30 Jun
2010
30 Jun
'10
4:15 p.m.
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 01:25:24 Louigi Verona wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:47 AM, drew Roberts
<zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
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
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.