Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You're not getting it: You can have it, anytime, by paying for it! It's out there! You can buy it! Or not! Your choice!
Whereas, without copyright protections, Walt Disney might have made his living selling tires, and there would be no cartoon to have! At all! You have no choice, because there is nothing to choose! See how it works?
This obsession with getting things for free needs to be excised from the collective consciousness. Nothing of entertainment value HAS to be free! That's a fringe benefit that will not destroy our society if it is not obtained.
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we can have them ? any time ? brilliant ! so nobody will mind then if then next big parody mash-up to be published is "steve jordan's science fiction story, now with smurfs" ? how about if someone wants to turn that into a movie ? to a soundtrack of music by the Beatles ? and with a cameo of Mickey Mouse ?
or maybe someone would like to publish, say, i don't know, a lexicon about the harry potter books. that would be all right, then ?
or how about some film students would like to do a remake of Gone with the Wind set in 2050 New York. no worries, right ? Margaret Mitchell's estate shouldn't have anything to say about that ?
all that stuff (and a lot more which is less ridiculous) is what abusively-long, bloated copyrights deprive SOCIETY of.
and given that every single one of the works i cited above is derivative of / inspired by works that came before it, i really have a hard time seeing how anyone can find it legitimate to refuse to return the favour and let the next generation build on their work, just like they built on the previous generations'.