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We both created stuff we didn't expect to be paid for - these emails.
On 3 Jul 2002 at 20:49, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
True. But somehow I fail to see how one can scale this sort of reasoning to entail anything approaching one of the current TOP10 movies.
First, lost of people make plays, music, ballet, etc, without expectation of turning a profit from copyright. Partly it is to impress the chicks, partly to sell idea, and sell stuff. The Powerpuff movie is largely funded by toymakers. Secondly, if everyone had a chip containing all the movies and television shows that were ever made, would it be such a disaster if movie production declined? Most movies, and most music videos are just copycat stuff. In the course of channel surfing I recently saw the latest singer chick, made up like Suzi Quatro, doing a total ripoff of Suzi Quatro's version of "I love rock and roll", using very similar props to Suzi Quatro. Did we really need the extra version? Would it not be better if we had better access to the original (and much better) version. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG cViyObtLN5BKiheTPxywftMCkfzYp19VoUGNbStu 2J8LQiLfHEVpAn5S63xnIH6XUNss3bIzaSNfvdCvv