We do this for the Love, But unfortunately the supermarket doesn’t accept love, they want money.
You might have heard that music is very cheap to make these
days and computers make everything easy, and you don’t even
have to be able to sing.
That’s partly true. Big businesses have made a lot of money
selling cheap crappy junk to you. But that’s not our fault,
we’re real artists, we make real art.
Art takes time, its not easy at all. If you don’t believe us
try writing a song or directing a movie.
We all need to eat and keep warm. If we want to charge
anyone for our work, why should we feel any shame?
Defend Copyright. It’s All We Have Left. COPYLIKE.ORG
The biggest story of the week is no doubt the Pro-Creator/Copyright win in the court of public opinion which has the pro-piracy crowd tongue tied. Oatmeal Versus FunnyJunk is no doubt a case study for creators when looking at the illegal exploitation of their work. We applaud Matt Inman for turning the tables on those illegally exploiting his work in such a profound way. There’s much to be found on the Web this week about this story, and it deserves it’s own in depth post, until then this brief overview from Copyhype is our favorite: http://www.copyhype.com/2012/06/oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-a-brief-observation/
21 Cents per stream? We’re watching this one with interest. New music streaming service Arena says, “101 Distribution has announced the launch of 101 Arena, the first and only free streaming music service to pay 100 percent of all advertising revenue generated directly to artists and film makers.” To put this in perspective, Spotify is only paying out .005 Cents per Stream according to most published accounts. More info at this link from PR Newswire: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/next-generation-streaming-app-puts-focus-on-artist-profit-148672305.html
There is a lot of debate over how search engines operate, including the filtering and ranking of search returns. The way search engines operate is suggested to effect everything from consumer choices to the aiding in the illegal exploitation of copyrighted works, SearchEngineLand.Com reports: http://searchengineland.com/a-letter-to-the-ftc-regarding-search-engine-disclosure-124169
One of our favorite thinkers, Jaron Lanier gave a fantastic speech at the Personal Democracy Forum titled, “How to Not Create a New Cyber Plutocracy.” You can read more about Jaron and the Personal Democracy Forum at the link below, the YouTube video of his talk follows. http://personaldemocracy.com/media/how-not-create-new-cyber-plutocracy
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