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Student musicians often cover professional music without paying royalties. I think there is a lot of "creativity" in trying to mimic other people's work even if
by nimblegorilla 13y ago
Student musicians often cover professional music without paying royalties. I think there is a lot of "creativity" in trying to mimic other people's work even if there is no profit motive.
- sp332 13y agoIf a student in an art museum copies one of the old masters (as happens every day), no money changes hands either. The problem is, for many of the game clones, there is a profit motive.
- watwut 13y agoOriginal Flappy Bird was removed from store and its creator never complained about clones. After all, flappy jam was organized to show support to him. So, in this aspect, he is more in the "old masters" then in the "lost profit" in that. The other things is that if it takes 3 days from start to finish, then it should not be patentable/copyrightable. It is too simple too little work to warrant years long monopoly. On the other hand, no one is going to clone Grand Theft Auto or Oblivion in three days. It is like demanding copyright on sunset picture. There are milions of sunset pictures, some free some paid and no one can claim monopoly over them. One of them is super successful once in a while, but that does not mean all subsequent artists should stop making them. Then again, some even accuse Flappy Bird of being clone. And then again, given some people standards, every single game can be accused of being clone of something.