Let's see if this gets any play...

[sen_no_ongaku]

Proposal: Art should be created without the expectation of material compensation.

True or false?

Commonplace attitude or not?



[EDIT: This is not intended to imply that something created for with such an expectation cannot be art, though I may propose that sometime later.]

Comments

Re: while we're on the subject of P2P

[sen-no-ongaku.livejournal.com]

I think the issue I have is if an artist has had *no say* in whether or not to make his/her/their work available on a P2P network. I imagine that there are quite a few musicians and such who use such networks to advertise their music.

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While information is potentially infinitely reproducible and a Twinkie is not, you are still taking something whose owner has not explicitly allowed you to. The absence of material loss is not justification.

Re: while we're on the subject of P2P

[shgb.livejournal.com]

actually, I argued a very similar position during a Slashdot bashing of Metallica around the time Lars delivered his famous list of "users-to-ban" to Napster.