Louis CK enlightened view on copywrite
Louis CK asked someone to that down a torrent of a live performance. Not because of a violation of copy write but because it's a work in progress.
HI. I'm Louis CK. Can you please take this down? This show is a work in progress and was not intended to be passed around the internet. I have absolutely no problem, personally, with file sharing, and if you take everythign I have on the market on DVD, CD, and put it up for free downloading, I don't care. But this is an artistic and personal request. Please take this torrent down. thanks.
he goes on later in the comments explaining his actions to the other commenter's to clarify his early statement
by Louis CK
I'll explain it to you. yes it's me and I am a self-googling idiot.The reason I asked this fellow to take the torrent down is because the show I performed that he recorded was material that I was developing for the eventual recording as a new DVD/special. That's how I structure my act and my year on the road. I start the year with no jokes. I start writing, doing short sets in New York. Then I do longer and longer sets until I have a solid hour. Then I go on the road, starting in clubs and building the bigger and bigger venues. Finally, in the fall, I do a theater tour, during which I perfect the material through repetition and finally I record it as a special and then I throw that material away.
Once you commit something to film, tape or whatever, once it becomes a recording and certainly once it hits the internet, there is a permanance about it that transends live performance. This is something that is very important to me. It doesn't have to be important to anyone else. But because I care very much about it, I asked this person to take down this material because it wasn't meant to be experienced as a recorded event. This doesn't even mean that the show was beneath or not as good as what will be recorded. It just wasn't meant to be that way, not by me.
So I ASKED him to take it down. I didn't demand it. I don't expect him to sympathize or care how I feel about it being out there. I only hope he does. It turns out he did, which I'm grateful for.
As I said in my post to him, I don't view this as a property issue. I don't feel that he's stealing from me by putting my material online. He's just working against what I want in terms of timing of people hearing my stuff when I want them to. whether or not that carries any weight with him is up to him. If I felt he was stealing from me. I wouldn't ask. I would sue him. I guess.
Does that make sense to you?
By the way, once the DVD comes out, if he wants to put that clip back up, that is totally fine with me. I reposted to him and indicated as much.
anyway, this was far more than I intended to write. I'm going to bed now.
Take care, all.LCK
This is a guy who gets how the world is changing and how to react to it
