Steinski On Copyright

Steinski: I called up one or two people at CBS and I sort of delineated the project for them and they - out of hand - they just went, “Wow! Y’know, good luck, buddy. You’ll never get that kind of permission from us.” And so I thought, Ah the hell with it, so I’ll just do it.

John: They just, they laughed at you, it sounds like.

Steinski: Well yeah. Well I would too if I was them.

John: Yeah, but isn’t it arguable that given the media’s involvement in making that occurrence such a public one that we should be allowed to use the media to express our own personal experiences of the event?

Steinksi: Nope.

John: You don’t think so?

Steinski: I don’t buy it. Hell no, man! I mean if I owned the copyright to Walter Kronkite? That’s mine, period. Forget it. 

John: So you respect copyright?

Steinski: Well, I respect it in theory, I obviously don’t respect it in fact.

John: How do you justify that, then?

Steinski: I don’t. This is what I do, man. God put me on Earth to make these records, y’know, so the rest is all commentary. I’m gonna make the records. I don’t even think about it too much to tell you the truth.

September 26th, 2012 11:07am