[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Jun 30 14:15:08 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 30 June 2010 01:25:24 Louigi Verona wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:47 AM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
> > To be fair, do those games and movies depend currently on copyright?
> >
> > all the best,
> >
> > drew
>
> Hey drew!
> Yep, I think those do. My friend often writes music for Nintendo DS games,
> those are covered by copyright.
> But this is not the point because my friend never receives royalties, he
> gets a one time pay for his job.
> Also, I would argue that Nintendo DS games, for instance, rely more on
> being attached to the device rather
> than on copyright.
> Of course, one can say that if there was no copyright, then people would
> not want to release games and then
> no composer would be hired to write music for them. But this is a false
> argument as it implies that copyright
> is an incentive for making games, when its not. Games were created before
> copyright, they are created now
> and they will be created after copyright.

Sure. Notice I said: "depend currently"...

There are things that will work now in a transition phase that will not work 
so well after the transition is done. We need to be thinking about after the 
transition as well as during the transition. That's all.

all the best,

drew


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