Week 6 Copyright and Creative Commons,

Actually as much as I hate this Copyright and Creative Commons thingy since my days in production. I also embrace it as it serve to protect the IP rights of the creator and developers.

Just sharing some experience from my producer days. I have to get 101 permits at certain locations and get my talents to sign release rights to avoid risk of being sued for rights or more money to be paid. Of course we try to negotiate our ways through 101 ways as well, but teh paperwork etc.

There are also time like highlighted in the comic, I have to replace a music of a promo or spot due to licencing. It may be license at one place but not the other (Different in countries). There are also bodies protecting these rights. Voices and scenes as well. while its a pain for us users, I can understand how much time say a composer spend to compose the music and yet not get paid for till someone uses their pieces. Sometimes, the piece is never used for ages, times are hard for people like them. These days,materials are being used on different platforms, thus different rates. organisations are formed just to help protect them. So as understandingas I can be, I am just concern sometimes the out of teh world prices and how it goes down the line.

Still, I do agree to such protection. Anyway, such protection and time bound before it becomes public, that's why at some point we have such "free" access to certain materials. I think it also boils down to ethics, making sure either we reference and credit the people's work we used, if not, make the necessary renumerations. Haveing come from the creative industry, this is something we hate but yet embrace as one day, I may create my own work...now who is there to protect it.....food for thought.