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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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.
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Personally, I don't feel in the least bit deprived for NOT getting those examples above
. But my point is,
yes, you can do those things. You just have to pay for the rights. What the hey... it's just money. Don't want to pay? Do something else. Hopefully something
better.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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'.
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You know, just because copyright law says you
have to come to me and ask to use
Verdant Skies to put Smurfs on board... doesn't mean I
have to charge you to do it. I could say, "Sure, go ahead... and please put in a text that Verdant Skies is used with permission by Steve Jordan."
But if I
did charge for it... how does that ruin society? And if you
didn't create your derivative work... how does that ruin society?
And why doesn't
ignoring my personal rights as a creator ruin society? Aren't I a legitimate part of your society? Or am I just an artistic stooge, for society to force creations out of with a crack of the whip, then back to the stables until they want something else out of me?