"Norman Schwartz" <
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following letters to be typed in news:4fc24c36$0$14808$
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Well, we have some hotly-contested statewide and Congressional primaries in
my neighborhood, so I've been getting almost daily phonecalls touting Joe
Politician or Moe Wardheeler. It's driving me nuts! I got one (recorded)
call from former Mayor Richard Riordan; I neither know nor care whom he was
endorsing, but it was amusing that the call came from Oregon.
Yesterday I opened the mailbox and found the latest issue of Westways, and
fifteen political advertisements. Fifteen! Some of them were multiples
from the same candidate. One of the most obnoxious was from Representative
Howard Berman (a fully-owned and -operated division of The Walt Disney
Company -- the outer envelope bears the inscription, "Jury Duty is Good
Citizenship," and nothing at all to indicate that it's a campaign advert.
Berman is actually having to fight for his nomination this year, since a
redistricting has eliminated one of the safe Democratic House seats and his
colleague Brad Sherman wants to keep his job too.
I was already planning to vote against Berman, who is one of the Big Media
tools pushing copyright ever back, but this doesn't help his case any.
Sherman, should he win, will no doubt bow to the Industry and carry on
Berman's task of destroying public domain and fair use. But at least I can
have an illusion, for a little while.
The copyright issue is relevant, of course, to the matter of classical
music recordings, because it is one of the reasons one has to go shopping
overseas for many historical recordings (or at least many of the ones which
have been reprocessed and remastered properly).