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Originally Posted by giddion
thousands of content authors particularly in the music industry are bound by legal contracts that would prevent them from publishing in a web 2.0 medium. If there is a system coming down the line that might eliminate publishers you can be sure that they will be writing very creative and binding agreements that will preserve their rights to control those content authors.
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Although I agree that there might be an overlap problem when introducing the Obama art tax law and all these multi-year contracts that many currently established artists and authors have signed with publishers and labels. That overlap though might only be temporary. And Obama can pass the art tax for new artists to jump on that right away, and old artists can jump on it whenever they can free themselves from their previously signed contractual obligations.
All those contracts can simply be made void by a new law. Laws passed by Governments trump whatever contracts corporations sign to own artists and authors.
And not being a lawyer at all myself, I would say though that it should be pretty much unconstitutional for one person (the corporation) to own the intellectual propriety of another person. Thus all those contracts should become void by default.
Anyways, Obama and world leaders should basically legalize piracy. Which means no corporation can prevent copies of all the works of art from being traded on the Internet, none of the people downloading and uploading it can be sued any ways. Legalizing piracy basically means authors can upload their content wherever they want on Web 2.0 sites and they cannot get sued by the contract with whatever publisher/music label/movie studio to which they might previously have sold their soul to in the past few years where prospects have been so gloom for all the artists in the world.