spacetownsavior wrote:
and thus cm.o learned of vaporwave
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^ Hahaha
baudtack wrote:
If someone remixed something I released, and it blew up and they made millions, whether or not I'd be upset isn't the question. The question is should I have legal protection from that happening and I'd say no. I'm willing to sacrifice those possible rights for what I see as the greater good of having free access to work with music. I think this is just a fundamental philosophical difference between us. If you can't tell by now I'm a bit of a socialist anyway.
The problem is that what you are suggesting is subject to abuse. Just imagine if you made an ambient song and someone added a drum track over it, called it a remix and sold it and made thousands of dollars. How would most people feel in a situation like that? I don't know if there is a "greater good" in a situation like that when you consider the fact that most people would feel cheated if the law allowed others to exploit their work in this way. In order for you to say that it would be for the greater good you would have to weigh the distress such a thing would cause against the cultural benefits that you are suggesting, and I don't think the odds are in your favor. I think it would be very easy to make money by exploiting other people's work and thus it would discourage a lot of people from making music.