[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

micromoog micromoog at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 14:57:08 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Yeh, yeh, yeh, artists made art before copyright. What they didn't make was
> as much money as they now stand to make because of it. Ezra Pound once wrote
> that knowing a little hunger isn't necessarily bad for an artist, but
> starvation is definitely not good.

It is _not_ self-evident that a high profit-motive produces better art
in the same way it produces better widgets/business methods/etc.  In
fact, looking around at the output of today's highly-paid artists, an
argument could be made for the opposite.

In many cases, once an artist "hits it big", the quality (subjective,
I know) of their art drops off hard.


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