Re: FLASH: x-mas song copyright INFO

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 11:10 AM 12/14/99 , you wrote:


>Don't mess around with copyrighted music on the web.  These days, the 

>sharks are

>looking to set precedents and make examples of people...

>

>Debbie Miller


Hi Debbie,


With all due respect, if I liked your Joe Montana Flash piece and, let's 

say, used it on a client's website and thereby made money off it, and you 

sued me, would that make you a shark "looking to set precedents and make 

examples of people"? I think not.


Artists have the right to determine how their art is used and who gets to 

profit from it, as well as the right to share in those profits. These 

rights vary from country to country, but there is pretty wide agreement 

that those rights do exist.


There is far more theft of art that could ever be litigated; that doesn't 

make it okay to steal, nor does it make it any less right for copyright 

holders to choose to enforce their rights. The fact that there are sharks 

out there looking to profit from copyright infringement is another matter. 

I would like to think that most people on this list will respect copyrights 

not out of fear of "the sharks" but out of respect for the artists.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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My Flash Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

(featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn)




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