about copyright

I mean if you're cool with people not crediting you for your music, that's cool. But not everyon is cool with that.

 

Personally I'm not too uptight about credit for myself either. I mean it's nice to get credit but I'm not gonna be mad about it (for myself). I have signed pictures that I've drawn to be published (on a website, nothing major and not for money) and I wouldn't upload a picture to an online gallery without signing it. Would you?
But I always try to credit other people for their work. I just feel it's the right thing to do.

 

Like if I upload an album I don't feel I have to list all the band members and former band members for example, I don't feel that's necessary, anyway they're listed on the record cover anyhow but for (another) example, if I use someone's review, I'll credit them or their blog. It also gives the blog a bit more exposure, however small. I mean we help each other in the punk scene.
EDIT: Unless I got the review from Discogs or Last FM or something, I couldn't care less about crediting those sites lol.

 

Yeah you said you're trying to understand why it might be important to some people. Maybe it's ego, I don't know. But is that such a bad thing? It doesn't automatically mean you're an egocentric egomaniac to want credit or recognition for the work you've done.
Why do band members list their names on their albums? Why does the person that draws the cover sign their name on it?

 

Yay! I'm glad you do I'm glad you can relate!

 

the only punk band taht has actually had a problem with copy right and the lead singer jumped a store selling a bootleg and said if he saw it again he would kill them

 

Which band was that? Crass?

 

I just looked it was Sakevi in GISM

 

Damn... didn't know that. No, cos Crass also have a problem with copyright. <EDIT: or rather: don't have a problem with copyright. END EDIT> Not all members, but Steve Ignorant and others. Sorry I don't feel like fact-checking now. But you can read some of this shit: https://www.anarcho-punk.net/threads/crass™-©-artworks-are-copyrighted-its-official.16399/
and here:
Crass: Capitalist traitors using copyright laws against Anarcho-Punk.Net - 3000 albums deleted because of these greedy selfish sellout bastards

 

oh damn I met steve recently I know rimbaud hates it when they play the old songs but wtf 3k deleted holy shit

 

A problem here is the assumption that copyright protects small artists, which it does not. All copyright is is a tool for the capitalist class to enclose as much as they can.