[mtp-teoria] from around the corner

[dusan]

hello,

quite the stories from the last days  :)

in UK, animals entered the free culture battlefield,
when the woman was charged a 100 GBP annual licence fee
for playing the opera and orchestral symphonies on the radio 
to keep calm the horses at her stables, since the 
copyright collecting agency considers it a public performance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5061004/Woman-who-plays-classical-music-to-soothe-horses-told-to-get-licence.html

ex-RIAA lawyers-led Department of Justice made their day
when Obama government approved up to $150,000 fine for 
downloading a single mp3 file...
.but people say not to worry, $150,000 won't be worth 
that much in few years.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/obama-sides-wit.html

Vaclav Havel asked the audience at the last weeks' creative 
industries conference in Prague about what economical effect 
has had brought the richly decorated and enourmously high 
Prague's Saint Vitus's cathedral in its time. 
it was an rhetorical question..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9oQYXu2ktg&feature=channel_page

though there are more important things in the world..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLHOGT0v4c

d.