• rglullis@communick.news
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    11 months ago

    people should profit from redistribution of public domain works

    You are making my argument for me. Who is distributing in this case? I’d say that it is Spotify.

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      11 months ago

      then they should create their own competing distribution. They aren’t actually making any ambient soundscapes. not even white noise, let alone rain, wind, birds, crickets, etc. And what about all those copies of “which side are you one boy” and it’s many covers. you could make the same argument for any traditional music, but you’re not. You only care about “white noise” because you consider it to be low effort. Low effort is not no effort, and the people that put in the effort to create those files should be paid.

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        11 months ago

        Are you confusing me with someone else on the thread? My argument was solely on the fact that white noise can not be copyrighted, nothing related to “effort”.