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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Maybe they're just "sampling" the songs in their commercials like rap groups have legally gotten away with. What's the essential difference if they just use a portion of a song (usually covered...) and it becomes part of another creative production. Similarly, montages in the visual arts field... I think that a lot of copyright laws are just arbitary products of shysterism... |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| But do people downloading movies/music make any money out of it? |
Would you mind posting a list of nice things you own and your address? I wouldn't mind having a new TV and if yours is nice enough, I'd like to steal it. It's just for my own use--I promise I won't sell it.
(The government is a little more active in defending intellectual property rights nowadays, since Koreans are starting to produce things foreigners--like the Chinese--want to steal.) |
Calm down mate!!
I agree with you! That's what 'True' means. I merely pointed out that people stealing music and movies aren't making money off someone else's work. (Except the dodgy guys who sell bootleg DVDs). Not only are these people that copy music and pass it off as their own stealing they are making money off of someone else's work. Get it? |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
| Maybe they're just "sampling" the songs in their commercials like rap groups have legally gotten away with. What's the essential difference if they just use a portion of a song (usually covered...) and it becomes part of another creative production. Similarly, montages in the visual arts field... I think that a lot of copyright laws are just arbitary products of shysterism... |
Rap groups that sample songs have to get permission or risk being sued. |
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Tobacco Dreams
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: The Eagles Sue a Korean Insurance Company |
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| If one has the knowhow, one could probably make a business alerting foreign companies of copyright infringement in Korea and do quite well...although I doubt foreign companies would ever win a battle in Korean courts (i.e. Starbucks). |
You might be surprised!
Between teaching gigs, I spent a year working for a Seoul law firm which specialized in precisely that: representing foreign firms which were getting screwed out of their IP (intellectual property) rights here in Korea.
Case in point: When Vans got wind of knock-off sneakers being sold here, we were right on top of it. The offending shoes were seized, at our direction, by Incheon customs, and promptly burnt. The Korean firms which had ordered them were visited by the police and told to knock it off.
In many cases (such as this one), the actual counterfeiting was being done in China. In other cases, though, it was factories right here in Korea which we had raided.
Bottom line: lawyers, in any country, are lawyers. They live to make money. Korean lawyers will HAPPILY screw their fellow Koreans--if the pay is right. |
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