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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
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.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.
Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.