Terrence writes;
How do people with large collections of music listen to them all on a
any regular basis?
Consider if you listen to music more often than books then the fact
that when a thing is collected and put away it suffers a sort of
silence, a little prisoner of commodification for which the artist is
paid for their work be quiet most of the time.
Aso; If someone plays a particular piece of music for a party of 50 and
several people go out and buy the artists work because of that then the
host does a kind of free promotional service. Therfore mps3 is both a
way for music to be copeid and silenced and also acts as a catalist for
free promotion for the artists.
An artist whose work is most often copied/mp3 could revel in that it
could get free promoton as a trade for being copied. If they are
bothered it is that they are not just deprived of income but that they
perhaps don't care if the work is more often enjoyed but that it suffers
the din of silence in archives of thousands with little play rotation
abd that it is not a dead end commodity whose purpose is mostly
exchange.
Most popular songs are played for a period after their release then they
are archived and played less often. It is that early period of a musical
peices release that is mostly of concern as it can indeed hurt
sales/profit margins. The issue of mp3 could be more easily resoved on
the movie release model. Ie video release. The popular artits could,
after a period of say 4-6 months, delcare the work mp3 free.
However it is the artits who reputation is just rising who's work takes
longer to be discovered who could suffer from less income. The trade off
there is that they could gain more attention by mp3 release. Indeed
emerging artists are being discovered this way.
It seems some have nothing much to lose, considering their existing
popularity and wealth and emerging artits something to gain from mp3
while others whose returns are entering the profit margin could have the
most difficulties.
I think an mp3 release date should be worked out somehow.
T.
artnatural
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The art and business of music is changing.
> May as well change with it...
> That is, eschew stasis.
> Check out:
> http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/34/32/boring.html
