[cc-community] Strayform - where artists and fans connect to fund and distribute new creative works
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Sat Jun 2 12:29:10 EDT 2007
On Saturday 02 June 2007 12:17 pm, Christopher Budnick wrote:
> On 6/1/07, dream dream <strayline69jp at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> > What we would like to see is a new way that media is
> > created and funded. It is designed to replace the
> > purchasing of CDs. Buying CDs is inefficent. With
> > current peer-to-peer technology their is no cost for
> > distribution. The real value is in the process of
> > creation.
>
> I partially agree with this, but I think it's also important to
> consider that the CD as an object, an artistic package, is a cultural
> artifact itself and of some value to a lot of us still.
I agree, personally, as I think I have said on this list recently, I would
like to see CDs start comming in the format that LPs came in in my younger
days.
Say the complete "Goodby Yellow Brick Road" package, full LP size, just with
CDs in place (or even as well as) LPs in the purchase.
>
> > So pay artists for creation. Funding the creation process
> > has many benefits. It is more efficent, resulting in
> > higher profits for artists and lower costs for consumers,
> > it removes the threat of piracy as a revenue drain on
> > artists, it allows fans to take part in the creation
> > process.
>
> I am not sure I follow this last bit, but I often see the conflation
> theft, piracy, and filesharing, even when well-intentioned. Right now
> I do not think there is much of a threat of music piracy as a revenue
> drain, as it stands, piracy unimpeded has had many positive effects
> and, to some extent, has inserted fans into the creation process in a
> way they haven't previously been, for better or for worse.
I agree with the conflation problem. Also there is the terminology problem. It
is not theft or piracy, it is copyright violations if anything. Loaded words
and all. File sharing happens to involve copyright violations at times but
can, and often does, happen without copyright violations.
I think the point that was being made is that if we paid up front for
production of music, and allowed free copying (and I would add, make the
music Free) then that copying would not deprive the artists of income. They
would have already been paid for making the music before the copying started.
>
> best
> c
all the best,
drew
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