DROID, there is a difference between commenting on a video someone puts up and taking said video and using it in your own work. CoolDrMoney here wants to basically use a song in one of his animations and claim it to be "commentary". That is ludicrous. It is completely irrelevant that some people make video commentaries on other videos... this is absolutely not the same thing. He's just trying to circumvent the rules in order to basically use a copyrighted song in his animation.
The toothbrush thing is absolutely relevant. The toothbrush is MY property, I can do whatever I want with it. I can let my family use it, I can let you use it. It is mine to decide what I will do with it. I bought it, it belongs to me. My intellectual property has the same rights applied to it, I can let you use it if I choose, I can let my neighbor use it if I choose, I can let everybody use it freely if I apply the proper licensing to it. The song in question is copyrighted in such a way that you need permission to use it, whether it be given or paid for. How do people not understand such a simple concept?
Just because it's easier to steal and transfer does not mean it's okay to do so. The ease of use(or abuse) has nothing to do with it.
DroidTronProductions
See the difference between that toothbrush and content online is that toothbrush is in your house bathroom for YOU ONLY (For most families anyway...). And that content online you put up for the public to view and that includes criticize. Commentary on games and videos have been going on for years. As long as we give credit and or don't claim the footage as our own, I honestly fail to see why that gives someone the rights to sue or strike that person. It's just commentary or a better example might be parody or a remix of a video. A copyright claim twords things like that just looks like to me, anyways, a poor sport who can't handle a little criticism. I honestly wouldn't care if someone remixed or spoofed one of my videos. But what does that matter? That's just what I think. Let's face it: there's no real justice to these arguments.
All I can say is....
In the world, there's good sports and there's wimps.
CoolDrMoney
It's not even really about that. I'm sure that Winger themselves would be fine letting me use their music but it doesn't matter. An out of touch, mass corperation owns the rights and would rather put restrictive boundaries on artists than take a chance of losing lose a cent of profit.
If the kinds of copyright laws that are in action today existed when Duchamp was an artist, there would be no "modern" art.