I think the point was that the big corporations get the money from selling music.
And saying that bands currently make more money from touring kind of proves the point. They get too low % cut of music sales.
And saying that bands currently make more money from touring kind of proves the point. They get too low % cut of music sales.
Cut out copyright, and no one will be getting any money from selling music per copy (or equivalent) - as it should be.
this is what I mean when large players would outcompete smaller players in a digital marketplace with no copyright. the only way for this to work would be with a benevolent neutral 3rd party managing the marketplace, like Steam, so users can easily see when a large player is cloning a smaller players work - but even then it still depends on the good will of the general public to prefer the "original" artist which is not guaranteed.
I’m still not seeing how lack of copyright hurts small artists or consumers. Small distributors, maybe, but that’s not doing harm to the arts.