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Yawn. Same old argument, same old way of doing business. As soon as these guys retire/die the rest of the world can get on with whatever ‘it’ turns out to be.
A 5 year copyright would spur creativity as they say. Anything more (like currently) is just greed and thats it. So the ‘spur creativity’ argument is smoke and mirrors.
Free downloads are here to stay. The ‘content business’ needs to innovate or they will die. This is all about the control they have enjoyed and screwed people with in the past. All these speeches and ‘expert’ opinions are nothing but a failing attempt to keep the status quo.
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Wah wah wah wah, wha wha. “Yes teacher.”
i’m perplexed by the sound quality of this zoom. i think some random test recordings in a park or busy street would have been more interesting actually.
as for redstone, it’s kind of sounding like the standard rubber-chicken-dinner kind of fare. i keep waiting for him to use the phrase “back in my day…”. he should waggle his finger and say “shame on piracy!” and get it over with.
#1. Please explain why you think that reducing a copyright to 5 years would “spur creativity?”
It might spur copying somebody elses work. But that isn’t creativity.
#4
If you can’t imagine why I could never explain it to you.
Your second statement proves my point about that.
5 year copyrights sound okay, maybe a little longer like 8-10 years.
But there’s my theory on how that will spur more creativity. People learn by example. They learn by examining other peoples work and get inspired by it. But if you try to make any sort of derivative work, you’ll get sued to kingdomcome. That’s how copyrights currently retards creativity.
Example is the whole Star Wars franchise. The moment Lucas said he was cool for people to make spoofs and “derivative work” people went apeshit over it, and we have seen a lot of COOL stuff people have made in the world of Star Wars.
This also forces the original creators of content to get off their ass and make up something new, rather than milking every last dollar for the past 100 years on some mouse character that barely anyone gives a rats ass about anymore (Disney & Mickey as an example). Which after so long the only way they can make money from it, is if they sue everyone who tries to use it.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner with an open mind. Well done FRAGaLOT!
John…when ya gonna post the cloned dog vid?
Here’s another example for ya Pirate: Photoshop.
That’s a $600+ application, but if it weren’t for everyone PIRATING it for the past 10+ years, zillions of artwork (and fake celebrity’s nudes) would have never been created. Zillions of jobs would never have been created. Also it wouldn’t be the application that it is now.
Adobe doesn’t really seem to care too much that people pirate Photoshop, since it helps users LEARN how to use the app, and be proficient. This in turn will allow the user to legitametly buy Photoshop once this person is a professional in this field.
However, the majority of Photoshop licenses are paid for by business these artists work for anyway; usually volume licenses.