Re:Scientists aren't faster learners... (Score 1)

As a graduate student in music, I might mention that a "true" musician doesn't compose music simply for profit or fame. There are just as many music professors and accomplished musicians who fully understand the intricacies of intellectual property and allow free exchange and performances of our music. We have our own academic journals, just like those in the sciences, and the approach of serious music study as a science is not far-fetched. Many musicians of the 20th Century have composed very interesting and thought-provoking music based on pure mathematical models. I would urge Slashdot, and its readers, to differentiate between those who make music for money and those who create art. Certainly, one would differentiate between Jonas Salk, who create the polio vaccine for all of humanity's benefit, and the profit-minded attitude of most pharmaceutical companies today. The sad fact is that people buy into image (see Britney Spears), certainly not the quality of music produced by most pop or rock artists of today. One cannot expect that the music industry will ever support a free exchange of recorded music... their music won't last in people's minds longer than a year or two. Anyone with a very basic knowledge of music theory could produce the trash that is churned out by Hollywood-minded record companies today. Likewise, little of the popular music of today requires anything resembling virtuostic musicality.