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> If an artist can't re-coup their costs in, say, thirty years, they are bad at business side of things and should get out of the way to allow other creative pe
by izacus 4y ago
> If an artist can't re-coup their costs in, say, thirty years, they are bad at business side of things and should get out of the way to allow other creative people to build on their work.
Can we get something straight? In vast majority of cases it's the massive content industry corporations that are doing the cost recouping here, not the artists themselves. Artists get tiny peanuts or even less if they weren't known enough to fight corporate lawyers of their own publisher.
"Poor artists recouping their life work" is a nice PR message from publisher corporations to defend status quo though.
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