about copyright

Well I'll sometimes hear a song or riff that sounds almost exactly the same as a song from another band. Every band is influenced by some other band/s to a greater or lesser degree. There's also lots of cover songs which to my mind is probably the greatest tribute you can pay to another band so I don't see anything wrong with that. Also a lot of bands start out as cover bands. But what you're saying is what if a band actually "steals" another band's music (let's say demo), and copies it note for note to claim it as their own... first of all, what kind of self-loathing, unimaginative and undignified band would you have to be in to do that? I don't even think that's possible, people would find out. and anyway, if there's no copyright you wouldn't be able to benefit from it like, say, the Beatles have what with royalties and all that. Maybe that's a bit naive, I haven't really given it much thought but that's all I've got right now.

 

Well in the case of art - you'd probably have to keep claiming every subsequent painting by that artist as your own because it wouldn't be hard to detect/ establish whether that is in fact your style of painting or somebody else's. There's a lot of debate now with A.I. art that can replicate an artist's style and yet produce originals. Not sure where that's gonna lead to.
EDIT: That's of course especially relevant for digital art. But I think the ridiculous prices that some of that art sells for deserves to be taken down a few notches and the market flooded by fakes.

 

I think most people will still give credit to the artist and ask permission.

 

Yes but I think the question in that debate is: who actually should get the copyright, the "artist" who fed the info to the AI in order to create said artwork or the AI? I know it's ridiculous, so in that case no-one should have the copyright.

 

Why not do real paintings and drawings on real media where you can then sign it? (actually you can still sign your digital art which can't be copied (the signature)).

 

I've said it before but in the frantic way these posts are appearing it's very likely that you didn't see it. I said I believe most people would still credit an artist for their work.

 

LOL I actually got pissed off with someone who used a particular psytrance track for his youtube clip and he didn't credit the artist. Some people were asking who the artist was. Eventually someone identified them. So I gave him some lip about that.

 

Well, I said to him (I'm paraphrasing): "you're using someone else's music for your video, which is fine - but at least mention who the artist is." No really I hate that. I've come across that a few times. Not just for the artists sake but also for the viewers' sakes. Like you might wanna know who the fuck the song is by. I don't care about asking anyone's permission to use their songs or whatever, just give them credit for it. It doesn't cost much