when I let it play again there was just no sound when it got past that point.
> I have a philosophical approach to copyright (dead
> people don't need money, any one else should
> create themselves and stop being ghouls living off
> the corpse of another) that gets me in to trouble
> instantantly as it does quite match the legal
> definition. No one has threatened to sue us yet
> (ok only once) so if you don't mind, I'm willing
> to host the files.
In principal I agree with your philosophy and as a result will send you any sound files I produce.
In practice though I think I see why copyright lasts awhile after an author's life (among other possible reasons: 'cause you shouldn't be able to release stuff from copyright just by killing the author).
My knowledge of the topic is almost entirely gleaned off wikipedia:
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en.wikipedia.org]
Apparently alot of CAS' stuff falls into this weird category between 1923 (before which one can use dead author's works with impunity) and 1976 or so (when the modern copyright provisions were enacted). Thought maybe you knew a bit more about how this worked with regard to him.