Originally posted by Gytheran@Jan 9 2006, 09:43 PM
.... They are original, physical creations ....
.... ALL replica props are "plagierized" from someone or another. The act of recasting is NOT the act of creating derivative works from someone's intellectual property, but to take somoene else's physical labor, steal it and sell it as their own....
....It is an accepted practice to copy screen-used items which have been lawfully purchased and in a private collector's hands. Generally, these items are purchased with great amounts of capital($35k for a TK helmet anyone?), which its new owner can do with as he/she pleases....
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I guess I never really understood the lack of absolutes, the relative application of one's definitions to ones subjective view, and bemoaning of hypocripsy while being stridently hypocritical.
It appears that recasting is OK if it's recasting a product of a corporation or a "non-member." I don't understand how intellectual property is not the foundation of argument, but again it's property, damn the intellectual.
The logical extreme is it's OK to rip off licensees (despite the fact that it represents investment, and ultimately individuals) because it's like some Propin Hood, steal from the corp to give (actually to sell) to the little guy. An interesting bizzaro socialist paradise, I guess.
The argument goes if a recognized indivduals labor is used, despite that individual have "reused" copyrighted, trademarked, or licensed material, it only the person who does this physical "casting" that can be wronged. Somehow the logical extension of the argument does not hold up - derivitative work, regarless of changes, is a "recast"
OR is it recasting is only applied to casts which appropriate some intellectual property without compensation, but all else is recasts, ie you can only be recasted if you casted without permission to begin with ????
Swiss cheese has less holes than this logic. I guess there are good desparadoes, likje some noble clique, but the bad guys either wear white hats or do derivative work. Only true "creators" who's work by definition is not original because it is a REPLICA.
Then the icing is the fall on my a$$ laughing argument that if you pay a lot for something, then the Propin Hood rule goes into effect: "first generation" cast away.
I don't like anyone stealing anyone's work without compensation, but the hypocripsy of some appropriators are good because they have physical sweat on there brow or they are otherwise held in higher regard than other brigands is what bothers me. The hypocrpsy is palatable, then the same people turn around and denegrate fan made props because their relative compass shifts to promote certain special companies.
Moral equivocation at it's best. And I'm sure the wonderkids of Goebbel's like propaganda will twist this post out of recognizable context, just like the guy who throws the baby ruth in the pool then says, "well now I'm done with swimming, I'm done with this." No wonder we are witnessing the Decline of the West.
