I hope artists will pause and realize that misplaced blame and oversimplification of the issues could set us back. Physical album sales are not the long-term solution (case in point: the laptop I’m typing on doesn’t have a CD drive)… …and he’s not even trying to be funny. via Spotify Doesn’t Hurt Artists: My Band…
Or: What is it that [“original” artist] doesn’t have that s/he would have if [other artist] had never appropriated the[ir work]? What is it that Heath doesn’t have, that he would have if Lichtenstein had never appropriated the panel? via On Lichtenstein and “theft” | parker higgins dot net.
The doorbell rings. Young daughter answers. Nobody is there. She looks down. There’s a package. From Amazon . . . Be sure to make the video on the left fullscreen after clicking this link. Take note if the simple, aural addition of strings is enough to evoke an emotional response in you. How scary is…
Agreed. …humans are bright enough to think our way out the problems we think ourselves into. via Neil Gaiman: How I learned to stop worrying and love the duplicator machines – Boing Boing.
I’m excited to find out about this book. I wasn’t aware that Cory was working on something non-fiction. The second quote below defines the internet as “one great big copy machine” which is amusingly accurate. I had the opportunity to ask an interviewee for a one-word definition of the internet. Her response was the word…