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>but maybe something would emerge? Some indie games or open source projects live off donations. Kickstarters exist. And of course completely free art exists Su
by warrenm 3y ago
>but maybe something would emerge? Some indie games or open source projects live off donations. Kickstarters exist. And of course completely free art exists
Sure - "free" (or efectively "free" (to the majority of users/enjoyers) items exist
Patronage existed for millennia before the Rennaissance (and does still ... albeit in the form of member-only access and/or "publicly-funded" works)
But ... that model leads to markedly closed-off generation of new work - either it is generated for private use, it is generated for "specific" public use (eg to enjoy the statue in the town square), or (in a very small handful of cases) is generated on the "good graces" of the creator (eg Tom Lehrer turning his work over to the public domain a couple years ago ... though for the previous 50+ years, it was all under copyright (and, FWIW, still is copyrighted by Lehrer, it has just been opened to the public))