Interesting analysis of the economics of digital art...
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:28 pm
Interesting article, 'The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t' (in the NY Times).
It is a fairly long read, but packed full of data and insights.
One interesting bit:
It is a fairly long read, but packed full of data and insights.
One interesting bit:
...And yet collectively, the figures seem to suggest that music, the creative field that has been most threatened by technological change, has become more profitable in the post-Napster era — not for the music industry, of course, but for musicians themselves. Somehow the turbulence of the last 15 years seems to have created an economy in which more people than ever are writing and performing songs for a living...