They just make sure it's in proper English. I wonder what would happen if we did that for all posts and comments here...
My presiction is that darryl's head would finnally (sic) explode after seeing the extensive rewrites of his allways (sic) thotful (sic) expositions. But I digress...
Well, the problem is that it SHOULD be a simple concept, but IP laws have morphed to the point that even lawyers and judges can't agree what the hell it means.
This man obviously knows NOTHING about the history of music. A lot of the "great" (and I'm not being derisive) composers (most notably Bach) composed very quickly.
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Um.. there are SO many things wrong with your post that my brain got cramped trying to expel them. But as someone whose formal education is in music theory and performance, I can tell you point blank that ALL composers of any music copy from others. Whether they do it deliberately or not, they all copy. I have said in other posts, and I will say to you (assuming you're not the same person...) to name ANY song that you think is 100% original, and someone can find where it has copied something that had preceded it.
You stated that "Rembrandt, Renoir, Picasso, Pollack all painted portraits, but their art lies in how they painted those portraits, not the subject matter", music is EXACTLY the same. How a composer/performer treats a subject (melody, when it comes down to it) is what distinguishes them from each other. Tom Lehrer did a wonderful illustration of this with the folk song "Clementine" showing how it would have sounded had it been written by Mozart, Cole Porter, a 50's jazz musician, and Gilbert and Sullivan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b3coO_6MwY
The problem is that you practically need a law degree to understand copyright anymore, so the questions would have to be ridiculously simple for a layperson to be able to answer them.
2)the value of his master is lowered because instead of someonehaving to pay whatever insane price he charges for this song, they can get it for free. (the price of fine pieces of art is absolute proof.)
Um, I'm gonna call bullshit on this one. The prices of fine pieces of art actually proves the opposite. The originals of fine pieces of art command ridiculously huge amounts of money to collectors, because they are the ORIGINAL.
I can find digital copies of manuscripts of Mahler symphonies for free, but the original physical manuscripts will never be available to someone of my meager financial means.
In the scenario the OP described, it would actually make the original MORE valuable. If someone had made a digital copy of the master and released it into the wild and that recording got a lot of exposure, the master would be damn near priceless. How valuable do you think the master recordings of Beatles songs for example are. Not because whoever owns them can make money selling copies, but because they own the ONLY original. It's the scarcity of the master recording that makes it more valuable than the digital copies.
Um, not it won't. Ours is a family of 6 and we wouldn't pay $30 to watch a movie on PPV. If we didn't want to pay to watch it in a theater, we sure as hell aren't going to pay a premium to watch it on PPV, when we can wait and buy the damn DVD for less and watch it any number of times.
There may be some instances where this would fly (like the party scenario previously described) but unless families already watch a lot of PPV (and we don't) I don't see this as an attractive alternative to just releasing the damn thing on DVD.
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My presiction is that darryl's head would finnally (sic) explode after seeing the extensive rewrites of his allways (sic) thotful (sic) expositions. But I digress...
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I agree, however that would require them to actually put in effort because those other things are much harder to get done.
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This man obviously knows NOTHING about the history of music. A lot of the "great" (and I'm not being derisive) composers (most notably Bach) composed very quickly.
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Re: Art is alive and well - all the good ideas are not taken.
You stated that "Rembrandt, Renoir, Picasso, Pollack all painted portraits, but their art lies in how they painted those portraits, not the subject matter", music is EXACTLY the same. How a composer/performer treats a subject (melody, when it comes down to it) is what distinguishes them from each other. Tom Lehrer did a wonderful illustration of this with the folk song "Clementine" showing how it would have sounded had it been written by Mozart, Cole Porter, a 50's jazz musician, and Gilbert and Sullivan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b3coO_6MwY
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Um, I'm gonna call bullshit on this one. The prices of fine pieces of art actually proves the opposite. The originals of fine pieces of art command ridiculously huge amounts of money to collectors, because they are the ORIGINAL.
I can find digital copies of manuscripts of Mahler symphonies for free, but the original physical manuscripts will never be available to someone of my meager financial means.
In the scenario the OP described, it would actually make the original MORE valuable. If someone had made a digital copy of the master and released it into the wild and that recording got a lot of exposure, the master would be damn near priceless. How valuable do you think the master recordings of Beatles songs for example are. Not because whoever owns them can make money selling copies, but because they own the ONLY original. It's the scarcity of the master recording that makes it more valuable than the digital copies.
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Because, then the lawyers would have to find other ways to afford their mistresses.
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There may be some instances where this would fly (like the party scenario previously described) but unless families already watch a lot of PPV (and we don't) I don't see this as an attractive alternative to just releasing the damn thing on DVD.
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