Even worse in my mind is that this supposed incentive to creativity is destroying our culture. A parent at my daughter's school wanted to video a school performance and then distribute copies for the cost of duplicating them. He is a lawyer so he looked into what he would need to do to be above board with regard to copyrights of the songs. To make a long story short - it is not possible - he would need to negotiate a deal with each copyright holder. This problem is blocking other people also:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wkrp-and-stupid-copyright-l...
