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> i don't believe remixing is popular enough for that. I suspect it would be a lot more popular if people didn't risk getting dragged into a courtroom for doin

> i don't believe remixing is popular enough for that. I suspect it would be a lot more popular if people didn't risk getting dragged into a courtroom for doing it. > freely allowing remixing will only increase the ratio of junk vs good art. Remixing has the ability to take bad art and make it better. Most of everything is garbage, but fortunately nobody is forced to be exposed to it all either. People who don't want to spend their time looking outside of narrowly curated selections of available content or what's already gained popularity never have to. All art is built off of previous works, and even if someone creates a work that you hate, someone else may by inspired by that work to make something you love. It doesn't make sense to want to prevent the creation of new creative works out of fear that they might not be "good" in your opinion. Even if, somehow, it did make sense to hinder the creation of new creative works copyright would not be the tool for the job. Copyright already has a job. Copyright is supposed to encourage the creation of new creative works. Sadly it is currently being used to suppress art and artists, which is why it is broken and needs to be reformed. There are some people who want copyright to be as restrictive as possible. Very wealthy and powerful industries for example. They've spent a lot of time and money to try to convince us that copyright should be as restrictive and long lasting as possible, but that's entirely for their benefit and not ours. It's bad for art, it's bad for artists, and it's bad for the public as a whole. They've convinced us to muzzle each other and lock up our own culture so they can increase their profits. The longer it takes us to fix that, the more great art we lose.

sbcdz 4y ago
>I suspect it would be a lot more popular if people didn't risk getting dragged into a courtroom for doing it. Well, talking about the popularity of doing remixes.. A game developer and artist in japan allowed a free-for-all on his IPs, basically people can do whatever they want to do whether it's remix his games soundtracks, make games inspired by his or write stories about his games and the amount of content generated is just staggering. Over 100 000 songs have been released in physical CD format in official Japanese conventions, and many more not counted in other countries or in digital-only forms. In the case of music, there's covers/remixes/more creative interpretations done in pretty much any genre imaginable. Here's some I've enjoyed: https://open.spotify.com/track/7v25NVhjRtabtyZd1VOgKF?si=3f37c1eb481041e8 https://open.spotify.com/track/7v25NVhjRtabtyZd1VOgKF?si=3f3... https://open.spotify.com/track/06MpdON26igXU9RypVjVda?si=e7a18c50cdc747c8 https://open.spotify.com/track/06MpdON26igXU9RypVjVda?si=e7a... https://open.spotify.com/track/6p3kue2ZdtVBH5QAFEOmaC?si=3d8e4bea7f754dc7 https://open.spotify.com/track/6p3kue2ZdtVBH5QAFEOmaC?si=3d8... https://open.spotify.com/track/2WLFemt8pvSfekUBC5duXy?si=c97157652ed74e9f https://open.spotify.com/track/2WLFemt8pvSfekUBC5duXy?si=c97... https://open.spotify.com/track/38uLH7V5AVzHvZ0uc07ZtR?si=c4051390a550427c https://open.spotify.com/track/38uLH7V5AVzHvZ0uc07ZtR?si=c40... https://open.spotify.com/track/73MhkPNN5Txn5oELXa4G6A?si=3b7158e0ffec475a https://open.spotify.com/track/73MhkPNN5Txn5oELXa4G6A?si=3b7... Which by the way also follows your point : >Remixing has the ability to take bad art and make it better Although I wouldn't call the original touhou soundtracks 'bad art', they are flawed creations: Zun is good at creating catchy melodies and overall composition, but the quality of the instrumentation is poor (mostly Roland SC-88 and Edirol SD90 presets, not the most musical of sample based synthesizers IMHO. Of the early sample technology, the mt-32 and D50 are more interesting than the sound canvas series) and the fans have taken something that had potential and turned it into things that are worth listening to standalone.

sbcdz 4y ago

>I suspect it would be a lot more popular if people didn't risk getting dragged into a courtroom for doing it. Well, talking about the popularity of doing remixes.. A game developer and artist in japan allowed a free-for-all on his IPs, basically people can do whatever they want to do whether it's remix his games soundtracks, make games inspired by his or write stories about his games and the amount of content generated is just staggering. Over 100 000 songs have been released in physical CD format in official Japanese conventions, and many more not counted in other countries or in digital-only forms. In the case of music, there's covers/remixes/more creative interpretations done in pretty much any genre imaginable. Here's some I've enjoyed: https://open.spotify.com/track/7v25NVhjRtabtyZd1VOgKF?si=3f37c1eb481041e8 https://open.spotify.com/track/7v25NVhjRtabtyZd1VOgKF?si=3f3... https://open.spotify.com/track/06MpdON26igXU9RypVjVda?si=e7a18c50cdc747c8 https://open.spotify.com/track/06MpdON26igXU9RypVjVda?si=e7a... https://open.spotify.com/track/6p3kue2ZdtVBH5QAFEOmaC?si=3d8e4bea7f754dc7 https://open.spotify.com/track/6p3kue2ZdtVBH5QAFEOmaC?si=3d8... https://open.spotify.com/track/2WLFemt8pvSfekUBC5duXy?si=c97157652ed74e9f https://open.spotify.com/track/2WLFemt8pvSfekUBC5duXy?si=c97... https://open.spotify.com/track/38uLH7V5AVzHvZ0uc07ZtR?si=c4051390a550427c https://open.spotify.com/track/38uLH7V5AVzHvZ0uc07ZtR?si=c40... https://open.spotify.com/track/73MhkPNN5Txn5oELXa4G6A?si=3b7158e0ffec475a https://open.spotify.com/track/73MhkPNN5Txn5oELXa4G6A?si=3b7... Which by the way also follows your point : >Remixing has the ability to take bad art and make it better Although I wouldn't call the original touhou soundtracks 'bad art', they are flawed creations: Zun is good at creating catchy melodies and overall composition, but the quality of the instrumentation is poor (mostly Roland SC-88 and Edirol SD90 presets, not the most musical of sample based synthesizers IMHO. Of the early sample technology, the mt-32 and D50 are more interesting than the sound canvas series) and the fans have taken something that had potential and turned it into things that are worth listening to standalone.