There was a bit of paraphrasing, and I was phrasing it from the perspective of the copyright owner. But it is fairly equivalent.
I create a lot of copyrighted content, both for the company that I work for, and with my hobbies. I agree that there are problems with copyright, mostly that it is too long.
I even agree that some of the things they talk about are problems, but that they need to be dealt with by contract law or expectation of privacy law, not trying to scoop copyright into it too.
I think that there is also some disagreement about the level of art involved in photography, which I will fight on.
As far as I know, Elvis didn’t steal any songs or lyrics directly from the Bluesmen, he listened to them, loved what he heard, and started making his own music which was similar.
The Bluesmen were talented musicians, and they came up with sone great music and they forwarded the art greatly. You won’t find a bigger fan of their music than me. But… they were clearly influenced by the hill music of the Appalachian mountains which was what happened when African Amercan people and Irish people jammed together. This doesn’t make what they did any less special, nor them any less genuis. It just means that musicians get inspired by music, they copy it and they add their own ideas in.
And the hip/hop R&B Rap artists can do that too. And they do- you listen to modern Rap, you can hear influences from all over the place. The difference is that sampling involves taking a chunk of a song and using that directly in your song, and taking a chunk of a performance and using it in your song. The current view is that the person who made that chunk of the song deserves royalties, and the person who did that performance does too. Right now, that chunk length is 4 notes. I kind of feel that is too low, but the general idea is sound.
