[pp.int.general] Kraftwerk guilty of copyright bullying

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Fri Dec 21 03:08:35 CET 2012


Kraftwerk sued another band for copyright infringement over the use of
a two-second sample.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/20/kraftwerk-win-landmark-sampling-case

Copyright law needs to be changed to make this unambiguously legal.
But in the mean time, that a law gives someone the possibility
of doing wrong like this is no excuse for actually doing it.

Perhaps it would be good to protest outside Kraftwerk concerts.

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