opaqueice;200735 Wrote: > I know some that do... but perhaps more would if there was something to > replace it? For example, a tax of some sort (on blank CDs for example) > which went to a fund to support artists and public art/music programs? > A system of artists-in-residence at the federal, state, county, city, > university level? More public funding for local orchestras and smaller > ensembles? Done well, it could lead to a huge increase in the amount of > music being made, and people's exposure to it. Done badly, it would > lead to a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy. Such a system we have here in the Netherlands and to be honest: It doesn't work. The foundation that collects the tax on blank CD's has around 70 million Euros waiting to be given to the artists... for more than 3 years... And all they can do is babble away about how they should divide it so each artist gets a fair share...
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