Is this the five minute argument or the full half-hour?:-)
I can't be bothered to argue the semantics, but it is maybe worth pointing out that you can describe it as a combination of waveforms making up a single new waveform. This is evidently the 'expression' i.e. the unique combination from the creator/producer...
Commercial blockbusters drive many parts of the movie industry. Many people like them. If you don't, that's your problem. But don't seek to deny others the right to see them.
I was stating a fact. I'll repeat it if you don't understand - YOU CAN'T COPYRIGHT AN IDEA. Copyright is automatically created in the expression of that idea.
Of course a poem is a sequence of words etc. BUT they are also someone's unique expression of an idea. The words/colours/waveforms are not copyrightable - the expression of the idea is.
Your $2.91bn for sales may have cost $3bn to achieve for all I know - that's still a loss.
Still think it's greedy?
BTW the price to charge is based on what the market is prepared to pay. If it is too high people won't buy. If it is too low, you might sell a lot but never make any money. If people are prepared to pay $24.95 per DVD, then that IS the right price. Greed doesn't come into it. And if you don't want to pay that, wait - it will move to 'mid price' and then 'budget' in time...
Great, low-budget-and-art-house-movies 'r us meets the Karaoke Generation... who is going to invest in making commercial blockbusters with no copyright?
Your comments about copyrighting an idea is twaddle. You can't copyright an idea. Period.
Copyright law only protects the particular form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, and is not designed or intended to protect the actual concepts, facts, styles or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the ideas or information.
For example, the copyright which subsists in relation to the Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits third parties from distributing the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular talking mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about talking mice in general. Other forms of intellectual property may provide legal protection where copyright does not.
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They just didn't want your sort on it... ;-)
Is this the five minute argument or the full half-hour? :-)
I can't be bothered to argue the semantics, but it is maybe worth pointing out that you can describe it as a combination of waveforms making up a single new waveform. This is evidently the 'expression' i.e. the unique combination from the creator/producer...
And you misspelled "nose".
Commercial blockbusters drive many parts of the movie industry. Many people like them. If you don't, that's your problem. But don't seek to deny others the right to see them.
I was stating a fact. I'll repeat it if you don't understand - YOU CAN'T COPYRIGHT AN IDEA. Copyright is automatically created in the expression of that idea.
Of course a poem is a sequence of words etc. BUT they are also someone's unique expression of an idea. The words/colours/waveforms are not copyrightable - the expression of the idea is.
Maybe this is a bit too complicated for you...
Sales != Profit.
Your $2.91bn for sales may have cost $3bn to achieve for all I know - that's still a loss.
Still think it's greedy?
BTW the price to charge is based on what the market is prepared to pay. If it is too high people won't buy. If it is too low, you might sell a lot but never make any money. If people are prepared to pay $24.95 per DVD, then that IS the right price. Greed doesn't come into it. And if you don't want to pay that, wait - it will move to 'mid price' and then 'budget' in time...
And N.Ireland! http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/
We /do/ have Orange in N.I. - their slogan "the future is bright, the future is Orange" is not used though because of its political resonance!
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