from Melissa Draper:

The Toes Clause
If you witness someone stepping on someone else’s toes; do not harangue the person with the bruised toes for being hurt, simply because you did not feel the crush. If you step on someone’s toes; apologise for stepping on their toes. Resist the urge to point to an inconsiderate witness, or people whose toes you have not yet stepped on, as excuses for not apologising.

It's amazing the spin doctor attempts that the NZ wing of APRA are attempting -- and if their members aren't looking further into the facts then they might be succeeding

witness this post by an APRA director

I won't disect it bit by bit because they might be seriously militant with their copyright if i copy the text here.

But I will address the references to the "Featured Artists Coalition".

A group of prominent British artists formed featuredartistscoalition.com. I blogged about this at the time

What does the Featured Artist Coalition really say??

from UK's digital arts online

Music fans should not be prosecuted for illegally downloading MP3 files from the Internet insists an all-star cast of musicians.

Billy Bragg, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Blur's Dave Rowntree are among those breaking ranks with the majority of the record industry who frown upon the wide availability of music on blogs, forums and 'warez' sites.

The view was expressed at the first of a series of events under the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) banner, held at London club Heaven Wednesday night, which campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights.

The Hub Map | The HubSource: hub.witness.orgmaps, show locatinos of human rights abuses, caught on video

Drupal is an example of a project with one commiter per branch -- there's is only one person who will be putting code into the DRUPAL-5 branch in CVS. Like wise for all other stable branches.

CVS only has the concept of commiter. All commits on that branch appear to be authored by that one person. The result is, we don't know who wrote what code anymore.

Other version control system have authors. So, while Bob did the commiting, it is recorded that Jane actually is the Author. You can go further and say that Pete did that design work and Sally did the Testing.