On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Sy Chen <shi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you consider hourly rate and labor of efforts seriously, most of > the prices are low and unjustified (IMHO). The profit can only > compensate part of the labor and time for most of the cases.
Well, that's generally the way the selling of artistic products works: pricing isn't about the recovery of time and labor. At least not in practical terms for most artists. Generally artists are relying on multiple sales or that the sales are in investment in growing an audience for future sales, or they understand that there is no guarantee that even the most passionate artist can make a living--or even a profit--from their work. The musical score analogy is interesting, but that's already the way it *could* work (and sometimes does): using a diagram one has purchased to make money could, as many advocate here, be subject to payment for those "performance" rights as one does with musical scores. That is: if one accepts that premise. Maybe origami is more akin to recipes, though. It would be interesting if the source started selling completed models! c -- Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org>
