[cc-community] Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Sat Nov 17 11:45:50 EST 2007


jonathon wrote:
> Evan wrote:
>> Imagine a world where artists, writers and musicians aren't amply 
>> compensated for their work.
> 
> In the current world
[...]
>> Where creators live off welfare, or soul-deadening day jobs ....
>> Thank God we don't live in such a catastrophic dystopia!!
> We do.

I think we can safely assume that Evan's comments were *meant* to be
ironic. :-)

> Historically, creative people have always lived on the margins of 
> society.

Though true, this states the status quo, not an argument for maintaining
it -- a society that rewards creativity better would presumeably be more
productive.

> J K Rowling was living on welfare checks whilst writing the first two
>  Harry Potter novels.

But not the last two! :-)  JKR is a success story of the old copyright
system.

> Vincent Von Gough was living off of his brother during his entire 
> painting career.

That, however, is not -- and is probably more typical.

But just because our present (and past) system sucks, doesn't mean we
can't create a worse one.

And if we go off half-cocked, talking about "encouraging altruism"
instead of thinking realistically about how to make such a system work,
then we're even likely to. "Failing to plan is planning to fail" and all
that.

Cheers,
Terry

-- 
Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com



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