[PEN-L:30602] RE: RE: Re: Piracy?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:30593] RE: Re: Piracy?

>
> >The editor of the new book on the Grateful Dead says that
> they owed much of
> >their popularity to bootleg tapes that spread the word about
> the band.
>
> That's referring to the tapes recorded at concerts, which
> they encouraged
> ...  the good ol' hippie capitalists were as aggressive as
> anyone else in
> defending the copyright on their studio albums, and for that
> matter, on
> controlling the use of their copyrighted artwork.
>
> dd

Bob Dylan has made a lot of money -- and some of his best albums -- by selling cleaned-up versions of what originally were bootlegs. So what goes around comes around, whatever that means.

JD