3 ms·
Are 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
by thatthatis 13y ago
Are 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).