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Fundamental Socialism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Man by Mick Hucknall
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 2006-11-23 12:54:26 

  


  

    

Right. This is painful. 

Mick Hucknall. Yes the one that sings in that godawful band UB40. Is suggesting that somehow he has something useful to say about copyright legislation (though I concede that he might know more about it than music . Now obviously, this is completely off his own back, and, of course, he is thinking about the public good here, certainly not the contents of his (or the corporate paymaster's) wallets. It also has absolutely nothing to do with a desperate attempt to influence Government policy in lieu of the Gower's report.

Please try not to laugh too much at the self-serving corporate-drone speak that Mick apparently 'wrote' - (note to Mick: usually 'writing' stuff means, you know, like saying what you think rather than signing the bottom of a corporate press release about 'new musical entrepreneurs' - whatever they are). 

Also, check out the comical definition of 'socialism' that Mick introduces here. Presumably under this logic privatisation of the health service, schools and the police would all be 'fundamental socialist' moves. 

Q. How would I define a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing? A. Well, perhaps capitalist might be a good start. I may be wrong here, but I was under the impression that Socialists were *against* property rights? 

I tell you, it really has come to something when corporations start banging the *socialist* drum to try to defend their interests! I hope that Labour won't be dumb enough to fall for it (don't hold your breath though). 

– David


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Fundamental socialism

Copyright does not restrict the flow of ideas; it promotes it, and boosts the knowledge economy 

Mick Hucknall
Thursday November 23, 2006
The Guardian 

Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing? Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.







  

  
  
   
     
    

  

    Fundamental Socialism or: How I Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love The Man by
Mick Hucknall
  


  

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     2006-11-24 19:29:19
  


  

    
Top posting, because this is apropos the MickHucknallIdiocy,
but not a
direct answer.

In Spain the rights collecting agencies (particularly the
very vocal SGAE
and ACAM, which represent music authors, editors and
interpreters) have big
political connections with the Socialist Party, and have
been banging the
"copyright defends the little guy's interests" for
quite a longtime.
In fact their favourite line is "author's rights are
the artist's salary".

Their strategy has been as successful as you can imagine, so
it is not
surprising that it is being taken up in other countries now.

It is also funny how Hucknall says "copyright is
redistributive". True, but
not in the way he means it. In its current implementation,
copyright
collection funnels money against the gradient: i.e. from the
people who have
little to the people who have a lot.

For example, Spanish collecting agencies have a rather high
cutoff point for
payments, so the myriad smaller acts generate money that
they can't
perceive. The top-grossers get their payments fattened by
those accumulated
and uncashed monies.

Water flowing uphill. Redistributive, only not so.

Regards,

-- javier candeira
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     2006-11-24 20:21:43
  


  

    
Simply Red! Mick Hucknall is from Simply Red!
And UB40 is not that bad at all! Simply Red, now that's a
different matter.

Alek Tarkowski

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koordynator / Public Lead
Creative Commons Polska / Poland

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