131. On originality and copyright awareness
In the current music industry, there is such a strange phenomenon: some new generation singers make their debut by adapting or covering other people's masterpieces, and even some are proud of plagiarism, complacent, red-faced, and without the slightest shame.
What's more, the dove occupies the magpie's nest, dominates the guests, despises those originals, devalues the originals as worthless, or makes a lot of nonsense, saying that they can only laugh at your songs, shamelessly taking the copyright fees that belong to others to themselves, absurdly collecting high performance fees for others that should not be taken, but there are few pure and pure original works from themselves, isn't this ridiculous?
Nowadays, in this thriving economic society and civilized country, there are still many people's copyright awareness, original consciousness and three-view attitude, which are faint or even missing, and even proclaim that "what copyright is not copyright, what is original is not original, what plagiarism is not plagiarism, what matters to me, the song is good; Besides, I haven't seen the original singer to defend my rights, you eat radishes and worry about it, what's your business..."
None of my business? Not. Carefully entangled, it is closely related to you, me and him, unless you don't go original. But is there anyone who can only borrow and imitate? Not really. In this world, everyone's thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, and even physique cannot be completely identical, so that everyone is a relatively completely unique member, so everyone will have a little bit of their own hard work after all, and this kind of thing, the meaning is heavier than Mount Tai.
Besides, are those original creators who refuse to defend their rights? Not. There are many reasons for this, but most of them are because they can't afford the cost of rights protection, or they don't have time to defend their rights, and finally let the plagiarists do whatever they want, and they openly converge on unclean interests. And this is the most tragic and helpless thing in the world for the diligent original.
In fact, this kind of bad situation is not only in the music industry, but also in the world of literature, programming, painting, sculpture, and other creative world circles, and even in elementary school workbooks, this absurd, ridiculous and shameful plagiarism abounds, and it happens repeatedly, which makes people grit their teeth and get angry.
But like Kong Yiji, who "steals not steals", many professional creators with crooked spirits beautify their plagiarism as "tribute, reference, reference, learning, imitation, and reference", etc., just like a wolf grandmother in human skin, pretending to be a grandmother who is really Little Red Riding Hood, in essence, there is no love that belongs to people, only greed. This kind of self-deception, or the attitude of the store to deceive customers, really makes the original creators sigh.
Why do I say so much, and at the same time feel so deeply, this is because I am also a creator who is not in the stream, and I am also afraid, afraid that one day my painstaking work will also be appropriated by others, and even put on a crown and wear it, and bear the name of others, I am really afraid.
Although I used to be young and ignorant, I used to copy other people's homework, and even recently, I peeked at the gun version of the hit movie and still used the free pirated Wi
dows system, and even some cracked versions of paid software, but I began to do what I could - open a video website membership that I can afford, buy genuine paid software that I can accept the price, and buy high-quality paid resources in the movie forum, and I am also trying my best to support and respect the original creator.
But when will this long-standing grotesque situation that originated in the entertainment industry and prevailed in other industries of society be put to rest (or change, such as daring to open up and reflect on one's own behavior, and at the same time assume one's own responsibility)? Waiting.