Maybe it's too early in the morning and I haven't had enough coffee, but I'm struggling with what you've said here.
Until there is demand, something is worth absolutely zero. In fact, it could be valued negatively - land for example. The government says it's worth X, and taxes you on it. No one is going to give you X for it. So at this point, you are paying Y%, so the worth of the land is zero minus Y% of X. This is also the whole basis of one man's trash is another man's treasure.
So really, I guess my point is that the sample for "Hard Knock Life" was, at one point, worth zero. It wasn't going to make money in that sampled realm, until Jay-Z decided to do something with it. If he had used it, and not paid for it... Who would it really have hurt? Would the "owners" have "lost" anything? Nope.
Hell, if I was Jay-Z, and was negotiating something like this, I would ask for concessions from the original songwriters, that if they see a 5% or more bump in sales within a year of his release, then they pay him a percentage of their earnings for that year. Why? Because he's adding value to THEIR property. Going back to the land example... You think those homes built by Extreme Home Makeover don't get taxed at the new worth?
No, the sample had a worth of (really) zero. If I tell you I'm going to use a 3 second blip of your song, that should be enough, and you should hope that you're going to get a bump out of it.
I'm sorry if that doesn't make sense. As I said... Still waking up, and may need more coffee.
I'm inclined to agree. They do look similar enough to be part of the same "line".
Now, my guess is that they wouldn't be anywhere near each other. The big distributors usually don't get crowded together, and get plenty of space. Plus, in many cases, the distributor is nearly (if not totally) in charge of their display area.
Except in the case of where those genes can't be controlled, like... Corn, Soybeans, and the like. Why should farmers, not wanting to grow with Monsanto, destroy their seed just because wind blew pollen from a Monsanto farm?
Just wait until you get some genetic modification done. When you have a kid, and that trait is carried forward, you'll have to sign a EULA at the kid's birth, and probably pay some exorbitant fee. And... What happens if you refuse to pay? Does the company get your kid?
I remember working at CA during all of this. It was very entertaining from an employee's point of view. We all knew the silliness that went on with back-dating deals... Thank god I was just a consultant and didn't do squat with billing and sales.
Yeah. My company put out some stupid policy on what I could post on social networks... So I yanked them and their URL off the list of current and former employers. It's one of my social connections, and I'll talk them up or talk shit about them if I want to, just like I would in any other situation. I'm careful not to "name names", but that's as far as it goes - I still bitch or applaud.
You must just be used to it from all the partisan politics in mainstream media to begin with. The second and third sentence in the story are both very obviously political opinions.
And yes, this is OUR dirt. Without us, the fans, there would be no Techdirt. You think Mike pulls everything from the clouds? This is a community that Mike put together here.
Second sentence: The latest comes from a lobbying group called "Citizens Against Government Waste." Hmmmm... Yep. That's definitely a political opinion there... Wait. How? The third sentence: As you can expect with most groups that call themselves "Citizens Against" something, the group tends to focus on issues that favor corporations, rather than citizens. I can see where you're saying that... But I would suspect that it is CAGW's arguments against open source software that REALLY pisses Mike off... Have a look at the SourceWatch page.
And no. It's not your TechDirt. Mike might just write this for his own sanity - not yours. Just because there is a "community" here, doesn't change the fact that this is TechDirt's article. Not yours. And your comment is TechDirt's, as is mine.
As a personal Linux/MySQL/Tomcat user, and a corporate Solaris/Oracle/Weblogic user... I can't wait for Oracle to choke on the Sun acquisition. I've hated them from day one, with their craptastic support system (Sun wasn't much better, mind you), and the mightier-than-thou attitude that they've always taken.
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Until there is demand, something is worth absolutely zero. In fact, it could be valued negatively - land for example. The government says it's worth X, and taxes you on it. No one is going to give you X for it. So at this point, you are paying Y%, so the worth of the land is zero minus Y% of X. This is also the whole basis of one man's trash is another man's treasure.
So really, I guess my point is that the sample for "Hard Knock Life" was, at one point, worth zero. It wasn't going to make money in that sampled realm, until Jay-Z decided to do something with it. If he had used it, and not paid for it... Who would it really have hurt? Would the "owners" have "lost" anything? Nope.
Hell, if I was Jay-Z, and was negotiating something like this, I would ask for concessions from the original songwriters, that if they see a 5% or more bump in sales within a year of his release, then they pay him a percentage of their earnings for that year. Why? Because he's adding value to THEIR property. Going back to the land example... You think those homes built by Extreme Home Makeover don't get taxed at the new worth?
No, the sample had a worth of (really) zero. If I tell you I'm going to use a 3 second blip of your song, that should be enough, and you should hope that you're going to get a bump out of it.
I'm sorry if that doesn't make sense. As I said... Still waking up, and may need more coffee.
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Now, my guess is that they wouldn't be anywhere near each other. The big distributors usually don't get crowded together, and get plenty of space. Plus, in many cases, the distributor is nearly (if not totally) in charge of their display area.
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Just wait until you get some genetic modification done. When you have a kid, and that trait is carried forward, you'll have to sign a EULA at the kid's birth, and probably pay some exorbitant fee. And... What happens if you refuse to pay? Does the company get your kid?
Man. We took that step onto a slippery slope.
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And no. It's not your TechDirt. Mike might just write this for his own sanity - not yours. Just because there is a "community" here, doesn't change the fact that this is TechDirt's article. Not yours. And your comment is TechDirt's, as is mine.
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