Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.wobegon Subject: Re: The capitalist swine! Message-ID: <4002@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 10:23:59 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4002 Posted: Tue Jul 16 10:23:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 08:01:00 EDT References: <31500006@uiucdcs> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 11 > True, they want us to buy their versions of these products. On the other > hand, Minnesota Public Radio is (still) a nonprofit organization, and > in any case the material does belong to them. If you'd written it, you'd > feel the same way. It's already ridiculously easy to pirate the material; > all you need is a tape recorder. Yes, I would feel that way. Being a "public" radio station, they are allowed to use other peoples' copyrighted material without the authors' permission. My source: a friend who says that a composer friend of his had his music appropriated for a WNET-TV program without his permission or any royalty payments.