Re: Samples and looping

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

> You also talk about cultural starvation - are you aware of how many
> albums are released every day? You could spend your whole life
> listening to music, never listening to the same album twice. And I am
> talking about masterpieces of art, not fast food. :-)

I believe I said stagnation, not starvation.  My concern is more with
innovation and being allowed to build on what has come before you,
since I don't belive you can create out of nothing.

What if someone has, in their head, the best Batman story ever told?
Right now he can write it down and share it with friends.  He can also
pass it down to their kids, grand-kids and so on.  Eventually, maybe,
someone will be able to publish it.  I don't want to deprive creators
of their rights, but if someone can write the best Batman story ever
told, I want to read it.

The link below is to an article published yesterday that presents a
view akin to my own.  The author does a better job of presenting his
ideas than I did...

http://tucowsinc.com/news/2009/08/copyrights-creative-disincentive/

Sylvain

On 8/27/09, Milo <milo.vuc@gmail.com> wrote:
> The protection of copyright beyond the artists' life is in place so
> that his/her family is protected after his/her death. It was designed
> as a backup social protection for the art worker and his/her children,
> because most art workers are not superstars and they are living a
> normal life as you all know, I am sure.
>
> When you are a businessman, you own your business and its capital. If
> you suddenly die, your family inherits it. This is a choice of society
> as well.
>
> Do big corporations exploit the laws? Of course they do! But can you
> please point to the direction of a multinational corporation that is
> not exploiting a law nowadays?
>
> We can either abolish property completely or not. The middle way, the
> easy way, is the post modern capitalism we live in, crushing the
> people in favor of corporations.
>
> Pirate Bay is a corporation - a multimillion dollar one. Their shares
> are available for sale in the stock markets. How many dollars have
> those businessmen invested in art? Zero. How many artists have those
> businessmen assisted financially? Zero.
>
> You also talk about cultural starvation - are you aware of how many
> albums are released every day? You could spend your whole life
> listening to music, never listening to the same album twice. And I am
> talking about masterpieces of art, not fast food. :-)
>
> On 8/27/09, Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What we have now, is a bit of
> > perversion of that original intent where copyrights extend beyond the
> > life of the original creator...  The aime of many rights holders is to
> > keep the works indefinitely out of the public domain by introducing
> > slight variations, re-issues and so on to renew the copyright to their
> > benefit, but to the detriment of everyone else.
> >
> > To see how absurd this is, imagine if patents worked the same way and
> > never ended up in the public sphere...  (not tha patent laws are
> > perfect)
> >
> > If, like me, you believe there is no creatio ex nihilo, being deprived
> > of building on what has come before us can only lead to cultural
> > stagnation.
> >
> > Sylvain
>
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