In article , Iain M Churches
wrote:

"Keith G" wrote in message
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There you go - you done it again! 'Sample' MP3s now removed from my
Show N Tell page!

I don't think anyone is going to clap you in irons and send you off to
spend the rest of your days in the hulks in Romney marshes because you
posted an .mp3 :-)

Take a look at UKRAV and the post entitled "Vinyl Rips" or whatever it
was called about six from the top. The site to which it referred
disappeared in a whisp of smoke within 24hrs.

There is a distinction to be made between "giving away" copies of your
*own* work, and "giving away" the work of others.

If the work is yours, you are quite entitiled to decide to allow people
access for free - just as you are entitiled to ask them to pay if they want
a copy. But if the work is not yours, then you are not entitiled to decide
on their behalf that they wish to work for nothing.



I think if the record industry wants you, or any of us for that matter
to advertise their wares, they will ask us:-)

I do find some of the behaviour of the record industry annoying. In
particular, their tendency to keep 'in the vaults' works which some of us
would *wish* to pay for and have a copy. [1] Thus I welcome the 'spur' that
recordings eventually become re-copyable after a suitable time. Although
the musicians/composers may still be entitiled to payment, so this isn't
'public domain' in that sense.

[1] In my case, particularly annoying that EMI kept many Barbirolli
recordings 'out of print' for decades.

Slainte,

Jim

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