Copyright, whatever!

There's a new theory that copyright isn't valid anymore. with youtube and blogging and everything web 2.0, ideas are more fluid than ever. File sharing controversy. Is remixing media copyright violation? what about spoof movies? Has copyright run crazy?

As an artist I like to think that I own the ideas I've created not just the paper and canvas and material used to make the ideas into physical things that can be bought or sold. what happens when everything is created online and there ceases to be any physical product to be sold? Property, is the issue, when does an idea become purchaseable property? Do only the gadgets we own deserve to have a price on them? By blogging this instead of putting it in a book mean it's less valuable? (not that there's anything special about this rant) This is not an original idea, I'm not the first. so this idea isn't mine, should I be sued for copyright violation?

anyway, the point

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

tangent (watch the planes, they are flying backwards!!! when did we lose that tech?)

here's the kicker, where's the money????

filesharing, could be argued that it steals money from the original artist, or even software company. Filesharing is indeed wrong, sorry, not everything is free folks. Artists deserve to be compensated for their work. That illegal copy of Adobe CS4, well, guess what, not good.

youtube and the rest are at best free advertising for all the content on it, all publicity is good publicity. to use youtube, you don't have to pay anything, the creators of its content aren't being paid per click or any other way. The only thing lacking is they should reference the source material. without money, there is no legal harm. <--could be wrong, not up on all the laws, need to fix that, I'll update with more info.

© C-Art 2009

In the Begining There was Darkness

God's reaction to darkness was to create light, the opposite of dark.
I wonder if darkness was pissed about that? Did it think, "hey, I'm the status quo here, how dare you corrupt me with your. . . (disgusted tone here, like choking on a pork rine) light!"