> The problem is that videobloggers are going down the same hopelessly > unrealistic and ultimately disastrous path as the record labels and > movie companies.
That's quite a statement. One that I think is entirely wrong. I have no problem with you aggregating my video. Even if your site has google ads. I'm quite aware that my stuff is totally free as soon as I post it on blip. I just expect that giant media conglomerates, or their subsidiary investments (magnify, myheavy,nextnew networks, et al.) give me some kind of consideration as a content creator. If they are making millions, I want a share. If smaller entities are gaining notoriety, I want some of that; put a friggin' correct link on it for cryin' out loud. To say that expecting to get royalties off of large economic endeavors using our stuff is like a record company is standing reality on its head. It is the myheavys and magnifys that are acting like old school record companies; robbing artists of their hard work and creativity; screw the talent! Ron On Jan 27, 2007, at 10:41 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote: > 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? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
