Jules Shear Quotes
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
Goodman, Frank. "A Conversation with Jules Shear." Puremusic, Oct. 2006.
In early America, the United States did NOT participate in the European International Copyright convention. The American purpose of copyright was not to protect authors and intellectual property owners, but to promote knowledge and culture. The original purpose was to limit the time during with an author could control his/her creative work so that the society as a whole can get maximum benefit. With the rise of large corporate intellectual property owners with strong lobbyists, they have been able to change the copyright law to greatly enlarge their time and methods of control. The Pirate Party wants to go back to the original intention of the Founding Fathers.
1st Baron Macaulay. The speech was in opposition to the extension of copyright to 60 years after the death of the author. The American Congress in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act did not take his advice and extended the time to 100 years. This was a radical change from the practice of our Founding Fathers who did not allow copyrights at all. America did not join the copyright convention until the 19th century and then for a far shorter period. When corporations started accumulating intellectual property, they made political contributions and hired lobbyists to increase the period of “evil” so they made windfall profits that were not expected.
Jules Mark Shear is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit single "All Through the Night" and The Bangles' hit "If She Knew What She Wants", and charted a hit as a performer with "Steady" in 1985.
