RE: Does Steemit count as commercial usage of content?
please check this out it's from negativeland 1992
youtube.com/watch?v=lcKEzGFfOxE "Crosley Bendix Discusses the US Copyright Act"
i didn't include the "https://www." bcos for some reason the interface here on steemit acts stupid when i link vids and blocks out the text i type. Ok so traditional copyright and distribution are dead PERIOD. have been for awhile. The problem people are having is how to hang on to power once had and what is next. To the first part you can't. To the second part we aren't sure. Here is what doesn't work deluding ourselves and each other that what is broken or on a course of certain failure is worth continuing with no effort to change. Use whatever you want however you want as far as you are able the system has not figured much out in regards to these things at this stage. what was once illegal now whould not be and what once was right or wrong in regards to theft is now a sort of sharing. have a moral compass as best you can
This sounds like what an Objectivist would say that the highest moral objective is his own happiness and to achieve it to use whatever means necessary.
And this is what makes humans evil and greedy that they would take whatever they want, use whatever they want in order to survive.
This is the reason why we pushing ourselves to extinction as the I persona is the only thing that matters.
Please don't give me the BS that governments and entities are stifling freedom and choice that there must be change and so Copyright and intellectual properties are but chains we put into other people.
Someone worked hard on a piece, someone waited in the rain to take a shot, someone worked on a theorem that changed the world. Is it bad to attribute it to creators I don;t think so because you are valuing their contribution.
Even the most decentralized piece of technology Bitcoin and the first design of the blockchain technology is still attributed to the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto.
You have your opinion and I have my opinion and by stating that
then it shows we are on the other side of the spectrum on this matter and will not agree.
Exactly! I work hard at what I do - not so that others can take it "just because it is there." My freedom to earn a living is being stifled by those who think it is OK to take my work and not bother to pay a licensing fee if they think it is worth using!
I'll embed the video here: (also, use https://busy.org, it's a better interface)
I share your views somewhat, and I very much agree with your arguments. I feel like people are being way too conservative in their assessments of propriety and we end up in difficult situations such as this one. The nature of memes is for them to be shared unattributed, and they're usually made from what would be considered "copyrighted material".
Is the whole of reddit, 4chan and 9gag based off picture piracy? I think it's more of an evolution of the rewriting principle of humanity. Everything we have is a remake. We take what is around us and we mold it to be our own original work.
However, I also believe that we should try to give authors as much credit as possible because we would like, as well, to be given credit as much as possible when our works are taken for other purposes.
But if a writing I make ends up in the hands of millions of people who have forgotten my name, I don't want some auntie whipping their child for telling the story of a long-lost author without proper attribution.