The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57663   Message #957472
Posted By: Kaleea
22-May-03 - 03:31 AM
Thread Name: Licensing Bill moves on -OUR FUTURE
Subject: RE: Licensing Bill moves on -OUR FUTURE
Why is it that no matter where one lives on this planet, there is always somebody out there dedicated to ruining (taking away) the ordinary, good pleasures of life? A few people want to enhance their enjoyment of food music by getting up & dancing, and right away somebody has to start regulating it. The few people can no longer feel free to get up & dance a bit because their feet just want to move to the music. The dance police--"them durn revenoors"--have to police every little pub or bar in every little hamlet or town in the world. How will the laws/regulations be fair to the average little spot in an average little pub in a little village? Do the dance police ask the little people what will actually be helpful? Is it possible that the average folks in an average little spot in a little hamlet somewhere can use "common sense" and not have a need for the dance police? How much regulating/lawmaking/censoring/banning is enough? Or too much? Perhaps a few people want to bring their instruments & play some good music for an hour or two, and people get together at their local coffee/whatever shop or local pub & begin to have a good little session, and somebody just has to regulate that. Laws are written, music is licensed, regulated, censored, banned. The few people can no longer enjoy an impromptu session, singing/playing of a good song or tune because it is regulated, and some of "them durn revenoors" have to police every little pub or bar in every little hamlet or town in the world to be certain that nobody is violating the new so-called laws--they follow the letter of the law, forgetting the intent of the law. Yes, of course there must be laws--anybody understands that, but when the laws keep the average person from enjoying normal freedoms because some busybodies just have to regulate/censor/ban because they love to tell others what to do--even if the new law makes no sense----how does this help the people whom the laws are supposed to "help"? How does a copyright law put money in the pocket of a composer who is dead generations ago by not allowing a handful of people to sing or play a song or tune in a small, intimate setting? When & where does it all end? How much law is too much law? How much regulating/lawmaking/censoring/banning/ is too much? Who profits from all of this?