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Re:De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:23AM (#12261470)
Is it that or are they saying that because the original license was written before this new form of distribution existed, you don't have a license for it?

Either way, the music industry needs to die and then be reborn in several years when the existing players are all out of business.

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Re:De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo by jandrese on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:04AM (#12262289)
It's not like the copyright provisions would be any better if they were written today. The only reason we have a public domain, time limited copyright, or even public library system today is because they're grandfathered in from a time before our current copyright maximalism.

You would kill off the current players only to find yourself trapped by an even worse set of overlords.

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