A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.