On 1/27/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even accepting reality for what it is, however, there are > many good reasons to continue to push for our rights as creators to > be sacrosanct.
The problem is that videobloggers are going down the same hopelessly unrealistic and ultimately disastrous path as the record labels and movie companies. What's driving you is the same misplaced sense of victimization and and righteous anger. Creators don't have sacrosanct rights in the US (except with regard to attribution). That's not just a little wrong, it's wrong in a way which is important. If creators were to be granted sacrosanct rights it would be a massive expansion of copyright at the expense of the public. And not just at the expense of the public, but also at the expense of creators. The 500,000 YouTubers who you want to prevent from mashing up your video have just as much right to make art as you do. If what's at stake is the loss of 500,000 artworks, why does your work trump theirs?
