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Originally Posted by MSUeddie
What an asinine argument. So as a painter of very famous painting, which i dont want to sell posters of, any boob can take a picture, recreate my painting and sell thousands of posters of my paintings without my permission and without paying me?
Copyright law has plenty of warts, but you present a claim nowhere near a disputed area
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Uhm, but you DO want to sell your painting. You HAVE sold your painting in the past. In fact, you sold tickets for people to view your painting, you sold low quality versions of your painting, and then ten years later, sold higher quality versions of your painting. Now, ten more years later, you're considering selling even HIGHER quality versions of your painting. However, in the time that you're taking to decide if you want to do that, someone has made a very high quality version available. There are many people that have gone to see your exhibit, as well as purchased multiple copies of your painting. Should you decide to sell it in a higher-quality format in the future, they will buy that as well. However, in the meantime, someone has made a higher-quality version available, and until such a time as you decide to make your own official higher-quality version available, why should they not be able to appreciate your work in the higher-quality version that someone else has made available?
And don't present the argument that people are taking money away from you, because I already stated that true pirates, the ones that take IP and then re-sell it, should have legal actions brought against them. I have absolutely no problem with that, and will be first in line to turn them in. Those people are the scum of the earth; however, those people are not the people that are downloading things. The people that are downloading things are filesharers, and MANY of them are doing so because the media industry is artificially limiting how they can, and arguably SHOULD be able to be using the media that they have fairly paid for (or would like to pay for, but can't because the media industry doesn't even have a comparable product available to purchase).