home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.music
- Path: sparky!uunet!netnews!bia-sjm-mac.jhuapl.edu!user
- From: (SJ Messing)
- Subject: Re: Casey Kasem wrote and boy is he pissed...
- Message-ID: <C1FCo8.GLx@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.music
- Sender: usenet@netnews.jhuapl.edu
- Organization: APL
- References: <1993Jan19.033912.26449@icmv> <1993Jan22.235017.22363@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:26:32 GMT
- Lines: 42
-
- In article <1993Jan22.235017.22363@Princeton.EDU>,
- ramirez.Princeton.EDU!penrose (Christopher Penrose) wrote:
-
- > Copyright is an anachronism. Originality, among social beings, is always
- > shared. If you disagree with this sentiment, produce an example of isolated
- > originality.
-
- These comments (and the rest of Christopher's posting) provide an example
- of the most ludicrous pseudo-intellectual claptrap I have read in a long
- while.
- His argument in essence is that every creative effort is predicated on a
- series of
- earlier efforts which are appropriated. Thus, for example, U2 needed to
- rely on
- (or appropriate) pre-existing creative products such as the English
- language,
- instrumentation, harmony, song structure (these are Christoper╒s examples).
-
- The creator, in his view, has simply provided an ╥endpoint╙ in the flow of
- history.
-
- The problem is, that no one else wrote Achtung Baby -- only U2 did. Many
- folks
- have a working knowledge of the English language, harmony, instrumentation,
-
- song structure, etc. but they didn╒t write The Joshua Tree, or whatever
- U2╒s
- previous album was called.
-
- Christopher╒s argument calls to mind a vision of some guy sitting back in
- his
- recliner saying ╥I cudda done that!╙. I know it sounds awful elitist and
- it╒s probably
- not PC, but some people just have more creative talent than others! U2 was
- able to
- synthesize an amazing variety of musical, social, historical, lyrical,
- political, etc.
- influences into their music and they deserve the right as artists and
- creators to
- say - this is ours!
-
- SJMessing
-