Comments on: Photos of high-design furniture

By: D

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:21:13 +0000

Whatever happened to free advertising?
Last year, I read a blog by a musician who discovered his songs being uploaded to YouTube. He contacted the uploader and started a conversation. He then encouraged the uploader get all his friends to buy the whole album. Then they set up a gig for the band, which amounts to more recognition and more sales.
You can beat the tar out of your fans or you can ask them for money, but you cannot do both for long.

By: David Schwartz

David Schwartz — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:44:28 +0000

Imagine if this was a tattoo!

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:42:46 +0000

A cat may not record an image of an image of the king.

Is this any different, really, from the copyright tangles that ensue when a film company wants to create a DVD of a film that has–for instance–a scene with a TV show in the background or a tune on a jukebox for either of which copyright clearance and/or license must be obtained?

It strikes me that rather than the promotion of ideas, the original conception behind copyright, they are now exclusively used to protect the financial interests of the copyright holder.

By: boblipton

boblipton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:54:27 +0000

A cat may look at a king, but a cat may not look at a picture of a king.

Bob