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Originally Posted by porno jew
yes and if you are artist yourself or know any you know cutting through the noise of all the cheaply produced content now is just as hard as getting a record or book deal in the pre-internet age.
ironically it usually still takes old and big media promotion like a story in the NYT or the rolling stone to break a DIY artist now.
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then why is the average income of artist going WAY up now.
here are some more examples of unknown artist succeed
http://money.futureofmusic.org/case-study-a/
and you can look at kickstarter to see tons of artist making huge advances without a record company
many of them just youtube stars.
Copyright protection only helps you if you have tons of money to hire lawyers to sue people.
without that base of cash all the copyright protection in the world is useless
so giving it up to get access to an army of fans who will "pay you" by promoting you is worth it.
If your shit is good, they will pay you after they consume your stuff simply to support you.