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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: Hamilton02 AT aol.com
  • Cc: Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Re: copyright confusion comment
  • Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:18:09 -0000

Hi: I resent your label of socialist! Then, again, maybe I don't. It
makes no difference, I guess, other than you didn't read the words I
wrote with any comprehension of what was stated. There is nothing in
what I wrote to indicate that government had anything to do with Open
Studios' approach to assisting communities to build and operate
community-based recording studios. Funding through community giving is
the foundation, independent of government assistance. The revenues,
when such endeavors are scaled to include large participation within a
state, are significant. Any state government would have to applaud such
additional revenues provided through community-based recording studios.
Artists, authors, and musicians have no reliance on receiving government
support in the Digital Age. They don't need it, as you illustrated with
reference to the Public Works of Art Programs of the 1930's. Of course,
some outstanding stuff came from socialist? Diego Rivera, I think. But
then, he wasn't a product of the programs, was he.

For the most part, I think also, that local access tv stations are
moving to self-sustainable business models, which, unfortunately, for
now, anyway, are invariably locking out the poor, and the
disadvantaged. Open Studios makes use of the technology advances, and
offers opportunities for all local residents, and, of course, relies on
the business models that accompany our brand new Digital Age!
Entrepreneurship is about to turn a corner. . . . .

Which reminds me of one of my favorite sayings, which I don't know who
the author was, "When history turns a corner, all the thinkers fall off
the caboose." Hope you don't fall off. :)
Tom

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:08, Hamilton02 AT aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/7/2003 3:37:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> tompoe AT amihost.com writes:
>
> > where the individual no
> > longer needs a monopoly to earn income from their creativity
>
> This is where we disagree. As I move farther into your piece, though, I
> think we have a fundamental and deeper disagreement. Your views are, in a
> nutshell, socialist. Mine are decidedly free market. I don't see anything
> to
> applaud when the government becomes the underwriter for art. The art that
> came out
> of the WPA was execrable. MAH






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