Charles Wood

Worthing, Uk

Video director

I agree with this analysts view but people should think hard about the implications of it: for it will mean that these large corporates will attempt to dominate our culture for the forseeable future. They will always have the finances to be one step ahead of popular culture and will kill it's development...DEAD! For artists and and naive inocent bystanders this will damage a lot of inovation.

The "happy Birthday" nasty song is a great example, for heavens sake why should anyone have to get permission for this stupid song that has effectively been in the public domain for years? Well the obvious answer to everyone but the copyright owner is no one!

In my view the simplest way to end all this would be for a new copyright treaty to be agreed worldwide which would set an uppper limit to earnings at a "reasonable" level for any such material...and it should be set quite small, so that corporates get out of this market, while the real artists get a good renumeration. I would suggest 10 years of the average persons income in society as a whole as the practical limit. This would be a lot for an artist, and too little for the Disneys of this world.

If this does not happen then all human innovation on the net will become stifled and damaged, to the detriment of all of us.

This really needs addressing at a political level or moving image and sound development on the web will always be subject to some idiot claiming they invented it. This might be ok for litagist Americans but for most of us it is a silly way of rewarding innovation.

Please everyone, do not let every aspect of our lives become dominated by one cultures viewpoint..capitalism at its very worst!