We Are Creators Too: Nina Paley

[almishti]

Most artist's operate under contracts to majorc orporate organizations, whether a record label , film production company, publishing co., ad agency, etc. The corporation the artist WORKS FOR gets the lion's share of the profit via licensing, like when you hear an artist's song on a commercial. Most of these co.s are very careful to take steps to keep the artist from being able to own the rights to their own work. The 75 year span is because WALT DISNEY keeps lobbying to protect Mickey.

[gdewdat]

Karma. May god have mercy on your soul. Jai Shri Ram!!!!

[SoldierMaxx]

This is not copying, this is insulting. YOU SUCK!

[viciouscargo]

♫ Copying can be theft.♫ Stealing these things leaves less pay left. Copying doesn’t settle the score if payment’s received no more. ♫ Copying can be theft.♫ If I copy yours I pay no dues and the artist or writer is feeling blue – that’s what copies can do. If I protect my content, you’ll better understand how hard we work to make the stuff that’s so high in demand! Not paying for a thing, that is what’s called “copying” Sharing content with everyone -for artists, is just no fun. ♫

[SabStudiosMusic]

everyone who obtains intellectual property without proper means of payment should rot in hell because they are aiding in the loss of THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN JOBS..... this is not the democracy America is supposed to be...where we hurt fellow citizens livelihoods by being ignorant to the fact that intellectual property creation is a job and without being subsizdized one way or another will hurt OUR CULTURAL CAPITAL and that CC my friends, is WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT

[TheBadAuntie]

@SabStudiosMusic

Are you stupid? There is so much I could address here, but the beauty of Copyright is that it protects the ARTIST'S work in their own LIFETIME. Which is why copyrights lapse and writing and music become public domain.

[TruthInjector]

People can freely make new works. People can also boycott the larger media companies, of which they are extremely vulnerable to. People just simply making the decision not to support organizations that have essentially decided to behave like criminals and work against far more vital interests and rights such as our fundamental freedoms.

[TruthInjector]

New York state cannot have it's own copyright laws. This would impact interstate trade.States cannot do that due to fundamental constraints on such things in the Constitution.

[TheBabyAnimalChannel]

Well, so if I'm a movie house and I'm about to invest millions to bring a director's and writer's vision to life, knowing that then some INDIVIDUAL can copy the film having contributed NOTHING to its creation and actually SELL IT FOR LESS THAN I NEED TO TO RE-COUP MY INVESTMENT????????? WHAT????? And is Paley worried she can't use something somebody else made in her artwork? Or is she worried she can't SELL THE COPY OF THEIR WORK FOR HER OWN GAIN? Cant she be content to use but not sell????

[kotraquin]

music copyrights lasting longer then 75 yrs is bull

[pigburn]

@kotraquin 75 after the creator's death! The whole "copyright works to support the artists" argument goes down the drain.

[animateclay]

Saying that copying should be legal in every form takes away the rights of individual creators to decide. If you take away rights of individuals, you also can take away their rights to freely share works as well. Yes you can have success by using Ninas viral marketing "free" methods. What if one day though she is writing a screen play. It's half completed and she wants to keep it secret, but someone freely copies her work. Then they make her film before she does and gets credit?

[animateclay]

@animateclay It's not such a simple problem as Nina makes it out. Sometimes copyright is used in bad ways, there's no doubt. But there are many more stories of copyright being used for creators of property to get the credit and money they deserve for the fruits of their labor.

[redking15ca]

@animateclay

Companies that count number of downloads as money lost crack me up.

Most people who can actually afford a $20 movie ticket will not go through the hastle of downloading it.

Of course, if it's a shitty movie I CAN SEE PEOPLE DOING THIS

If movie companies aren't competing we will just feel sorry for them and give them a tax payers bail out, they shouldn't feel so bad.

[EltonJThe]

Copyright is all about control. That's the problem.

[vixter1980]

Nina Paley is a disgrace to art and humanity. Very soon she will be sorry for what shes done!!!!

[pigburn]

@vixter1980 Wanna bet?

[DarkwingScooter]

I am a creative artist myself. I am glad that the creative commons exists, I will be using it it the future.

Copyright is a tax on society and culture.

[aachelabelaaron]

i should have said "... corporations aggregate", sorry.

[aachelabelaaron]

scarcity increases monetary value, like whole sale destruction of endangered species increasing the profit for poachers. we have no barbarians to destroy our culture behind us... therefore corporate aggregates cultural objects and matter, for the express purpose of letting it rot, so the current objects and matter that they schill are worth more money. in a way this is an overt acknowledgement that the music, films etc., the corporate producers make now, are not as good as that in the past.

[swedanica]

Copyrights limits creativity.

Thank you Art and Nina Paley