Thursday, February 26, 2009
Don't be such cheapskates, please
In Sweden there's a huge legal process going on right now against a group of people that call themselves The Pirate Bay. I'm usually pro pirates, but these so called pirates are completely different from Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean (awesome movie by the way). Instead of stealing from the rich and give to the poor which is like normal pirate procedure, these computer nerds steal from hard working artists like myself and give to no one but themselves. Us actors deserve to get paid for busting our asses in the movies. Making a movie is a difficult process. You may have to be away from home for long periods, sometimes you have to get up early in the morning, you have to think about what you eat and work out a lot, you might have to be outside while its raining, and so on, I can probably come up with a thousand reasons why we should get paid. It can be really hard to learn your lines for instance. I hope those pirate bay-guys end up in jail for life. If you don't want to do the time, then don't do the crime, dork.
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I am really shocked by your comments on pirate bay. I totally support their actions. I understand that artists must be paid for what they do but you have to be aware that culture, creativity and art are killed by actual laws on copyright.
ReplyDeleteCorporations (mostly US ones) changed the copyright rules during the 20th century to be proprietors of the common human culture such as European stories. For instance Disney is the owner of the “happy birthday” song which has been created by two German women on the 19th century! Do you think this is really fair to copyright that kind of cultural creations which are, in fact, the propriety of humanity?
During the 19th century copyrights were owned by creator of a work during 14 years. Then the creation fell into public domain and young creators/artists had the right to remix works, to enrich cultural life and to boost creativity. Nobody can create without learning from past works (just read the cave allegory of Platon).
Today copyrights are owned by the creator of a work during 75 years after her/his death and during 90 years after the death of a corporation which is the owner of a work rights (such as Disney). You should watch the following movie: RIP a remix manifesto which gives a lot of information about how culture is spoiled by corporations and dumb laws. Money is not really given to artists but mostly reach the producers’ bank account.
By the way, I am not a pirate who downloads illegally works and I know very well the status of artist since my husband is musician in a country where they have no legal existence.
All the best for your future career.