7 Jul
2010
7 Jul
'10
7:50 p.m.
On Wednesday 07 July 2010 10:57:13 Hartmut Noack wrote:
Right, so not work is scarce as in I am working as in labour is scarce. You
are saying works are scarce?
I am not so sure works are scarce. Especially works in digital form. New
works, perhaps. New pleasing works, perhaps. Once a scarce works is cast in
digital form, the scarcity for "that" work is then gone in the natural order
of things. Or going back, once a work is made public, the natural scarcity
for that work is gone. The scarcity for the works "containers" may remain.
Am 07.07.2010 16:21, schrieb drew Roberts:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2010 09:09:51 Hartmut Noack wrote:
>> So there should be a better system to make sure the work of artists will
>> be compensated if you want fulltime artists.
>>
>> And such work is scarce, because you need to have people working for
>> months to get an album filled with ideas manifested in actual
>> recordings.
I am pretty sure Sean T Wright: http://www.seantwright.com has put out an
album a month for an astounding number of months now. (I think that is the
deal.)
I do know that not all of us can produce at that pace though. Still, how many
hours of music is put out each year these days?
First we have a word issue here. What is the meaning you are using for
the word "work" in the phrase:
"And such work is scarce"?
A physical manifestation of ideas. Can be a sound file, a written score,
canvas with paint upon etc etc etc Works of art may be naturally scarce, but copies
of works of art are not.
Especially digital copies of them. For physical copies, the materials of
which the copy is made may be scarce and this may cause the physical copy
to be scarce.
So, can we find a way to "pay" for the naturally scarce bit without
trying to legally make the naturally abundant digital copies legally
scarce?
That is, indeed the question and the problem to be solved.
all the best,
drew
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