{"id":3023,"date":"2005-07-06T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/07\/06\/collective-licensing-or-media-levy-i"},"modified":"2005-07-06T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T17:46:54","slug":"collective-licensing-or-media-levy-is-a-euphemism-for-turning-creat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/07\/06\/collective-licensing-or-media-levy-is-a-euphemism-for-turning-creat\/","title":{"rendered":"“‘Collective Licensing or Media Levy’ Is a Euphemism For Turning Creativity Into A Socialist Gulag”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

So says Jim DeLong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Someone better tell the artists represented by collective rights
\norganizations ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.  Do they have any idea how they’re being oppressed?<\/p>\n

Artists must rise up and stop Marybeth Peters, whose proposed reform<\/a> “effectively substitutes
\n a collective licensing structure for the existing Section 115 compulsory
\n license.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps Delong was only referring to compulsory licenses or
\n“Alternative Compensation Systems.”  I guess I missed the part in
\nProfessor Fisher’s book<\/a> where people are worked to death in prison camps.<\/p>\n

Come on, guys – do we really want to throw around terms like gulag?  Haven’t we just been over this?<\/a><\/p>\n

In a related situation<\/a>, Glenn Otis Brown pointedly<\/a> framed<\/a> what’s distasteful about casually using such loaded terms:<\/p>\n

“I get sad when people cheapen words like ‘communist’ or ‘fascist’ by
\nthrowing them around recklessly, especially given what those words
\nmeant in the not-so-distant past,” Brown wrote. “My father was a CIA
\nCold Warrior for 35 years of his life; he wasn’t fighting against GPL’d
\nsoftware. Stalinist purges, the Berlin Wall, tanks in Budapest —
\nthat’s communism.”\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So says Jim DeLong. Someone better tell the artists represented by collective rights organizations ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC.  Do they have any idea how they’re being oppressed? Artists must rise up and stop Marybeth Peters, whose proposed reform “effectively substitutes a collective licensing structure for the existing Section 115 compulsory license.” Perhaps Delong was only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}