Originally Posted by Rebel I think IanA has a serious problem with copyright and thieves. I'm just saying. |
You think
Ian has a
PROBLEM because he defends someone's right not to have their work potentially vandalised by someone else?
NO. It's not just theft if you don't profit from it. You're far too narrow minded - you're looking at it for a purely financial viewpoint. One might profit in other ways. Reputation being the obvious one.
OK so you don't buy that. Try this:
You have left-leaning political tendencies and you are pro multiculturalism and strongly anti-racist. This may or may not be well known in your professional life as a songwriter.
You write a song which is nothing to do with politics or racism.
The BNP pick up on this song and decide to use it as their theme song in the forthcoming elections.
How would you feel about that?
People spend many years studying and practicing their skills and probably spend weeks or even years sweating over the stuff you are copying as well as a small fortune recording it. You should be able to use it however you want for free?
There is little doubt that a film shown in a festival with a good piece of well known music will do better than exactly the same film with something you knocked up in Garage Band or Acid. Mechanisms exist to allow you to pay for the right to use the copyright music (or film). These exist so that the writers and producers can have some small compensation for their time, effort and money in creating the piece AND for all the stuff they made along the way which flopped and therefore COST them.
Personally I do not have a problem in people using small pieces of copyright material for their own personal use and even posting here for comments in a purely educational manner.
What I do have is an issue with anyone who suggests that anyone else who stands up for the rights of copyright holders has a serious problem.
End of rant.