Re: [microsound] industry loses big!!!!??

[<tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erm....

Do any of you actually make your living from having your music published and
sold?
Myself and some of my friends do. It kind of puts a different perspective on
things for you.
And suprise, now glitch/electronic music is a 'lifestyle choice' file
sharing/cdr is
undoubtably second nature. So electronic music is currently the most
saturated, duped and disposable genre around.
This does ultimately effect those for whom it is ther job. I wonder if
people would photocopy entire books rather than buy them?
I do copy stuff, of course, but i don't like doing it, especially from
independent artists/labels (which is most microsound type stuff)
I'd rather be giving something back to the person that gave me the music (if
its not shit of course!)
so that they can perhaps spend another hour or so writing new stuff not
having to go to the office..
Also, some people gig out new track before they have them ready for release,
but now, the tracks are out on the net, before the gig is over.
Say people check out the tracks and don't like em, don't buy/get the
record.. Thats the point, the tracks werent meant for this, they are an
experiment,
but someone else has taken them and put them out of context? fair enough,
but should this make the artist refuse to try stuff live
or play new tracks until the record is out. I agree with the earlier
comments that mp3 hoarding is often just a fashion choice like label buying.
Ive probably got 3 mp3s on my machine and a shed load of vinyl... it sounds
better:)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Carver" <fscthaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:55 AM
Subject: RE: [microsound] industry loses big

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jan.l [mailto:jl@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:16 PM
> > To: microsound
> > Subject: RE: [microsound] industry loses big
> >
> >
> >
> > And since banks no doubt are robbing money from their customers makes it
> > perfectly o.k. to go buy a gun from a guy in some alley and start
> > robbing banks.
> >
> > Actually there are groups that do just this. Mayne you should join?
> >
> > You may claim you dont like the copyright laws and that makes
> > piracy o.k. I
> > might declare I beleive that private property are wrong and take
> > your laptop and
> > it would be equally o.k.
> > Actually the copyright laws are there to protect the artist. It
> > makes sure that
> > Dow Chemical cannot use my music in their ads or presentation
> > material.
>
> In the U.S., at least (where much of the music piracy conflict seems to be
> centered), this is not the case. U.S. copyright law is intended to provide
> rewards for people who create (artists, scientists, etc), because
promoting
> creations of these sorts is better for society as a whole. Copyright laws
> are /not/ in place to protect the artist, only to reward the artist, and
as
> a result provide a wider variety of artistic works to the public. A
> reproduction of a copyrighted work is vastly different, in this system at
> least, from a privately possessed laptop. The claim many make is not so
much
> that they don't like copyright laws: rather, it is that copyright laws as
> they currently stand, do not even remotely accomplish what it is they were
> created to do, and so are not justified.
>
> Many European countries consider the right to control intellectual
property
> a natural right, though. I'm unsure exactly how this is argued, but I
would
> be curious to know. On one hand, I do feel that I, as a person who enjoys
> listening to music, have /some/ kind of moral obligation to compensate an
> artist who's work I enjoy (regardless of what the law requires). However,
I
> am also struck by the absurdity that someone could possess a natural right
> to control /copies/ of a work of art that they willingly released to the
> public in an easily reproducable format.
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
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