Authorship
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- fresnobob0
@ stewdio
I don't think theres any devaluation going on here. First of all the company asked the artist if he wanted to be involved and he said no. That's his fault, he could have gotten richer off of it but he chose not too. Also, if the artist was heavily involved in creating the technology that made the piece, which is open source, he clearly wasn't asking for much credit on that end.
Secondly, the point of my previous post is that he shouldn't want or need that personal gain from it. For example, look at the history of music. Only in recent times did people have to pay other people to play there songs, before that everyone was pretty cool because it was all for the sake of making music. How many folk songs do most people know as Bob Dylan songs? A lot. Did that devalue any of those said songs? Not at all, in fact there is a lot more people now aware of those songs.
Anyways, I would say that there's at least a small number of people (us here on QBN and all the dudes on Vimeo, plus anyone else who heard about the situation) who are now aware of the original artists work who otherwise would not have been. If that isn't leading to him gaining more work or more exposure, I'm not sure what would. There is no devaluation, there is actually value being added through exposure. That is how art goes from being ideologically valuable to society to monetarily valuable, more people see it, thus more people want it, thus the price goes up.
As another point, lets take the example of typefaces in graphic design. Yes, many typefaces cost money, but in how many pieces of design do you see the typeface credited, along with the designer? Almost zero. Isn't this the same thing, using another's idea without giving proper credit? Designing a nice and complete typeface takes easily as much effort as did the piece of work in question so why aren't these type designers given more credit? Its because they realize they don't really need that credit and are happy to see their creation in use in a way they possibly didn't quite imagine. The whole idea of giving credit and wanting credit is a bullshit ideal set forth by selfish individuals. Anyways...