[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet (Mike Godwin)

["Steven Shaviro" <shaviro@shaviro.com>]

Eric Miller wrote:
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In the end, set aside any resentment of the corporate parents for a
moment, 
and let me ask a simple question: if content producers effectively lose
the 
right to compensation from and distribution of their works because of 
advances in technology, what do you think that's going to do to the
quality 
and availability of content?
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Answer:
I think it would radically increase both the quality and availability of
"content" (or art) because most content (or art) is made by sampling and
reworking previous content (or art). Far from being an incentive,
current copyright restrictions severely restrict new creation,
effectively turning it into a monopoly of large corporations. 

S

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