What if we just rethought the whole idea of copyright itself.
If I understand it correctly, you the artist does a few hours/days/minutes work creating something, and then get payed royalties on it forevermore amen(especially after companies like Disney(tm) keep paying of your government to move out the date that stuff becomes public doamin).
If this is such a great idea, why shouldn't the rest of society enjoy the same rights? Lets pay the guy that built the sidewalk a royalty everytime the sidewalk gets used. Or the guy who build your microwave everytime you nuke something.
What makes artists(or more importantly the companies that own their work) deserve ongoing payment for work long since completed anymore than the guy that cleans up dog turds off the sidewalk?
What wouls happen if we abolished copywright law altogether?
"The artists would stop making music cause they wouldn't get paid for it" is the first argument that comes to mind. This is BS, since some of these "artists" get paid tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars for each concert they give.
Which, by the way, I'm fully in favor of. Paying Weird AL Yankovich $50,000 for a two hour concert is a great idea. Monies paid for time worked.
But paying someone forevermore for an hour's worth of work is ludicrous IMHO.
"But they put years into developing their talents that led to that one hour of "brilliance.""
Also another bad argument, because so did the guy who built the sidewalk, so by that reasoning he should get royalties too.
Nuff said.
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What if we just rethought the whole idea of copyright itself. If I understand it correctly, you the artist does a few hours/days/minutes work creating something, and then get payed royalties on it forevermore amen(especially after companies like Disney(tm) keep paying of your government to move out the date that stuff becomes public doamin). If this is such a great idea, why shouldn't the rest of society enjoy the same rights? Lets pay the guy that built the sidewalk a royalty everytime the sidewalk gets used. Or the guy who build your microwave everytime you nuke something. What makes artists(or more importantly the companies that own their work) deserve ongoing payment for work long since completed anymore than the guy that cleans up dog turds off the sidewalk? What wouls happen if we abolished copywright law altogether? "The artists would stop making music cause they wouldn't get paid for it" is the first argument that comes to mind. This is BS, since some of these "artists" get paid tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars for each concert they give. Which, by the way, I'm fully in favor of. Paying Weird AL Yankovich $50,000 for a two hour concert is a great idea. Monies paid for time worked. But paying someone forevermore for an hour's worth of work is ludicrous IMHO. "But they put years into developing their talents that led to that one hour of "brilliance."" Also another bad argument, because so did the guy who built the sidewalk, so by that reasoning he should get royalties too. Nuff said.