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Posted by Colin B on 12/09/06 09:08
"Christopher Campbell" <christophercampbell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C19F2D2D002A2028F0407500@news.wavecable.com...
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 06:15:06 -0800, Bill wrote
> (in article <ibOdnUGzArj_7uTYnZ2dnUVZ_vbinZ2d@golden.net>):
>
>>
>> When diesel trains were introduced, didn't the unions try to insist that
>> the stokers and firemen keep their jobs?
>>
>
> Stokers and firemen no longer had jobs. They were obsolete. And no one
> insisted that they continue to work without pay.
>
> You seem to think that performing artists should work without being paid,
> even though their jobs are not obsolete. They have not been replaced. They
> still entertain people.
>
> Your argument is akin to asking stokers and firemen to work without pay on
> coal locomotives for your personal benefit, simply because there are also
> diesel locomotives that do not need stokers and firemen.
>
> I do not care if buggy whip manufacturers go out of business because no
> one
> wants buggy whips any more. But I do care if musicians and actors are
> driven
> out of business because thieves steal all their work.
After reading the contributions in this thread, I doubt whether I will ever
submit any video to these web sites. I really don't want people to call me a
thief and start suing me. A while ago, I made a nice little video of a group
of music students playing together in a youth orchestra. I filmed this at
the request of one of the students and with the permission of the leader of
the group. But if I was to submit this to Youtube, I would first need to
ensure that I applied for copyright approval for all the music they played.
And I guess I would also need the approval of each and every one of the
students as well.
I know that most people wouldn't bother doing these things, but because you
have all told me that I would be a thief and would be personally liable if
one of the music composers didn't like hearing his music played by this
orchestra on internet, I won't upload the film to Youtube. One of the pieces
was by Mozart, but I'm not sure how I'll get his approval, he hasn't been
around for a while. In fact, I'm not even sure that I should give this video
to the student because I guess I would be responsible as the filmmaker if
she were to submit my film to Youtube without getting proper copyright
approvals first?
I also thought about uploading to Youtube some of my film of our young baby
daughter eating a meal and spreading all the food right across her face. We
all thought it was hilarious, but there's one problem, we had some music
playing in the background. Darn it, I can't upload this either because
someone will say I've stolen the music. I don't even know the name of the
piece of music that was playing or who the composer was, but it's not worth
the time trying to find out and then getting copyright approval. Sorry
world, you won't get to see my daughter after all, and of course, she
wouldn't approve either. At least the composer of this piece of music won't
be driven out of business as a result of my unintentional thieving of his
work.
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