Œuvres de Rebecca Giblin
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Beacon Press (1)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 164
- Popularité
- #129,117
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 12
To take one example, it had always been my assumption that copyright law worked in favour of music creators and performers.
Giblin and Doctorow show how copyright benefits routinely flow to the record labels and their corporate overlords for many years, sometimes generations, while the artists themselves spend themselves into penury paying off the debts of music production and “development.”
Do talent agents always seek the best deal for their clients? Well, not necessarily, especially when the talent agency possesses equity in the production studio.
Or when music labels have equity in Spotify.
In the creative industries as in many others the logic of private equity forces down the wages of labour. Luck favours the rich.
The authors favour corrective measures to level the playing field including reverting copyright to creatives after a reasonable period, fairer reporting of residual benefits, accessible accounting, and mandatory disclosure of financial conflict of interests.
Measures the EU have enacted contrary to public perception likely entrench the interests of the tech oligopolies and oligopsonies (read: “all powerful buyers like amazon”) by making the barriers to entry increasingly filled with endless read tape only the rich can navigate.
So the field is complex, littered with good intentions, and a minefield of conflicts of interest.… (plus d'informations)