Musicians on Internet & Filesharing

reverseengineer writes "A Pew Internet & American Life survey asked (large PDF) 809 artists and 2,755 musicians, songwriters, and publishers about how they use the Internet, and whether it has been beneficial or detrimental to their success. Results (larger PDF) are quite interesting, with near 50-50 splits on a variety of questions involving fair use and filesharing. A quote from Pew's summary: 'Across the board, artists and musicians are more likely to say that the internet has made it possible for them to make more money from their art than they are to say it has made it harder to protect their work from piracy or unlawful use.' Here is the NY Times summary [ Free registration blah blah ] of the survey."

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Well, which is it?

[FortKnox]

From the summary:
Results (larger PDF) are quite interesting, with near 50-50 splits on a variety of questions involving fair use and filesharing.

OK, so everything is split in half.

'Across the board, artists and musicians are more likely to say that the internet has made it possible for them to make more money from their art than they are to say it has made it harder to protect their work from piracy or unlawful use.'

OK, they think the internet is good...

So... which is it??

Re:Yes and no.

[Kenja]

"Explain something to me... why is it copyrights currently last for what.. about 100 years after the creator's death, but patents lose their sole production status in about 10% of that time?"

By non transferable I mean just that. Cant leave it for your kids etc. I think the life time of the creator is a good term for copyright. Patents are another issue.