11-18-2009, 06:02 AM
This is a difference between desired form of appreciation and actually given form of appreciation.
Also if you look at it, in the sharing of music those who share the most music are also those who spend the most money on it. So the two are intricately connected. You can't punish the thief without punishing the customer.
If you're an artist and produce beauty. Then people are going to share this beauty. Sometimes they'll pay for it sometimes they don't. The people who steal your work are ironically also the people who pay your bills.
Interesting figures are coming out. I recently read an article where it was suggested that an artist needs only 1000 loyal fans to live comfortably. So artists should focus on fan base nurturing as opposed to just gaining as much notoriety as they can. And artists are trying funny experiments like writing a book and then people can sign up and pledge a certain amount of money, none of it will be actually given until the book is written, once enough is pledged they write the second book, so the artist knows how much he's going to earn even before setting out on writing the book. That's even better than most book publishing companies can do
The old forms of doing business are dying. But there's goldmines out there for the creative.
Maybe you can catch phrase future entertainment industry as "Hire a hero"
Also if you look at it, in the sharing of music those who share the most music are also those who spend the most money on it. So the two are intricately connected. You can't punish the thief without punishing the customer.
If you're an artist and produce beauty. Then people are going to share this beauty. Sometimes they'll pay for it sometimes they don't. The people who steal your work are ironically also the people who pay your bills.
Interesting figures are coming out. I recently read an article where it was suggested that an artist needs only 1000 loyal fans to live comfortably. So artists should focus on fan base nurturing as opposed to just gaining as much notoriety as they can. And artists are trying funny experiments like writing a book and then people can sign up and pledge a certain amount of money, none of it will be actually given until the book is written, once enough is pledged they write the second book, so the artist knows how much he's going to earn even before setting out on writing the book. That's even better than most book publishing companies can do
The old forms of doing business are dying. But there's goldmines out there for the creative.
Maybe you can catch phrase future entertainment industry as "Hire a hero"