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Star Wars Prequels

Submission + - The People vs George Lucas / Who owns art? (bbc.co.uk)

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Aguazul
Aguazul writes: "The BBC has an interesting take on George Lucus' meddling with our memories: "Fans of Star Wars are not happy. Someone has been tampering with their movie history." They speculate on who really owns a piece of art. Even the artist doesn't really know what he's created, and a work doesn't become 'something' until given value by an audience: "the artist is merely the medium for his or her work". Many people contributed to the Star Wars trilogy. Is Lucas' over-inflated idea of his own importance in the process the reason he is stopping people seeing the unmodified originals?"
Music

Submission + - Are downloads really killing the music industry? O (guardian.co.uk)

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Aguazul
Aguazul writes: "The music industry does like to insist that filesharing — aka illegal downloading — is killing the industry: that every one of the millions of music files downloaded each day counts as a "lost" sale, which if only it could somehow have been prevented would put stunning amounts of money into impoverished artists' hands. [...] If you even think about it, it can't be true. People — even downloaders — only have a finite amount of money. In times gone by, sure, they would have been buying vinyl albums. But if you stopped them downloading, would they troop out to the shops and buy those songs? I don't think so. I suspect they're doing something different. I think they're spending the money on something else. What else, I mused, might they be buying? [...]"

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