MCN’ers: A small provocative tribute to David Bowie:
“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing.'' ''Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity,'' he added. ''So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn't matter if you think it's exciting or not; it's what's going to happen.'' David Bowie, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/arts/david-bowie-21st-century-entrepreneur.html And just as an aside: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/18000633302/why-radio-stations-probably-couldnt-just-play-david-bowie-music-as-tribute-copyright-law-is-messed-up.shtml Last night, a local station played all of Bowie’s last album, Blackstar, track by track. No idea if that was legal in my country or not. But it sure was great. Amalyah Keshet
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