Hi Gary,

Your point about copyrights was essentially true in most cases before 
the era of deregulation, consolidation and the lobby machine.  Now that 
is certainly no longer the case.  I remember as a little boy recording 
the Buffalo Bills radio broadcast on my little consumer level reel to 
reel recorder and then being told by another little boy that I was doing 
something illegal.  I got scared and I called the Bills front office and 
they virtually laughed at me saying that I was OK unless I tried selling 
or charging admission for playing the tapes.

More recently, as someone who tried doing Karaoke in a public place, I 
was approached from some clown from BMI or some such group inquiring if 
I had purchased the tapes legally and if I had rights to them and if the 
place (a private party but held in a more or less public place) had 
rights for such activity.  Actually, I had recorded the tapes on my own 
and with someone else not connected to any organization.  Seee how 
things have changed.

On 2/9/2015 10:31 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hey Tom,
> I was under the impression that if no one makes a dollar on something, that
> there is no copyright infringement  It is just sharing.  Gary KB2YAA.
>


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