Techdirt über Gangnam Style und die Entscheidung der Macher, Mashups, Parodien und offensichtliche Copyrightverletzungen nicht zu verfolgen:
A couple of months back, Mike wrote about how Psy’s relaxed attitude to people infringing on his copyright helped turn Gangnam Style into one of the most successful cultural phenomena in recent years, and that includes becoming the most-viewed video on YouTube ever.
Ah yes, the maximalists will retort, this free-and-easy, laid-back approach is all very nice, but it doesn’t put food on his table, does it? If you want to make a living from this stuff, you’ve got to enforce copyright to stop all those freeloaders ruining your business.
AP über die wirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen dieses Ansatzes:
… WeiterlesenWith one song, 34-year-old Park Jae-sang — better known as PSY — is set to become a millionaire from YouTube ads and iTunes downloads, underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business.