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This is a natural conseqence of copyright law. It is hard for local talent to compete against unnatural monopolies. We subsidized mass produced media at the exp
by rwasco 3y ago
This is a natural conseqence of copyright law. It is hard for local talent to compete against unnatural monopolies. We subsidized mass produced media at the expense of decentralized talent.
- zibzob 3y agoI might be missing your point, but I'm not sure abolishing copyright would make much of a difference, in terms of increasing the number of people who can professionally make media. Supply and demand doesn't work properly in mass media, because one movie can supply the demand of everybody in the entire world, pretty much. We don't need a singer in every town, we only need a handful of talented people who can supply the music demands for everybody in the world - it doesn't really matter who they are. I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's how I generally feel about it. (Having said that, this article is pretty much "old man yells at cloud" for me.)
- Super_Jambo 3y agoIf you didn't have copyright people could remix stuff I guess?
- QuantumG 3y agoQuite the opposite. Copyright is all about encouraging the production of "art" and has all these exceptions to ensure the exploitation doesn't restrict creation. Without copyright we'd have guilds that enforce secrecy and fidelity.