The Contestants:
In one corner is the Internet, weighing in at 3,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds (weight of Earth); in the other corner, the music industry weighing in at 100 pounds (per hipster musician) and 180 pounds (per bloated label exec). Let the battle continue into Round 9,7384!
According to Bruce Warila: “When self-appointed guardians of the Internet and rights holders argue about the fall and the future of the music industry, you can put all of the talking points into two buckets:
Guardians of the Internet
Open, free, free culture, remix, sharing, do no evil, censorship, don’t break the Internet, innovation, value creation, music-will-be-like-water (don’t worry), scale, disintermediation, alternative income sources, patronage, greedy and shortsighted labels, etc..
Rights holders (artists, labels, publishers)
Copyrights, permissions, illegal sharing, stealing, royalties, negligible royalties, transfer of wealth, ad-supported sharing, free-loading, livable wages, the necessity of labels and publishers as investors, etc..”
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