Yeah, more copyright stuff. But, this was bugging me until I finally finished it. So, here you go.

I should stem the tide now. I write for a living, I know all about intellectual property, and I've been plagiarized many times to boot. Personally, I don't care because when it comes down to it, they still come to me when they want quality. I got a video gig at Expert Village because the paintball community TOLD THEM to hire me, and isn't that the true power of the information age?

the point is that in the real world, I make something, I sell it, I make something else to sell. Somehow, these people have it in their heads that they can sell and resell the same product for 75 years, and never be touched. That makes about as much sense to me as, say, a donut maker telling me the same thing. So, you get my metaphor. A really tasty one too, I might add.

I also understand that the intellectual property laws are in place for a reason. But I also have a working understanding that the laws, as they are now, are broken. And this is a video making fun of the serious business type people who sit around tables and decide that some 10 year old kid putting a Linkin Park song in a video he made using World of Warcraft and "Win Movie Maker" is causing the band financial loss.

75 years plus the lifetime of the artist means we can't openly be inspired, or seek critique, or educate ourselves. If the Renaissance masters had to deal with this we wouldn't have the Mona Lisa. Copyright law needs an overhaul.

Links of interest :

Record industry faces liability over `infringement' : http://www.thestar.com/business/article/735096--geist-rec...

or basically, the record companies got busted for what they scream at us dirty internet users for doing to them. (less info)