>
>
>Now having spent a few years playing in the great sand boxes on both sides of
>"The Gulf" I have had the displeasure of listing to a wide selection of some
>very disagreeable sounds that were presented as music.
>
Be nice, now. Richard Stallman likes Balkan and Macedonian music that is
very similar to Kurdish and some Iraqi music. :)
>Am I allowed to listen to Iraqi sources with out having to worry that I am
>infringing on some RIAA copyright?
>To download it?
>
Iraq is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
so theoretically the RIAI (Recording Industry Association of Iraq) could
come after you, assuming there is such a thing and it wasn't run by the
late Uday Hussein or someone similar.
In a practical sense, you're probably pretty safe.
- Robin
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