Do your own research. I am not going to waste my time trying to educate someone who believes that radio play constitutes illegal use of copyrighted material and who doesn’t understand the fundamental differences between radio stations and YouTube with regard to the issue - especially if that person (claims to have)…

You clearly do not understand how licensing works with regard to radio play.

The point doesn’t require your ‘agreement’ in order for it to be true; someone being a major-label artist doesn’t make a copyright infringement not a copyright infringement. No copyright holder should be required or expected to “adapt” to their copyright being violated - regardless of how much money they have. Whether…

When someone else is profiting from the illegal use of your copyrighted material, the “advertising” isn’t “free”.

“no one in their right mind is going to watch my video as a replacement for the real Uptown Funk.”

“How does a teen making a slideshow of their besties to a radio hit damage anyone’s intellectual property? / If you bought the album, why can’t you make the video?”

There’s a really good book called Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina, and it touches on why humans tend to view and treat dogs differently from other animals. There’s a few others I have read specifically on the topic as well, but I can’t recall the titles. If you are actually interested in why…

“can these women with their OOODLES of cash care about, I dunno, humans?”

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How would that keep people from recording / taking photos?

Yeah, let’s all go through life doing what we “feel like”, regardless of laws / rules / policies. Belive it or not, venue / event tickets qualify as legally-binding contracts. If you agree (by purchasing the ticket / entering the venue) to the rules / policies to not record the event, then it is not your ‘option’ to…

So does the venue staff perform a full pat-down search on every person as they enter, or do they just ask people if they have phones with them?

“If every new tragedy is the worst tragedy in history, we’re allowed to believe it will never be worse than this, and can absolve ourselves of any further need for action.”

Let it go, TamTams, let it go...!

I thought you were giving me the last word, TamTams?!? Let it go...!

More personal attacks! Even MORE classy! Personal attacks don’t require your agreement that they are personal attacks in order for them to be personal attacks! They are personal attacks by nature of being personal attacks!

Personal attacks! Classy!

Let it go, TamTams, let it go...!

Let it go, TamTams! I dare you! I double dare you! I double-DOG dare you! Let it go, TamTams, let it go...!

Nope - you didn’t let it go, you’re still replying and arguing! And I don’t cower to silly dares of inaction - even if you employ a meme or gif! Let it go, TamTams - let it go...!