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Nov. 7th, 2007 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearI'm posting this picture simply to piss off Prince's 98 pound ass.
I'm sorry, but any respect I had for this little twerp has gone out the window. It's one thing to want to have control of one's copyrighted images and silly symbols. After all, no one wants to see unauthorized posters and swag for sale, etc. That's the letter of copyright law. It is, however, something completely filled with asshattery to demand that fan sites, personal webpages and the like be scrubbed of all such imagery, including personal photos and other user-generated content that give passing resemblance. To do as such is essentially waging war with your own rabid fan base.
What's that old saying about biting the hand that feeds you? Go on ahead, Mr. Nelson. Send out the legal hounds to purge the internet of every single instance of 'your property' being used by fans in noncommercial, fair-use situations. You will soon be ridiculed and relegated to the cutout bin of relevance. After all, I'm sure that the YouTube clip of the dancing baby with "Lets Go Crazy" barely audible in the background has caused a marked decrease in CD sales and eroded control of your work.
And to think I used to enjoy music.
I'm sorry, but any respect I had for this little twerp has gone out the window. It's one thing to want to have control of one's copyrighted images and silly symbols. After all, no one wants to see unauthorized posters and swag for sale, etc. That's the letter of copyright law. It is, however, something completely filled with asshattery to demand that fan sites, personal webpages and the like be scrubbed of all such imagery, including personal photos and other user-generated content that give passing resemblance. To do as such is essentially waging war with your own rabid fan base.
What's that old saying about biting the hand that feeds you? Go on ahead, Mr. Nelson. Send out the legal hounds to purge the internet of every single instance of 'your property' being used by fans in noncommercial, fair-use situations. You will soon be ridiculed and relegated to the cutout bin of relevance. After all, I'm sure that the YouTube clip of the dancing baby with "Lets Go Crazy" barely audible in the background has caused a marked decrease in CD sales and eroded control of your work.
And to think I used to enjoy music.
