At the risk of sounding antisemitic, the majority of the people in the music industry are Jewish and always have been. Same people who screamed about the advent of CD's, videotapes and DVD's and now online music distribution. While the Japanese managed to work around it in the 90's by buying many of the Hollywood studios (Sony, Panasonic etc. bought out MGM and Paramount etc.), I realized that those very studios are pretty much still run by the same cabal of Hollywood insiders. For anyone to condemn and take down a fair use video such as this one is despicable in general and evil in particular when you consider the source of the complaints.
How we managed to get into this situation of being expected to pay for something each time you hear it is beyond me. As a visual artist, I have no expectation of anyone being required to pay me each time someone walks past a painting of mine and looks at it - same analogy. Or how about this example: I do an illustration that gets used for a billboard campaign for an advertiser? Should I get paid for views like clicks on an online ad? Yet, they use a jingle for a commercial and heaven help the advertiser if they forget to pay the artiste for one single missed listener!
I hope the new paradigm of the Internet will finally begin to change an antiquated approach that's been in place for way too long already. Am I missing something here?
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