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Originally Posted by PanicLord
Agreed again. However in both cases you are talking about changes in the future, not the current situation.
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True. The current situation is what it is, and some artists and record labels are dealing with it better than others. It seems clear to me that things need to change: as I said, filesharing changed the game completly, and the idea that you can hold on to the old way of doing things seems completely naive to me.
Equating filesharing with theft is understandable from the the old perspective, but to a whole generation, it's the way the world works now. That's the reality of it. Complaining about it isn't going to change things, and sueing music fans for it doesn't seem to do the trick either. I strongly believe that there is a need for innovation in the entertainment industry.
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Originally Posted by PanicLord
I take it you are referring to the Copyright Act 1912 as amended, conveniently ignoring the bit in bold?
"Article 16b. — It shall not be deemed to be an infringement of the copyright in a literary, scientific or
artistic work to reproduce it in a limited number of copies for the sole purpose of the personal practice,
study or use of the person who makes the copies or orders the copies to be made exclusively for himself.
Where the work is one of those referred to in Article 10, first paragraph, under (i), including the score
or parts of a musical work, the reproduction shall furthermore be confined to a small portion of the work,
except in the case of:
(a) works of which, in all probability, no new copies are made available to third parties for
payment of any kind;
(b) short articles, news items or other texts which have appeared in a daily or weekly newspaper or
weekly or other periodical.
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In other words, you cannot download a whole song or album UNLESS it is no longer commercially available and is not likely to be again in future.
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I don't know what version you've been looking at,
the current Dutch text (
translation) says no such thing. The bolded part looks a mashed up version of article 16b, sub 2. But that only applies to "a daily or weekly newspaper or periodical or book or the score or parts of score of a musical work and other works that are reproduced in these works."