10 Oct
2005
10 Oct
'05
6:25 a.m.
Franz Stadler wrote:
Copyright: In times of cheap, easy and high quality
copy mechanisms
open to most people, Copyright is more important than ever. No question.
The original question was on sample exchange or trading.
The idea to disallow me to (re)sell the assets I bought is questionable.
This idea certainly comes from the fear, the seller probably still owns
copies of the media he sold.
I do not have insight in these industries, how much it costs to produce
a sample cd, but I know that the costs of a single copy are very low,
the list prices are pretty high, the street prices (e.g. on ebay) are
in between.
I don't have a clear understanding on these topics, so some sort of
discussion would be fine, but probably doesn't fit into emails.
(Some discussions can already be found in the archives, I think)
You can just about disregard the costs related to physically
reproducing the actual CD. The real cost is in producing the content,
ie the samples, which constitute the major time, effort and expense.
There is also more work involved configuring the samples for a
platform or sampler.
For example, look at www.ilio.com and you'll see that a few of the
sets they sell cost $99 for Audio only versions, but the cost is $199
for a CD-ROM version for a sampler format. As these are both products
which have a limited market (musicians/studios/etc), they both cost
much more than an audio CD from Amazon.com ($10-$20) which can find a
buyer from a huge market.
I look at this whole issue like this: If we as buyers don't pay for
original copies, but copy and re-sell sample discs and software, then
the developers won't cover their costs and they won't create more
products. In this way, we collectively shoot ourselves in the foot.
From another angle: I create music and I rely on royalties for a
large portion of my income. If users pirate my music, or don't log it
properly, I don't get any money. I don't want my creative products to
be abused - so I will certainly not do the same to other people.
Just my 5c worth.....
Regards - Colin