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I hate to admit this, but this is the most human he's been in...well, I won't speculate. So human that I'm not terribly bothered by the lese majeste here:
You just don’t do what they did — without getting permission, at least. And I know that young people don’t understand that, because they grew up in the Internet era where everything is interactive and you can tamper with anything, change anything. They grew up in the age of sampling where you think you can just take a piece of something else. I didn’t grow up in that era. I grew up in the era where people’s work belonged to them. And you simply don’t tamper with it. And again, I could cite you chapter and verse of copyright law, but that’s boring stuff.
But Frank Ocean’s lawyers tried to explain it to him, because they knew he was gonna get sued. They knew what he had done wasn’t right. And he was just young and arrogant and he couldn’t understand why we were not happy — that he took the track to Hotel California and wrote his own song over it. (Laughs)
But at the same time, I think the idea of homage and the idea of doing something in a certain style is fine. But you can’t take the work itself that you’re paying homage to and layer your own stuff on top of it. You have to start from scratch. I think the legal decision in the (Blurred Lines) Marvin Gaye / Pharrell Williams case, I think that was a really bad decision. I don’t think that was plagiarism. I think that was simply influence. So there’s a fine line. It’s a very grey area of law and of ethics.
I did like this:
You just don’t do what they did — without getting permission, at least. And I know that young people don’t understand that, because they grew up in the Internet era where everything is interactive and you can tamper with anything, change anything. They grew up in the age of sampling where you think you can just take a piece of something else. I didn’t grow up in that era. I grew up in the era where people’s work belonged to them. And you simply don’t tamper with it. And again, I could cite you chapter and verse of copyright law, but that’s boring stuff.
But Frank Ocean’s lawyers tried to explain it to him, because they knew he was gonna get sued. They knew what he had done wasn’t right. And he was just young and arrogant and he couldn’t understand why we were not happy — that he took the track to Hotel California and wrote his own song over it. (Laughs)
But at the same time, I think the idea of homage and the idea of doing something in a certain style is fine. But you can’t take the work itself that you’re paying homage to and layer your own stuff on top of it. You have to start from scratch. I think the legal decision in the (Blurred Lines) Marvin Gaye / Pharrell Williams case, I think that was a really bad decision. I don’t think that was plagiarism. I think that was simply influence. So there’s a fine line. It’s a very grey area of law and of ethics.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
lol oops:
I mean, they wrote some songs, very poorly — they were not very good songwriters — and they put out an album, and the only song that people would want to hear when they did a concert was Boys of Summer. And the lead singer apparently got so angry about it that he had a T-shirt made that said “Who the f— is Don Henley?”, or “Who the hell is Don Henley?” or something like that. And he would apparently wear that on stage (laughs) … and I thought that was really childish. But it was funny at the same time, because it was a clear message to them that they needed to work on their craftsmanship.
about the Ataris.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
DON:I still work out like a fiend. Just before I picked up the phone with you, I worked out with a trainer for an hour and a half, and I’m sitting here soaking wet.
GLENN: I tell ya, it's a long way from when our workout lasted that long, and our partners where still soaking wet!
DON: Well, yeah.