Comments on: The New York Public Library is DRMing Public Domain Works http://obviousdiversion.com/technology/the-new-york-public-library-is-drming-public-domain-works/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:51:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anonymous http://obviousdiversion.com/technology/the-new-york-public-library-is-drming-public-domain-works/#comment-1415 Anonymous Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:37:30 +0000 http://obviousdiversion.com/?p=410#comment-1415 Just don't mess with my audio. I will hurt you. Just don’t mess with my audio. I will hurt you.

]]> By: Christian http://obviousdiversion.com/technology/the-new-york-public-library-is-drming-public-domain-works/#comment-1412 Christian Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:28:43 +0000 http://obviousdiversion.com/?p=410#comment-1412 Chuck, You've missed it. They are DRMing pure text. Not just audio. Pure electronic text of public domain works, not a performance of that text. Chuck,

You’ve missed it. They are DRMing pure text. Not just audio. Pure electronic text of public domain works, not a performance of that text.

]]> By: Chuck http://obviousdiversion.com/technology/the-new-york-public-library-is-drming-public-domain-works/#comment-1411 Chuck Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:25:33 +0000 http://obviousdiversion.com/?p=410#comment-1411 Understand your point. My reaction is that while the source works are indeed Public Domain, the Artists' performances are not. That is to say, you could have Joe the librarian read the performance into a wav file, and that's fine. But as a voice artist and producer, you damn well better believe what I do is copyrighted and not "free". That's what I think the conflict is... I am not going to do a great read of Chaucer and not get compensated, much like you wouldn't create something artistic and not get compensated (unless there is a prior agreement of course). Okay, back to searching for triplet porn. I'll cross-post this at 5a Understand your point. My reaction is that while the source works are indeed Public Domain, the Artists’ performances are not.
That is to say, you could have Joe the librarian read the performance into a wav file, and that’s fine.
But as a voice artist and producer, you damn well better believe what I do is copyrighted and not “free”. That’s what I think the conflict is… I am not going to do a great read of Chaucer and not get compensated, much like you wouldn’t create something artistic and not get compensated (unless there is a prior agreement of course).
Okay, back to searching for triplet porn.
I’ll cross-post this at 5a

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