Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.
We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.
Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.
Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.