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First Monday - Artists' earnings and copyright
by logickal at 1:08 pm EST, Feb 9, 2005

An analysis of monies earned by copyright holders in the modern musical world. Not surprisingly, provides powerful ammunition against the RIAA arguement of the monetary loss to artists caused by file-sharing and digital music.


Artists' earnings and copyright
by k at 3:34 pm EST, Feb 11, 2005

[ I finally got around to finishing this, so I'm finally ready to meme it...

It covers the issue fairly well, I think, for one asserting that while exclusive copyrights do a good job of providing a system of revenue for major rightsholders, and established, successful artists, exclusivity isn't a boon for unknown artists, and in fact hinders them creatively.

There's a decent discussion of the fact that digitalization hasn't actually provided all the amazing things everyone thought it was going to, and some discussion of why.

Personally, what I took out of this, aside from the things i had already concluded about copyright, was that there exists a huge potential for reputation systems which can take the noise of so many competing voices and filter it into a truly useful channel for promoting quality work, that would otherwise never get noticed. This article talks about disintermediation of the distribution channels for music -- the internet is that, the ultimate lack of mediation. What's really needed is a method of mediating which isn't based as much on the marketing dollars of the majors, but on the interests and opinions of the people who listen to the music. -k]


 
 
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