Today on a small percentage of the most famous musicians are able to earn enough from selling downloads and CD's to make a secure living for themselves and their families.
The relatively long-term support that the label system once offered musicians is no longer the norm. Indeed, labels expect others, particularly artists themselves, to make these vital investments
When a label invests in a musician it is not necessarily investing in their music. Rather, labels wish to produce commercially oriented goods for exchange.
Patent Law: Patents are granted a term of 20 years. If it is a short term, it reduces amount of time to progress on technology. If longer, they can charge monopoly prices for longer.
Buying Music in the Current Market Reinforces a Relationship to Art, Music, Creation, and Creativity That Is Commodified Rather Than Active, Stifling Human Potential and Diminishing the Quality of Life in Our Societies
We no longer sing and play the songs of our ancestors. Instead, we purchase, listen to, play, and sing works produced by profit-centered, market oriented industries. This represents a massive and wholesale squandering of our cultural inheritances.
chelsea
