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AgentRocket@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

If instead you would be paid for the making of the music regardless of how many copies of a digital file you sold by a better system that’s not based on private property

And how would that system decide how much you get paid and where would the money for that payment come from? How do you make sure a carefully crafted piece of music, that brings happiness to millions of people gets paid fairly compared to someone just putting together a song in 5 minutes by pressing random notes on the keyboard?

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floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What is “fair compensation”, in this case, for you? Does bringing joy to millions of people entitle you to more money or do you see the happiness you shared and subsequent fame as part of your “payment” - what you get out of it?

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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Any system to evaluate compensation would be better than the actual one, which is a completely mess that does not properly compensate artists for their work.

Currently marketing, frontstore presence and market dominance is far more relevant on a particular artist income than their craft.

Any system that actually would think about what people think about a particular craft, how much time and effort got put into it, how much it was enjoyed, etc, would be better. Currently is just about who can make more sales and get more ad money, the art is secondary and I’m being generous.

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