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March 2, 2005
For Your Ears Only
Posted by Alan Wexelblat
About.com has a really amusing piece by Cory Dietz claiming that the RIAA is suing people for listening to music in cars. The claim is that the music was only provided to the original owner of the car, so passengers and hitchhikers who listen to music in the vehicle are doing so illegally.
Sadly, this story is close enough to believable that About felt the need to mark it prominently as satire. Given the reach of the Cartel to date, I confess I didn't find the basic premise totally beyond the realm of belief.
One wag commented in email that perhaps the next step should be "listening licenses," under whose terms the Cartel would be able to jail people like Mozart, who was apparently famous for being able to reproduce any piece of music he had just heard.
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1. Shawn Abel on March 2, 2005 1:50 PM writes...
Well, wasn't the Finnish taxi association successfully sued a handful of years ago for allowing passengers to listen to the radio (or was it CDs?) in their cars? The only difference is the commercial aspect, which as we all know doesn't make or break a copyright infringement.
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