Comments on: Innovation is difficult http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:25:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Eugenia http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-340 Eugenia Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:41:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-340 Blag, I agree. There was a time that innovating was easier, simply because fewer people were creating things. Now, in the world of 6 billion people, creating something new is getting more and more difficult and so copyright laws must be relaxed. Here is <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/apples-little-problem-with-ripping-off-artists/" rel="nofollow">another example</a> of that. Blag, I agree. There was a time that innovating was easier, simply because fewer people were creating things. Now, in the world of 6 billion people, creating something new is getting more and more difficult and so copyright laws must be relaxed. Here is another example of that.

]]> By: mikesum32 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-337 mikesum32 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:42:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-337 It’s possible that the filmmaker read the story or saw the episode and promptly forgot about it, only to have the idea surface later. I know I’ve read a lot of stories and can’t remember them all. I’ve forgotten songs, but once I hear them on the radio the memories come back. I heard “Church - Under the Milky Way” on the radio and had to look it up on youtube. Then I was watching Donnie Darko again and it came on. It blew my mind because I realized I had heard it in the movie first. It’s possible that the filmmaker read the story or saw the episode and promptly forgot about it, only to have the idea surface later.

I know I’ve read a lot of stories and can’t remember them all. I’ve forgotten songs, but once I hear them on the radio the memories come back. I heard “Church - Under the Milky Way” on the radio and had to look it up on youtube. Then I was watching Donnie Darko again and it came on. It blew my mind because I realized I had heard it in the movie first.

]]> By: mikesum32 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-339 mikesum32 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:36:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-339 But what my great-great-grandchildren do for money ? But what my great-great-grandchildren do for money ?

]]> By: blag http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-338 blag Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:41:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/06/29/innovation-is-difficult/#comment-338 Copyright terms shouldn’t be so long or this is the kind of thing that happens. People can’t “remix” and society suffers. Copyright terms shouldn’t be so long or this is the kind of thing that happens. People can’t “remix” and society suffers.

]]>