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Walter Benjamin would agree with you; but in an age when economic security still means personal security, and creativity is one way of achieving economic securi
by _petronius 11y ago
Walter Benjamin would agree with you; but in an age when economic security still means personal security, and creativity is one way of achieving economic security, stealing other people's creativity is pretty low, and isn't a cultural habit we should encourage.
- pmoriarty 11y agoWhether theft of something no one owns is possible at all is the question. As for achieving economic security off of making art, that is a reality only for a very lucky and very tiny minority of artists. The overwhelming majority of those who benefit from art are the middle men. We should carefully consider as a society whether we want to enable the middle men and a handful of lucky artists at the expense of almost all artists and the rest of society, who could well benefit from free and unfettered access to earlier cultural products.