[lit-ideas] Re: As the World Turns
- From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 21:30:42 +0700
John McCreery wrote:
"Phil Enns apparently missed the proposal to enforce copyright for
professional work, create a free zone for amateur remix, and get to
work on developing a new definition of fair use for hybrid uses where
amateur and professional work intersects."
No, I got that, but as the speaker himself admits, these are the easy
parts. What about companies like Microsoft and Apple who encourage
and make use of volunteers to improve their own products and services?
Who 'owns' these 'contributions'? Or sites like YouTube where
amateurs will remix the work of professionals in a way that increases
the value of YouTube? A free zone for amateur remix is easy, a
for-profit site that hosts amateur remix is less so.
Take the speaker's example of Star Wars mashups. Lucas film provides
the footage of Star Wars movies for people to create mashups.
However, whatever these people create, Lucas has exclusive rights to
it. So whatever the amateur creates in his remix, it is 'owned' by
Lucas. Having raised this obviously unjust situation, the best the
speaker can do is note that it is indeed unjust and hopefully there
will be changes in the legal system. And that's all we get. The guy
is a lawyer who has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about these
issues, and the best he gives us is that changes need to be made? I,
personally, find that unsatisfactory. So, again, I wonder what John
found to be amazing?
John:
"Personally, I rather like this sort of presentation. A damn sight
more interesting than utterly vacuous 'transcendental' arguments."
Wow. Somebody is a bit grumpy.
Phil Enns
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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