crazyskillsbloginitiative

…you come across something, you read something and think - unbelievable - that is so right on. Well wouldn’t you know, I was doing some reading on Slashdot a moment ago (yes Friday night and I’m reading Slashdot like the geek I am) ..Anyway, the article is titled “World Copyright Summit and the Lies of the Copyright Industry.” Catchy, huh? So anyway, there’s plenty I could talk about from this article, but what I really want to point out is one particular user’s comments.

Chyeld writes:

These “Artists” you speak of are the only people in the world that I’ve ever met who have honestly believed that they deserve to be paid by us in perpetutuality for ‘an hours’ worth of work using material they’ve borrows from us.

Engineers don’t expect a monthly check from the people who drive over the bridges built to their design.

Architects aren’t getting rich off the residuals on their building designs.

Your average office worker doesn’t even get paid for all the reports and charts they create.

Why is it that being an “Artist” should equate to “being paid forever (emphasis mine)”.

Just makes you wonder. I mean don’t get me wrong; I’d like to be paid forever, say, every time someone visits crazyskills, but I understand that isn’t going to happen. How did this come to be? Great point, Chyeld. I’ll let you know if I come up with anything.

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-art