Music is like air in the sense that it will always be created, it is as natural as speech for humans, stories and song are to people as oxygen creation is to a plant, the amount of funding may effect the quality (subjective) and quantity (unlikely), but that is the entire point of funding new distribution channels that pay artists directly (which this author equates with "Not respecting the funding of Creation").
Coming from Nashville/Austin I can assure you, the reason people are interested in distribution channels is because that IS the music industry.
All this copyright hubbub is just a natural protectionist attempt to keep the high cost/barrier of entry for musicians (not just to distribution but profitability) by established entities like clearchannel, et al. You can't convince a new musician to sign a predatory contract when they have reached profitability through an easier distribution channel.
From an artists perspective: Talent isn't going away, at first the internet made the talent acquisition process easier and faster for studios, but Talent now has easier options for sustainable profitability through these new distribution channels. Studios have come to simply hate how much harder contract negotiations become when the artist they are targeting is already "making enough".
There is a lot more nonsense in this article regarding "Lines of Computer Code", "Forced Open Source" and the like, along with absurdist FUD like "What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations?", give me a break.
Coming from Nashville/Austin I can assure you, the reason people are interested in distribution channels is because that IS the music industry.
All this copyright hubbub is just a natural protectionist attempt to keep the high cost/barrier of entry for musicians (not just to distribution but profitability) by established entities like clearchannel, et al. You can't convince a new musician to sign a predatory contract when they have reached profitability through an easier distribution channel.
From an artists perspective: Talent isn't going away, at first the internet made the talent acquisition process easier and faster for studios, but Talent now has easier options for sustainable profitability through these new distribution channels. Studios have come to simply hate how much harder contract negotiations become when the artist they are targeting is already "making enough".
There is a lot more nonsense in this article regarding "Lines of Computer Code", "Forced Open Source" and the like, along with absurdist FUD like "What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations?", give me a break.