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Are you saying that songwriters deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what the lyrics of a song are? That doesn't make any sense to me.
by benched 13y ago
Are you saying that songwriters deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what the lyrics of a song are? That doesn't make any sense to me.
- thatthatis 13y agoAre you saying writers of books deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what their book says?
- rplnt 13y agoCould you provide an example that is even more unrelated? This one is still about writing... (Seriously though, this is something absolutely different)
- frankdenbow 13y agoIts exactly the same, just a matter of length of the content.
- thatthatis 13y agoAre you saying writers of poetry deserve to be paid whenever I simply want to know what their poem says? Is that close enough for you to see the similarity, or do I need to explain how songs and poems are functionally indistinguishable and further how poetry and prose is functionally indistinguishable; and therefore how written works are functionally indistinguishable and if you support copyright in one but not the other your perspective is logically untenable? Or perhaps you'd like to explain to me why a poem should lose its written copyright rights when someone sings it.
- rplnt 13y agoSongs are (in general) not "musicized" poetry. It's closer to a movie. People work on it and it sells as a whole. Lyrics + music + singing or screenplay + scene + acting (simplified). I don't see why I should pay anyone for quoting a movie. Nor I don't thing lyrics of a song are worth anything as standalone. Those who wrote the screenplay/lyrics have deal with owner of the final product and are paid from that (or were paid once and that is one extra reason to not pay them over and over).