Rebecca Black was famous, but then she claimed IP over her famous vid Friday. She initiated her own takedown. And it is true: if you don’t want other people to “steal” your idea or song or whatever, there is a solution: don’t make it public. But then, all the fun ends.
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Isn’t it ironic? Don’tcha think?
I remember something similar to this happening with the whole rick roll meme. Rick Astley(sp?) was trying to capitalize on how “popular” his song got.
What these people don’t realize is part of the reason they became popular is that their creations were freely consumable.
Ironic indeed! And if her nearly accidental fame comes crashing down to zero as a result of her copyright claim, ha, ha, ho, ho, may she spend the rest of her life as an obscure file clerk in the U.S. Copyright Office where she can really celebrate the arrival of Friday. Rebecca who?
Kickin’ in the free-see
Switchin’ to the IP
Gotta make my mind up
Which way can I get pay?
It’s IP, IP
Gotta get down on IP
Nobody’s lookin’ forward to the payin’, payin’
IP, IP
Gettin’ down on IP
Nobody’s lookin’ forward to the payin’
Indeed, I predict a new round of parodies. See, she’s stimulating creativity by shooting herself in the foot.
I burst out laughing when I read this. The best case scenario would be if she stopped any innovation so the whole thing can hurry up and die. I would love to see her go to court and have to play clips of her song over and over again. The punishment they would inflict on the so called theif would be making him listen to Friday a dozen times clockwork orange style.
That would be awful. I listened to my favorite song twice in a row and it ruined it for me forever.
I don’t know how much money she earned from that song, but she should be thanking everyone for making fun of her song. If people didn’t love to make fun of her song AND have the ability to make fun of it and view it at will she would be a no-name just like the rest of us. I know she went on a couple shows, so I’m sure she got some sort of money from that. I hope her dream is to be a famous singer and I hope this decision destroys her dream.
Rebecca Black’s Friday Vanishes From YouTube Amidst Legal Battle – International Business Times
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Leave it up to Time magazine for Orwellian gymnastics:
That’s right. She’s looking out for people who want to view the video…by banishing it from YouTube. Didn’t you hear? Freedom is slavery.
No, see, by making it rental, they can find whether it has any market value, and thus determine whether she should make any more videos in her career based on the number of people who pay $2.99 to … (sorry, had to stop laughing) … watch the video. By having it YouTube-only, viewing was free, so it didn’t give them much of an indicator. (nice catch, BTW)
I have no idea what any of that is supposed to mean.
An idea is a success when everybody copies it and inspires themselves from it. If you keep an idea for yourself and never divulge it, then you in fact killed it. To try and make money out of your idea is to simply hindering your idea’s unlimited possibilities of success.
What’s great however is that I found out that there is a contradiction between ideas and people. Is it really the person who had a great idea or is it the great idea who elected that person as his original speaker ?
If a person refuses to divulge an idea or is too greedy and tries to profit from it to a point where it no longer spreads, the idea will find somebody or some other means to make it’s way into the world, to thrive and spread.
Ideas belong to themselves, not to people. When people have great ideas, they should also have the humility to recognize that they did not come up with this idea alone, that in fact it’s the culmination of all the circumstances across eons that made it so that this idea has chosen the person to be it’s speaker.
If I would ever get a great idea, I would want to spread it free of charge out of recognition and gratitude towards the idea for the great honor it would have granted me by choosing me.
People discover ideas, much like an explorer looking for ore to mine. Over the ages, we’ve learned where to look for certain ideas, better ways of recognizing them, and how to refine the ore into the idea. Being discoveries, more than one person can find an idea and is likely to, since people tend to look in the same general areas.
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