Robin Bowes;200696 Wrote: > > Actually, Mozart struggled to make a living and died poor - he was > buried in a pauper's grave. >
Because he was profligate, not because he had trouble making a living. I've been to an apartment in Vienna he lived in - he had lots of money, at least for a while. His patrons were grand dukes etc. Anyway the point is there was a thriving music scene without copyright, as there probably had been throughout human history. Copying scores longhand really isn't very difficult, so that's not the explanation. What's different now is that there are new ways for musicians to make money which never existed before. Now they can sell recordings, and, in principle, earn a living. That's great, but it doesn't work - very few musicians make any money that way. So the system is broken, it isn't helping to create more art, and at the same time it's a great restriction on the public. That's exactly the situation where the law needs to be modified to make it less restrictive - but instead, the trend is the opposite, probably because corporations do make a lot of money from this, and they have a lot of power. It's interesting that what is happening is precisely what Jefferson feared - that creating even a limited monopoly like copyright would inevitably lead corporations to gain more and more power. As a result he was opposed to any form of copyright, and, ultimately, he may have been correct. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
