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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: Risk
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Date: 16 Nov 90 22:39:39 GMT
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In article <15713@reed.UUCP> orpheus@reed.UUCP (Aaron Semplers) writes:
>    No one can deny that Risk belongs to Parker Brothers. It would be
>interesting to see legislation passed that made copyright and trademark
>nothing more than a "first shot at it" sort of thing. Interesting, but
>probably not in the long term interests of the economy. I am not big on
>intellectual property rights myself, but they do serve a purpose.

That's how it works in the music industry! The original composer has
the right to decide who first records/markets his song (i.e., if I write
a song, & show it to somebody, they can't record it & market it before
I do.  In fact, if I write a song, and give it to my record company,
then they get me mad for something--say, advertising it obnoxiously--
I can deny them the marketing & go to somebody else.  [Note that "I" here
should be taken as a general pronoun; I am not a composer. :-)] Contract law
probably modifies this; I'm not sure.)

Not sure why it's different for music...
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