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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Yes, broadcast laws take some liberties, too. In the case you mentioned, your providing a copy of a program to someone else is illegal, strictly speaking... however, the authorities do not consider one transaction to be worth pursuing, so they let it go (like police allowing a driver to go 2 miles above the speed limit). When volume and significant sales dollars are involved, however, they will pursue and prosecute to the full extent of the law, and there is assuredly a legally-adopted guide level at which they consider appropriate to pursue and prosecute.
This is essentially the strategy the RIAA is using to pursue music swappers. (Not making a judgment, I'm just saying.)
But the fact is that broadcast has still worked out a lot of the problems we still debate here... adopting their guidelines would at least free us up to concentrate on the stickier issues.
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I think that broadcast TV has solved the
revenue problem by being a advertisement driven model. They get the revenue from the advertisers upfront. The same for broadcast radio. All content royalties, even reruns, is paid for upfront, with no residuals after the broadcast. Books, movies, recorded music, computer software, et. al. don't follow that model, and use a residual royalty model, which is being slowly killed by technology...