Subj : legal/illegal
To   : Steven Leeman
From : Pieter Heymans
Date : Wed May 24 2000 03:31 am

Hi Steven Leeman, hope you are having a nice day

23-May-00 20:16:57, Steven Leeman wrote to Pieter Heymans
 about legal/illegal

 PH>> I Heard that websites distributing lyrics are illegal, and that
 PH>> sony music is prosecuting some...
 SL> indeed
 That doesn't make them very popular to me...

 PH>> But I don't really see why it is illegal, and in which cases...
 PH>> Is it for all lyrics, or only for those, made by sony music?
 SL> because there are copyright messages in thoose cd booklets :-)
 1: Not all cd's have text-booklets
 2: What if you write it down from what you hear? (so not copy from the
 booklet?)

 SL> and if they were free why would one sell lyricsheets/books?
 Where do you buy those things? There are many songs of which there is no
 possibility to buy the lyrics.  And they aren't in the booklet of the CD,
 so how can I get those?
 I think it's stupid to prohibit the distribution of something that can't
 be acquired in a legal way...  (as long as there are no other reasons, off
 course, for those who directly think about the legalisation of drugs...)

BTW: whoever buys lyricsheets/books?  I wouldn't even know where to get
them...  And I don't know anyone who buys such things (I mean, lyrics
without a cd)

The only legal way I know is read them from the 'Joepie' of my sister, and
that's only one lyric/week...  (for people out of Belgium: it's a magazine
for young girls)...


 See yah,
 Pieter <=-

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