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Re: [NAFEX] Response to Heron's message of 02/17/06
- From: "Dennis Norton" <dmnorton@royaloakfarmorchard.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Response to Heron's message of 02/17/06
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:27:07 -0600
I guess I'll throw my 2 cents worth in on this issue of
"Patent " infringement. After having operated a successful retail
operation that sold music for 13 years, I can identify with the infringement
situation. Music and videos are probably the most abused
"copyrighted" material out there. I watched my business grow at a
pace of 20% per year form 1992 to 1997. The advent of the internet really
got started with consumers in 1995 and by 1998, my sales were
flat. By 1999 I saw them dropping by 10% per year. My music
sales suffered from people not paying for their music. As more and
more people began downloading music, less and less music was being sold by
"independent retailers" and more was being sold by the "bog box" stores at deep
discounts to compete for the same dollar that was shrinking. I sold my
business in 2003 and became an apple grower with the rest of my family.
"Copyright infringement" changed the way music is sold today. The
law states that you cannot make a copy of a CD period. You cannot make a
copy of anything that is copyrighted for any reason unless granted permission by
the copyrighter. Patent laws are the same.
I appreciate the attitude that one would gladly pay the
researcher their due if they knew where to send
it. If NAFEX
and other groups and providers of rootstocks are in a position to help breeders
recover fees that are due to them, then I suggest NAFEX provide a way to
get payment to the breeder. Maybe NAFEX should create an umbrella
organization like CCLI has for churches that copy church music all the time
for their choirs and services. A church pays a fee to CCLI and are given a
CCLI account number for reporting what they have copied. Go to
http://www.ccli.com/whoarewe/CopyrightLicense.cfm and
see how CCLI does it. The more music you copy, the more you pay
annually. Everybody wins. If NAFEX did the same sort of thing,
we growers and propagators would be able to pay the folks who deserve to get
paid and everybody wins. just thought I would throw my 2 cents
in. As a grower, we pay royalties on the trees we purchase and do not
propagate from any stock that is patented, since we, like everyone else,
would not know who to pay. A central clearing organization of system would
solve this and I think in the long run would enhance the propagation of new
varieties. Especially if all necessary information was being reported
to a central location.
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[NAFEX] Response to Heron's message of 02/17/06,
Ribes60, 02/18/2006
- Re: [NAFEX] Response to Heron's message of 02/17/06, Dennis Norton, 02/19/2006
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