[ox] Fwd: Survey: Copyright laws work against creativity
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:04:55 +0100
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From: Philip Steffan <philip lunique.de>
A new survey shows that copyright doesn't earn musicians a living, quite
contrary in some cases it costs them more that they can afford:
<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_1/kretschmer/>
Abstract:
Digital technologies are often said (1) to enable a qualitatively new
engagement with already existing cultural materials (for example
through sampling and adaptation); and, (2) to offer a new
disintermediated distribution channel to the creator. A review of
secondary data on music artists? earnings and eight in?depth
interviews conducted in 2003?04 in Britain and Germany indicate that
both ambitions have remained largely unfulfilled. The article
discusses to what extent the structure of copyright law is to blame,
and sets out a research agenda.
(Seen on Boing Boing,
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/09/musicians_dont_earn_.html>)
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