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RE: Copyright and Plagiarism – Your Opinions Please.
As a fellow music producer, I don't think everything should be free. Free to access, maybe, but not free for distribution. The time and effort it takes to create a piece of art is not free to the creator. They're sacrificing precious time to work. Unless there were some kind of universal basic income, then nothing should be "free". If a person's content is being distributed then that distribution is proof of worth. It proves that it's beneficiary to the people distributing it and that they believe their own consumers will benefit from seeing it. Content creation should be rewarded, and royalties should be rewarded to the original content creator when their content is distributed.
Exactly!
Oh, also:
I believe that's the basis of Communism... ;)
Eh, more Marxism than Communism. Communism includes a dictatorship and hierarchy to control the wealth distribution, whereas equal wealth distribution is the fundamental model behind Marxism. Communism is Marxist Socialism on steroids.
To be frank, I'm not a fan of either, nor any political ideology to be honest.
The ideology only works if everyone is equal and willing to give the same 100% as the next guy. That doesn't often happen; to paraphrase Wesley Snipes' Blade character, 'Some asshole is always trying to ice-skate uphill.' In other words, the human being is intent on being unique and therefore, we don't all work the same way. Some are grafters, some are thinkers. Who then decides when 100% is the same as the next guy's?
Precisely. It only works as much as we allow it too, therefore nothing can be definitively labelled when considering more than one perception. Nothing is 100%. It is what it is.
50% of work done is done "free". Unintentionally often.
Anyway, neither author nor distributor have a god given right for getting paid for their work. Just saying. Because that means if everybody can do that work, you no longer can get paid for it and the "work" disappears. As have a lot of other professions.
as an Australian you should know better how to behave
I think you misreplyed. If you mean me: I never was in australia. Not even in austria, I think...
I did - my most humble of apologies - you did not deserve that over Christmas. I shall make a note and you will be surprised nicely in the future. I am having a battle against my treatment on steemit which is sad but true.
My very best wishes to you and your family for 2017.
Namaste.