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the increased resale of the back issue<SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=200243700-02022004>So how do I complete my
collection when these books are no longer available and still give Sergio his
dues... you want me to pay him twice ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=200243700-02022004>But Hey !- it works for
actors so why not comic book artists/writers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=200243700-02022004>Does the artist of a painting
get a slice when it is re-sold ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=200243700-02022004>?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=200243700-02022004>Mark</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> groop-bounces@groo.com
[mailto:groop-bounces@groo.com]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Groopunk@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> 30 January, 2004 05:51<BR><B>To:</B>
groop@groo.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Groop] My Last e-mail on this. I
promise! <BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
face="Courier New Baltic" size=2 FAMILY="FIXED" PTSIZE="10">In a message dated
1/30/2004 12:32:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, grossfam@olywa.net
writes:<BR><BR>
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size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff">As I said in the last
message to you, getting up to pee during advertisements also negates their
purpose. By your logic then, getting up to pee is a copyright
infringement or hurts people in the same way as a copyright
infringement..</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT lang=0
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FAMILY="FIXED" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff"><BR>It affects me in the same way it
would affect Sergio if you photocopied his comic so you could take it with you
to read on vacation.<BR>You are copying a legal broadcast for your own
purposes. That's illegal, I believe.<BR><BR>As far as the airing of
commercials, I was using this in response to something different someone
mentioned. Someone said that used music/book/comic stores aren't as bad
as filesharing because the product still was paid for initally (thus $ goes to
artist) and the increased price and resale helps other
stores/employees/etc. Now, according to the other arguments going on
today, I would think people would be opposed to this as well because,
technically, Sergio is not profitting from the increased resale of the back
issue. Many people were taking the stand of artist lost royalties to
filesharing because one person buys a song, makes it available to the WWW and
no more royalties to that artist.<BR>I was making a point that if someone
wants to make the case for "Used" stores being better than filesharing because
they do support businesses, employees and such, then - by that arguement,
taping a show and editing out commercials is altering the way a program was
meant to be seen: "we give you 10 minutes of show, you check out our sponsor
and buy their stuff because their stuff pays for our show!" By editing a
show it hurts all the people that bring that show to fruition. Someone's
gotta pay for the show. If people are concerned with helping the chain
of employment, I ask to please watch the commercials and buy
products.<BR>-seth-</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>