Copyright allows all of us who can buy or obtain rights to property to charge as much money as we wish and to exclude anybody we want from using what we own. Including the original owner.
We don't need to be creative. Screw the creators. Take the rights and make money. Most stuff people buy is crap and the "creators" are crappy people to be used up and tossed away - there will always be more of those people. "Friends" is a perfect example: the actors are pretty (and stupid), the show's premise is summed up in the title - no creativity there. The public (stupid,stupud and more stupid) watch the show and buy whatever stuff is shown in ads. Now there is the creativity! But nobody fights over the copyright of ads - they sell a product and thne the product changes and new ads are needed. No copyright necessary because the product life is as short as the attention span of the average viewer.
Just open your wallet and attend "spiderman" and buy this year's spinoff merchandise. In a decade or less they will be worthless...but anybody stealing our "copyright" with a knockoff goes to jail. Saves us attorney's fees where we can have the taxpayers foot the bill for enforcing the laws that we use to take your money.
It is the oldest law: he who has the gold makes the rules.
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Only way to stop this kind of thing.
Copyright allows all of us who can buy or obtain rights to property to charge as much money as we wish and to exclude anybody we want from using what we own. Including the original owner.
We don't need to be creative. Screw the creators. Take the rights and make money. Most stuff people buy is crap and the "creators" are crappy people to be used up and tossed away - there will always be more of those people. "Friends" is a perfect example: the actors are pretty (and stupid), the show's premise is summed up in the title - no creativity there. The public (stupid,stupud and more stupid) watch the show and buy whatever stuff is shown in ads. Now there is the creativity! But nobody fights over the copyright of ads - they sell a product and thne the product changes and new ads are needed. No copyright necessary because the product life is as short as the attention span of the average viewer.
Just open your wallet and attend "spiderman" and buy this year's spinoff merchandise. In a decade or less they will be worthless...but anybody stealing our "copyright" with a knockoff goes to jail. Saves us attorney's fees where we can have the taxpayers foot the bill for enforcing the laws that we use to take your money.
It is the oldest law: he who has the gold makes the rules.
So long, fools.