basehead wrote:
quoted 5 lines if i put myself into something (and other artists too i would> if i put myself into something (and other artists too i would
> hope), and all of my time into it, why should it be just sitting
> there waiting to be stripped away from me for someone else to
> claim as their own? it's like copyrighting is protection against
> kidnapping of my child, in some ways.
I can't remember who it was -- Emma Goldman? Leon Trotsky? Malebranche?
-- that once said the following:
"Property IS theft."
And 'kids' grow up to become their own people, too -- they kidnap
*themselves.*
Wouldn't it be fascinating if a parent sued a child for copyright
infringement?
Or vice versa?
Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and all -- I guess views
on this would depend upon whether one wants to have ephemeral fame &
fortune or a massive transhistorical influence on culture. Should
Boeing and Lockheed channel a certain amount of royalties from every B-2
bomber sold to the remaining estate of the Wright Brothers?
Ways of the world.
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