Once again, corporate giants behaving like avaricious disgusting spoiled children.
This is ridiculously true. For a while in 2010/2011 I was working as a researcher doing copyright clearance for a museum - so you know attempting to pay actual money for licensing media if on a limited budget - and dealing with various corporate and public bodies trying to license stuff. Obscene amount of our budgets went to copyright clearance every time. The sheer greed (most especially amongst the music industry but also football, and frankly big publishing houses aren't far behind) was ridiculous and really depressing. Grown men having toddler style tantrams over the phone...
Made worse by the fact that if you actually got to speak to the actual creators themselves they were often lovely and would bend over backwards to help you out.
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This is ridiculously true. For a while in 2010/2011 I was working as a researcher doing copyright clearance for a museum - so you know attempting to pay actual money for licensing media if on a limited budget - and dealing with various corporate and public bodies trying to license stuff. Obscene amount of our budgets went to copyright clearance every time. The sheer greed (most especially amongst the music industry but also football, and frankly big publishing houses aren't far behind) was ridiculous and really depressing. Grown men having toddler style tantrams over the phone...
Made worse by the fact that if you actually got to speak to the actual creators themselves they were often lovely and would bend over backwards to help you out.