ChrisAnderson writes about the long tail in movies, and returns to music again. He quotes a newspaper article saying that music sales are down but music production is up. His comment:
Only a tiny faction of musicians are professionals. The rest do it because it’s fun. They keep their day job and make music because they want to. Never underestimate the motivational power of fun. ¹
Indeed. Most musicians I know do it for fun. We don’t need more hits, and we certainly don’t need to support a shrinking market using drakonian punishment for copyright violations. We need less copyright, not more.
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