Reply #25: I think you should dump the 'revolution' talk and pursue the economic arguments [View All]

[anigbrowl]

It could be said that music publication has already gone through several revolutions thanks to both cheaper production technology and the internet - and the same has happened with the written word, film, video and so on - although, I'd also consider revolution as a continuous cyclic pattern leading forward drive (like a wheel), rather than a single political event (like a coup or collapse).

I say this because political movements are often corrupted by ideological interests just as commercial ones are often corrupted by financial interests. On a very personal level, I write or compose because I want to provoke internal change in an audience member than because I want to propagandize something external; at the same time I also want to make a buck and sometimes Do It For The Money.

So, I encourage you to pursue this line of research and imagination, but I'm perfectly happy to look at different IP and business models as better, fairer forms of capitalism that allow the artist to make the most of their artistic capital on a genuinely level playing field, rather than politicizing it with cliche terms which will cause a lot of people to just give a knee-jerk response.

Besides, I'm also a little skeptical of revolutionary talk as when I visited the USSR back in the days of communism, it didn't strike me as any kind of artist's paradise unless you enjoyed producing work 'for benefit of glorious Soviet Republic'. There were good things about the USSR, but a lot of negative aspects as well.