The MPAA continues to slide sleazy push-polls into its "MyMovieMuse" service, which is nominally a service where you can give feedback about the kinds of movies you want to see. The latest is a newsletter announcing that "86% of you feel that creative ideas are property, just like furniture," stuck in among banalities like "Who's your favorite movie monster" and "Top grossing box office for September." MattyMatt rebuts:
# If creative ideas are owned like physical objects, just like furniture, can I buy them at Ikea? And is it expensive for me to think of new ideas, because I have to pay for thought-materials and thought-warehouses and thought-customer-service?
# If people should be compensated for their creative works, and creative works are the same as ideas, why isn't anyone paying me for all the ideas that I have every day?
# If selling a painting on eBay makes an artist feel violated, does Sotheby's make them feel REALLY violated?
# If "good stories" are what brought up box office numbers this year, why is that movie list's mean RottenTomatoes score only 59.4%? (54%, 77%, 57%, 24%, 76%, 57%, 75%, 72%, 31%, and 71%, respectively.)
(Thanks, MattyMatt!)
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