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I don't think getting rid of copyright would help musicians there, though. In the movie/TV world, today's exclusivity deals have pros and cons for artists, if y

I don't think getting rid of copyright would help musicians there, though. In the movie/TV world, today's exclusivity deals have pros and cons for artists, if you mean to highlight negative effects of copyright on artists in that regard (but how does that compare to the compensation from torrents, still)? But in the music world, there's much less platform exclusivity. (Copyright-aside, myself not having time to manage direct relationships with hundreds of musicians/bands is a good reason we still need the Spotifys of the world, though. And again, yesterday's middlemen were even more restrictive.) But I'm still really just waiting for someone in the "copyright is ruining culture" camp to tell me what exactly they want that isn't being catered to today, that is blocked by copyright? (In the US - internationally distribution systems have a lot of roadblocks so the answer becomes "access to certain pieces of foreign content at all")

anigbrowl 3y ago
And again, yesterday's middlemen were even more restrictive. I slightly disagree, in that record labels had one great virtue despite their faults: they'd give promising artists an advance and help them network with producers, graphic artists and so on. Most musicians today need to invest a lot of time in being their own recording engineers and so on just to make out of the gate. The big labels were notoriously predatory, but smaller labels did and continue to provide a lot of value to artists.