In a culture without copyright, only the rich, or the government-sponsored, could be this culture's full-time creators. Poor artists such as Loretta Lynn would have to flip burgers long into their music careers -- and might even give up on music entirely.
For these reasons, imagining a world without copyright wouldn't just impoverish the musicians. It would also impoverish the museum, the culture and music itself.
Yah, who wants to listen to crap from government-sponsored hacks like Mozart and Haydn and Bach? It's amazing we even had the word "culture" before AOL/TimeWarner came along!
I got rid of my cell phone recently. Yes, they're annoying, and people that use them a lot are annoying, but the real reason I got rid of it was that I was tired of having calls dropped, of not being able to hear the other end, of them not being able to hear me, and of calls just not going through. I asked around to see if anyone had had a better experience with their provider and the universal response was "no, they all suck". So until they don't suck, I refuse to give 'em any more of my of my money.
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In a culture without copyright, only the rich, or the government-sponsored, could be this culture's full-time creators. Poor artists such as Loretta Lynn would have to flip burgers long into their music careers -- and might even give up on music entirely.
For these reasons, imagining a world without copyright wouldn't just impoverish the musicians. It would also impoverish the museum, the culture and music itself.
Yah, who wants to listen to crap from government-sponsored hacks like Mozart and Haydn and Bach? It's amazing we even had the word "culture" before AOL/TimeWarner came along!I got rid of my cell phone recently. Yes, they're annoying, and people that use them a lot are annoying, but the real reason I got rid of it was that I was tired of having calls dropped, of not being able to hear the other end, of them not being able to hear me, and of calls just not going through. I asked around to see if anyone had had a better experience with their provider and the universal response was "no, they all suck". So until they don't suck, I refuse to give 'em any more of my of my money.