Re: [Patents] Voice of patenting business

["Christian Beauprez" <beauprez@beauprez.fsnet.co.uk>]

Sorry to keep mailing,

But I'm pondering the point of "performance" versus "reproduction" scandal .

I know I gave an example of the play, but I can think of an even more
relevant one.
We all author web pages.

Are the  web pages or files not protected by copyright when they are
displayed ,executed or performed on a computer, if not then I think the
phonographic industry should stop suing file sharers (after all the files
are useless without a "computer" to perform them - and bear no resemblance
to the notation of the music) !

Likewise CD's are only useful when we play them on a cd player with a
"computer implemented" data reading routine,  does that mean that copy
protection only applies to the songs in notation form, in which case we
never have to pay royalties again for copying CD's!

 Curiouser and Curiouser,

Chris