Should ideas be ownable, and is copyright law working?
Axis: strong ownership protects creators ... ideas build on each other; ownership should be limited
John
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-02-21 | new | John jokes that Mickey Mouse is single-handedly responsible for the death of reasonable American copyright law. | People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes 00:01:24 |
| 2010-06-07 | refine | John: YouTube should pay Viacom the real ad value of its content, and Viacom should pay Coulton by the same standard unless piracy means stealing from someone with a lawyer. | Viacom PWNED on Piracy 00:02:56 |
| 2010-06-11 | restate | John: what Viacom did to him and hundreds of others is exactly what it is suing YouTube for purportedly doing to Viacom. | Mmmm....PARTS 00:00:00 |
| 2011-11-22 | refine | John says copyright works when people negotiate what's fair, but fair use is ill-defined and chilling, current law favours those who can pay, and the bills before Congress would widen that gap. | Old Man Narrates Young Girl 00:02:42 |
| 2012-02-14 | restate | John says he is not a fan of illegal disruptions of content delivery: stealing is old and nothing revolutionary or cool. | Things I Can Do 00:02:26 |
| 2013-01-29 | tension | John agrees with Hank's video that current copyright law is crazy but insists people and ideas need some copyright protection, as against a CBS taking their videos. | Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters 00:00:00 |
| 2013-01-29 | refine | John: we need better copyright law; meanwhile be fair to each other, welcome fan works, accept that money changes things, police ourselves, and never let copyright make us afraid to create. | Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters 00:02:48 |
| 2013-12-03 | refine | John: the brothers won't trademark 'Don't Forget to Be Awesome', because trademarks can't be enforced selectively and owning it would claim something that belongs to Nerdfighteria. | Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks 00:02:11 |
Hank
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-02-23 | new | Hank doesn't feel bad downloading books whose authors, like Dumas, aren't trying to make a living, and asks what buyers of a book pay for. | Brotherhood 2.0: February 22nd: Where Do Books Go? 00:02:56 |
| 2007-08-14 | new | Hank says comedy should be free: a possible borrowing of his jokes is an ego boost, not a wrong. | August 13: The Fair!!!! 00:02:57 |
| 2007-08-31 | new | Hank finds it very sad that choreographed dances are copyrighted, and puts the brothers' happy dances under a Creative Commons license. | August 31: Copyright and Airports 00:01:43 |
| 2010-06-05 | refine | Hank: YouTube should pay Viacom some reparations for views of Viacom-owned content, but Viacom's suit is hypocritical and really about resisting change. | YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained 00:00:00 |
| 2010-06-09 | restate | Hank: Viacom's monetizing of videos it doesn't own on Spike.com is illegal and should stop for all copyrighted videos there. | Should We Sue Viacom? 00:01:56 |
| 2011-11-18 | refine | Hank says he loves and needs copyright law but it needs to be better: fair use is fuzzy, and Congress should not regulate the internet through anti-piracy bills. | Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ 00:00:53 |
| 2012-01-20 | refine | Hank argues SOPA protects corporations and old media business models rather than people or creators, and that an infinite internet can't be regulated like a normal street. | Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans 00:01:07 |
| 2013-01-11 | refine | Hank separates a sense of ownership (DFTBA) from owning, criticises Disney's push to extend copyright, welcomes the internet making copyright enforcement obsolete though corporations deciding is worrisome, and says free ideas are better for society. | On the Ownership of Ideas 00:01:36 |