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Re: from slashdot, on RIAA vs File swapping..

9/3/2003 7:49 PM
Mark Lavelle	Re: from slashdot, on RIAA vs File swapping.. [QUOTE][...] No album, no movie scene, no written text is a personal creation, they are all taken from the pool of common culture, modified, and redistributed. Seeking all means to do this faster than ever - and ignoring the barriers, such as "ownership", that stand in the way - is the prerrogative of today's world. We simply can't put the genie back into the bottle and start exchanging pieces of paper and vinyl discs again.[/QUOTE]A bit Utopian, for my taste... I'm all for cutting out the middle man, but not at the expense of the artist. Without a specific artist you don't have a creation (or synthesis, if you prefer), so I believe that in an important sense the work does belong to the artist. I also believe that making art takes valuable time, and the artist deserves to be compensated. So the interesting question (from my POV) is: How can we use the net to cut out that grossly obese middle man and still get the artists enough compensation to survive (hopefully even prosper) doing what they do so well? And as a corollary, how can an artist get their work noticed without the consumer having to search for it 24/7?

9/3/2003 7:49 PM

Mark Lavelle

Re: from slashdot, on RIAA vs File swapping..

[QUOTE][...] No album, no movie scene, no written text is a personal creation, they are all taken from the pool of common culture, modified, and redistributed.

Seeking all means to do this faster than ever - and ignoring the barriers, such as "ownership", that stand in the way - is the prerrogative of today's world. We simply can't put the genie back into the bottle and start exchanging pieces of paper and vinyl discs again.[/QUOTE]A bit Utopian, for my taste...

I'm all for cutting out the middle man, but not at the expense of the artist. Without a specific artist you don't have a creation (or synthesis, if you prefer), so I believe that in an important sense the work does belong to the artist. I also believe that making art takes valuable time, and the artist deserves to be compensated.

So the interesting question (from my POV) is: How can we use the net to cut out that grossly obese middle man and still get the artists enough compensation to survive (hopefully even prosper) doing what they do so well? And as a corollary, how can an artist get their work noticed without the consumer having to search for it 24/7?

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