Re: actuaries and copyright extension

John Noble confessed:
>
> I'm afraid I'm being identified with a particular position on this
> issue, when in fact I'm only resisting the prevailing sentiment in the
> interest of controversy for its own sake. At bottom, I wonder how much
> real difference the enactment or failure of the proposed legislation
> would make and to who.

    My wife is a choir director. Next fall we are sheduled to sing Ralph Vaughn Williams' "O Clap Your Hands" (1921) in our church. If copyright is extended another twenty years, our parishoners will pay $1.50 per copy per chorister. If it is not, then she may photocopy for about fifteen cents per chorister. Multiply that by all the church choirs, civic choruses, schools with music programs, etc., and then imagine different kinds of similarly situated works and you get the picture.

    This demonstrates the subisdy aspect of the proposed extension-- consumers making direct transfer payments to publishers.

    Paul Heald
    <heald[_at_]jd.lawsch.uga.edu> Received on Mon Apr 22 1996 - 14:14:42 GMT