Nothing New
are art and music meant to be proprietary?
Jazz 1 - Digital Painting and Art Prints - 2005 - Dan Beck
I noticed an article about music piracy today. Actually to be more accurate it was noticed by Google Alert.
When I started blogging, I was advised to write on topics of my interest that were showing up in Google news or Yahoo news or as mentioned above. Actually, I now have real time news for both, but specifically for art prints and digital art.
So now that you have both the background and the link-fest - I can get to the point.
The truth is that all art and music are borrowed and/or stolen in some fashion. In most instances, the artist is not fully aware of all the influences, but can’t help but reference others by the nature of living in a culture.
Stealing outright is on the surface quite wrong - but the proprietary nature of an artistic work is a direct result of capitalism and only exists because of the money making nature of our world - people profiting off of someone else’s work.
My understanding is that Latin American authors use each other’s fictional characters - no one gets sued - it is cultural. Stealing of course, is wrong - and the article is about reselling, not creating something new with the music. But it prompted me to thinking and sharing these thoughts along with the above work which was obviously not created in a vacuum.
See Also
- Abstract Jazz Color
Previous article on above digital painting - Jazz 1 - Recording Industry of America
Article - this article is referencing - Picasso’s Musical Instruments
About above - but even Picasso took ideas from elsewhere
