[Jewelry making - Article 00185] - Re: [Orchid] Studio Tunes

[edlap]

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>          Since I am not making any income on this, there is no issue of
>     copyright. These tunes are for your personal enjoyment. 

    I don't mean to be a trouble maker, Karen, but as a copyright holder
    of a few songs(registered with the Library of Congress), my wife  and
    I have some knowledge of music copyright laws. We are not pros , by
    any sense of the word, but lets consider this from a more closely
    related media-jewelry. Lets say that I buy a few pieces of your top
    selling designs, and a friend sees them. He happens to be the
    director of fundraising for a non-profit organization. Then we decide
    to make up knockoffs of your "bestselling designs", that are
    coprighted, to sell for a fundraiser. And since the styles you make
    happen to be of top quality, we decide to make our knockoffs of a
    cheaper grade, either to widen our NPO's margin, or just to decrease
    the amount that we sell them for, or maybe just because we are jerks
    that do not care about quality. I am not going to make any profit
    from this venture , only cover my material costs , and the rest goes
    to the charity. Oh, and by the way, the charity happens to be a group
    that represents the side of an issue that you adamantly oppose.  Now
    ,how does that sound ? In the Christian Gospel music business,
    copyright infringements are pursued aggressively by the artists who
    find out that XYZ church had a group come in and sing for free, used
    some of their material, and the church(an NPO) accepted a freewill
    offering from the audience in attendance. The original artist is a
    Christian, wrote a Christian song, and intended it for Christians to
    hear, but he did not get his cut of the deal. Regardless of the
    intent of the copier, for profit or not for profit, copying someone 
    elses material is strictly forbidden by law. Ed




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