29th September 2008, 12:21 PM
As an interesting aside, a while ago I read on someone's log that they think artists should have the right to say "don't do whatever you want to my stuff". That is, the guy specifically said someone who buys a painting shouldn't be allowed to burn it or display it in a manner that wasn't the original intent of the creator, and it should be considered a form of "copyright infringement".
Here's the kicker, the guy was making a mod patch for a game that never had any mod tools released. The guy was hacking it, without the consent of the original makers I'm sure, and the guy was demanding all this to "protect" his work?
Unfortunatly it was some time ago and I don't know the address of the site. Suffice it to say sometimes artists just demand way too much of copyright protection. Not even patents protect people to that extent. If you sell your portrait to someone, and they burn it, at most it's rude, but it's the risk you took when you sold it. It isn't yours any more, and you have no right to say how they should treat it beyond some something like, say, if burning it released toxic gas into the atmosphere or the guy paints over it and says that's what it always looked like to libel/slander the artist.
It's still hilarious that the guy was doing exactly what he said artists should be "protected from" and didn't seem to recognize that at all.
Here's the kicker, the guy was making a mod patch for a game that never had any mod tools released. The guy was hacking it, without the consent of the original makers I'm sure, and the guy was demanding all this to "protect" his work?
Unfortunatly it was some time ago and I don't know the address of the site. Suffice it to say sometimes artists just demand way too much of copyright protection. Not even patents protect people to that extent. If you sell your portrait to someone, and they burn it, at most it's rude, but it's the risk you took when you sold it. It isn't yours any more, and you have no right to say how they should treat it beyond some something like, say, if burning it released toxic gas into the atmosphere or the guy paints over it and says that's what it always looked like to libel/slander the artist.
It's still hilarious that the guy was doing exactly what he said artists should be "protected from" and didn't seem to recognize that at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)