On Wednesday 07 July 2010 10:57:13 Hartmut Noack wrote: > Am 07.07.2010 16:21, schrieb drew Roberts: > > On Wednesday 07 July 2010 09:09:51 Hartmut Noack wrote: > >> So there should be a better system to make sure the work of artists will > >> be compensated if you want fulltime artists. > >> > >> And such work is scarce, because you need to have people working for > >> months to get an album filled with ideas manifested in actual > >> recordings. I am pretty sure Sean T Wright: http://www.seantwright.com has put out an album a month for an astounding number of months now. (I think that is the deal.) I do know that not all of us can produce at that pace though. Still, how many hours of music is put out each year these days? > > > > First we have a word issue here. What is the meaning you are using for > > the word "work" in the phrase: > > > > "And such work is scarce"? > > A physical manifestation of ideas. Can be a sound file, a written score, > canvas with paint upon etc etc etc Right, so not work is scarce as in I am working as in labour is scarce. You are saying works are scarce? I am not so sure works are scarce. Especially works in digital form. New works, perhaps. New pleasing works, perhaps. Once a scarce works is cast in digital form, the scarcity for "that" work is then gone in the natural order of things. Or going back, once a work is made public, the natural scarcity for that work is gone. The scarcity for the works "containers" may remain. > > > Works of art may be naturally scarce, but copies of works of art are not. > > Especially digital copies of them. For physical copies, the materials of > > which the copy is made may be scarce and this may cause the physical copy > > to be scarce. > > > > So, can we find a way to "pay" for the naturally scarce bit without > > trying to legally make the naturally abundant digital copies legally > > scarce? > > That is, indeed the question and the problem to be solved. > > > all the best, > > > > drew > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > !DSPAM:4c34b8b7115071804284693! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
