Goldsmith and Clasen absolutely should’ve been compensated! Copying someone else’s work and photoshopping it (or whatever) is not creating. If they’d done it just to have something cool on their living room wall, fine. But to rake in astronomical profits?? And not even offer to credit the creator of the original work that they appropriated??? It boggles my mind.
Not sure how it all got so complicated. If I create something you can only use it if I say so. The only way one gets around that is if the right people with the right money (read: more than I have) can work copyright to their advantage. It is a swindle, plain and simple.
It does seem unnecessarily complicated, doesn't it? I wonder if we started over, would we end up protecting copyright the same way we do now? Probably not. So how'd we get here?
Goldsmith and Clasen absolutely should’ve been compensated! Copying someone else’s work and photoshopping it (or whatever) is not creating. If they’d done it just to have something cool on their living room wall, fine. But to rake in astronomical profits?? And not even offer to credit the creator of the original work that they appropriated??? It boggles my mind.
Not sure how it all got so complicated. If I create something you can only use it if I say so. The only way one gets around that is if the right people with the right money (read: more than I have) can work copyright to their advantage. It is a swindle, plain and simple.
It does seem unnecessarily complicated, doesn't it? I wonder if we started over, would we end up protecting copyright the same way we do now? Probably not. So how'd we get here?