A good example being the way that Nintendo exploits the language of DCMA to circumvent the fair-use doctrine for game critics and let's play videos. (This generally results in those critics and derivative artists losing their paycheque to Nintendo for that work.)
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Right, I'm saying that Twitch is a half-assed way to do that which has had ripple effects
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Without getting into the weeds, most published musicians sign up with an agency that collects royalties on their behalf, and when you cover a song as part of a commercial performance/release you just pay the agency a fixed percentage of your profits
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No such mechanical licensing system was created for video game content before streaming got off the ground What we have instead is an ad hoc system enforced by different publishers for their own work, via commercial partnership with the hosting site
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my half-informed take on copyright is that the history of the phrase "mechanical license" reveals that copyright policy generally should be approached from an anti-metaphysical, anti-theoretical perspective
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by which i mean, "mechanical license" originally referred to a license to play music on /player pianos/, as differentiated from buying sheet music where before, musicians and composers might make money strictly on selling their sheet music with player pianos they wanted a cut
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History of cover bands is very local.. Irish show bands touring dance halls, or Australia where it wz 2expensive to bring a tour.
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