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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Again, you compare completely different things. Trust me, placing advertisings into one MP3, between lines and chapters in a book, into a highly artistic photo, whatever... is not going to raise the artistic value. It will destroy the product and any potential revenue from other products is still NOT an excuse for distributing it without authorization.
An artist, a writer or a photographer should be able to do whatever HE/SHE wants with his work and no one or nothing else should force him to do otherwise. THAT is freedom and if you do not understand that, then go back to school.
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I have argued this point with gideon ad nauseum and he won't listen. He believes that so long as he isn't hurting you from selling it, he can take it for free. Never mind that by taking it now he might be diluting a future market or maybe that you may only want a select number of copies out there, he feels that it you won't sell it to him he has the right to take it.
He feels a movie should be released in all mediums on the same day it is available in theaters. So he feels that when a movie opens in theaters on a Friday that it should also be available on DVD, pay per view, premium cable, basic cable and free TV on that day. If needed the movie appearing on basic cable and free TV can be edited. This way all customers could have the movie available to them in their desired format at the time of its release. If you then chose to release in theaters, DVD and pay per view, but not the others, the free TV and cable customers should then be allowed to download it since you didn't offer it in their desired format and if you chose to leave that money on the table then their taking it doesn't hurt the movie financially. Again, never mind that they might want to see how well the movie does at the box office before settling on a broadcast fee, give it to him now in the format he wants it he should be allowed to take it.