Artist Formerly Known as Prend (AFKAP): Alam mo, I hate the Internet. Imagine, hindi pa man lumalabas mga kanta namin, marami na nagda-download! And there’s this band who’s copying my songs!
Read as: I am such a rockstar. (Long hair blown by the wind)
Me: Eh bakit nyo naman kasi in-upload yung mga kanta nyo?
AFKAP: Para may access ang fans sa music namin.
Hehe. Oh my dear old friend, to quote a very wise professor *wink* “If you put it out there, assume that the whole world would know about it.”
With this truth, all artists face a dilemma. While their creativity is shared to others (which I think, is the end goal of all forms of Art), this same phenomenon stifles their creative juices – for fear that someone, somehow, somewhere will copy their work.
Let’s look at it from their point of view: For music artists, it costs more to produce an album though a middleman (a recording company) than it is to produce it at their own studio with computer paraphernalia. It’s just the promotion of the album left to undertake. For underground rock bands, the method of choice is to promote their music through websites (and word of mouth). Probably the same goes for photographers or painters. Instead of putting their work in a gallery (which would be very expensive), they could just post digitized replicas in their sites. But then, they would always have that nagging feeling that their work would be in constant danger of being plagiarized. I wouldn't know how it goes for e-books (but I adore Google books because I could read excerpts for free). *So how now, brown cow?
*phrase not mine, all rights reserved to the genius who coined it
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