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If I ask a painter to paint a picture, and I tell them what I want on the painting down to the finest level, did I paint the picture?

• hammyhavoc 3y ago
  No. If you write a script and someone makes a movie out of it, did you make the movie? No. You were the scriptwriter. If a client gives you a brief to develop x piece of software, did they develop it? No. They were in all probability, the pot of money or manager, and someone else at their company came up with the concept, or they acquired/licensed a patent and want to integrate that functionality into their existing product. If you write a piece of music and someone else performs it, are you the artist? No, you were the composer or songwriter. If you conduct an orchestra, are you the composer and instrumentalists? No. You were the conductor. If you sample someone's record within your hip-hop beat, did you create the original record you sampled from? No. And as such, the original's creator(s) should be compensated, and they generally are, either out of decency or through the courts. People need to know what it is they're actually doing. It's like people who conflate mixing with mastering, yet if you put their solely mixed music on vinyl, the needle will jump out of the groove due to too much bass, and suddenly it becomes clear why there are mastering engineers who specialize in vinyl.