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No, it has been done. Show and explain why you think it should be. All artists could do this if they wanted to. Why aren't there 400 flavors of Pepsi?

AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> Why aren't there 400 flavors of Pepsi? There are. They call them Diet Pepsi, 7UP, Gatorade, etc. But more to the point, music doesn't work like soft drinks. In soft drinks the product is physical and has a unit cost so the customer isn't just buying Pepsi once and then they have already have Pepsi and never need any more. In music an artist makes an album and then people buy it, at which point they have it and if the artist wants more money they have to make more albums. But making more recordings of the same songs is kind of like making more songs, in the sense that it's something people might want and don't already have.
- bongodongobob 2y ago
  It seems like you have just discovered music for the first time or you're an alien or AI.
  - rectang 2y ago
    Everything falls into place if you think of the arguments as aimed at reducing resistance to the abolition of copyright rather than actually helping musicians.
    - AnthonyMouse 2y ago
      The problem with existing copyright is it's written by record labels in order to screw customers and musicians instead of being written to screw record labels in favor of customers and musicians. You want something that makes it so a signed artist can't just do a cover of an independent artist's song, or use it in advertising, without paying. You don't want anti-circumvention laws that lock down consumer devices. But the laws do the latter -- which facilitates the monopolization of distribution -- and then artists de facto lose the former because once there's a cartel you're under pressure to sign with the record company and lose the rights to your music.

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No, it has been done. Show and explain why you think it should be. All artists could do this if they wanted to. Why aren't there 400 flavors of Pepsi?

by bongodongobob 2y ago

AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> Why aren't there 400 flavors of Pepsi? There are. They call them Diet Pepsi, 7UP, Gatorade, etc. But more to the point, music doesn't work like soft drinks. In soft drinks the product is physical and has a unit cost so the customer isn't just buying Pepsi once and then they have already have Pepsi and never need any more. In music an artist makes an album and then people buy it, at which point they have it and if the artist wants more money they have to make more albums. But making more recordings of the same songs is kind of like making more songs, in the sense that it's something people might want and don't already have.
- bongodongobob 2y ago
  It seems like you have just discovered music for the first time or you're an alien or AI.
  - rectang 2y ago
    Everything falls into place if you think of the arguments as aimed at reducing resistance to the abolition of copyright rather than actually helping musicians.
    - AnthonyMouse 2y ago
      The problem with existing copyright is it's written by record labels in order to screw customers and musicians instead of being written to screw record labels in favor of customers and musicians. You want something that makes it so a signed artist can't just do a cover of an independent artist's song, or use it in advertising, without paying. You don't want anti-circumvention laws that lock down consumer devices. But the laws do the latter -- which facilitates the monopolization of distribution -- and then artists de facto lose the former because once there's a cartel you're under pressure to sign with the record company and lose the rights to your music.