10-01-2013, 04:11 PM
That's because on the web, you aren't on the street, trying to make a name for yourself.
And I'm 100% in favor of it. I've been on both sides. I'm a digital designer, wishing, and wanting that I could do more with some of the truly awesome "mash ups" that I've done, but know I can't.
And I'm a musician, who has paid my dues, and would expect, that if someone is wanting to use my song, that I'm getting compensated for it. I wrote it. I did it. I'm just asking for recognition of my work.
Hell, as a band, we had a song that was close enough in idea to a popular song by a band called the Deftones, that we contemplated not recording it, because we weren't sure how we felt about it being that close. It wasn't a rip off, it was never intended to be a rip off. But in the end it sounded at the very least "inspired" by. In the end we ended up recording it, but only having a couple of people who were intimately familiar with the original subject matter listen to it, and said they didn't feel that it was as close as we did.
Calvin and Muad'Dib being served a DMCA is the right thing to do. It may suck, but it doesn't trample on free speech. it doesn't trample on anyone's rights. Not serving it, would have been in the interest of the site, but not of the original creator.
And I'm 100% in favor of it. I've been on both sides. I'm a digital designer, wishing, and wanting that I could do more with some of the truly awesome "mash ups" that I've done, but know I can't.
And I'm a musician, who has paid my dues, and would expect, that if someone is wanting to use my song, that I'm getting compensated for it. I wrote it. I did it. I'm just asking for recognition of my work.
Hell, as a band, we had a song that was close enough in idea to a popular song by a band called the Deftones, that we contemplated not recording it, because we weren't sure how we felt about it being that close. It wasn't a rip off, it was never intended to be a rip off. But in the end it sounded at the very least "inspired" by. In the end we ended up recording it, but only having a couple of people who were intimately familiar with the original subject matter listen to it, and said they didn't feel that it was as close as we did.
Calvin and Muad'Dib being served a DMCA is the right thing to do. It may suck, but it doesn't trample on free speech. it doesn't trample on anyone's rights. Not serving it, would have been in the interest of the site, but not of the original creator.
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