Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
quoted 20 lines Erkki Rautio <trerra@uta.fi> writes:
> Erkki Rautio <trerra@uta.fi> writes:
>
> > OK, this guy representing Sony wrote to me afterwards to ask the
> > permission (note: after they had already put the discog to their
> > page), and I didn't know what to do except say to yes, since I just
> > thought it's great if it can give more international coverage to
> > Jimi, being a local Finnish artist who I want to naturally support
> > any way I can. Later I got some second thoughts about this thing,
> > though.
>
> As someone who's had "my" discography
> (<URL:http://www.evo.org/eyesore.html>) copied extensively; linked to
> from all over the placed; published on cd-rom by other people and so
> on, I find this possessiveness displayed by some people here a bit
> silly. I did the discography to provide a service to the community,
> not to become "famous", not to make people "grateful", not to make
> money. If people find a way to make use of what I've done in creative
> ways I haven't foreseen -- great! The point (for me, at least) is to
> have the (hopefully useful) information accessible for the people who
> might need it.
Well, this is what is say to everyone: by all means link my pages all
you want, mirror my discographies and the pics, since they are not "mine"
in the first place. I'm not that possessive: in fact I would be flattered :)
What is mine, though, IMHO, is the *work* I've done and the trouble I've seen
in gathering this material together, so I'd like to get some credit, at least.
That would make me very happy. And what makes me sad, of course, is the idea
that someone else makes money on the work I've done. But that's the spirit of
capitalism and free enterprise, isn't it, and I shoudn't complain if I want to
be in that game myself? ;) I believe, first and foremost, that information
wants and *should* be free. But just gimme some credit for what I've done,
man :)
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> larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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