Music should be free for all

Granted rock music like any other form of art has its fair share of hell raisers but free music isn’t exactly society’s way of paternalism as it’s indiscriminate towards humanitarians and hell raisers alike. If they make more money from their CD’s or legal downloads then they would have less stress strain from having long tours without contact with their family and friends .
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yes i will because music should be free

Revenue in Britain and the USA might have risen (partly as a result of both countries cultural dominance when it comes to pop) but what about other countries in Europe or for that matter the world?! The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI reports that in France the number of album releases by new artists fell by a thumping sixteen percent and in Spain a paltry 0.1 percent of downloads are actually legitimate ones that go to the consumer.[[http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2009.pdf]] That doesn’t seem like free music benefiting the industry to me. Furthermore in the long run the music industry could stand to lose thousands of jobs by 2012 and an estimated £1.1 billion as a result, That’s a lot of money that’s not going to the industry.
A little bit of promotion free music will boost a musician’s career, but if music was all free, entirely free, then musicians would not generate any money at all, would they?

5 bucks for song? Where the hell do you shop? The most expensive ive seen a song is $1.29? and if you want to speak of such an art being too expensive, look how much paintings go for. You can get a whole album for a fraction of the price of a painting.

This means that you can purchase 10-15 pieces of art for half the price of a painting. Talk about pricey

You have no argument. And if you feel such way, stop listening to music and go get a job where you make no money.

There is clear evidence that the general public across the globe want artists to be paid and for their intellectual rights to be respected. In France 84% of people who had downloaded music illegally thought artists and copyright holders should be protected. Also nine in ten consumers thought that copyright should be enforced by strong laws[[IFPI “Digital Music Report 2009: New Business Models for a changing environment]]. While some musicians may be in favour of free music the public realise that there is no such thing as a free MP3 so to speak

Yves Riesel made this quote in 2008: “ The victim of online music piracy is the freedom of artistic expression.” and he’s right[[http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2009.pdf]] . As a result of the chunks that online piracy is taking out of the industry smaller independent labels and distributors some of which have had file for bankruptcy and close down like CBUJ which a lot of people will not have heard of but was responsible for the distribution of CD’s for 44 “different labels “whether artists or bands[[ Kyle Swenson ” Music distributor files for chapter 7″ The Nashville post Accessed 10.08.09 http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2009/7/20/local_music_distributor_files_for_chapter_7%5D%5D . While this event doesn’t show in itself that freedom of expression is being hurt it means that fourty four different labels have lost a way of distributing their tracks to the market and to people. That means that other genres have harder time breaking through and artists in a bid to gain sales to support themselves are limited in what genres or even what languages they can use and how far they can appeal.

Music isn’t the only industry affected by the prospect of piracy and file sharing. Industries such as animation have been thumped badly by illegal filesharing combined with fan subbing which has hit DVD sales of anime both inside and outside of Japan badly and discourages animation from other countries. This situation could also make other forms of material such as comics or even non fiction books (research into writing them costs money) prohibitively expensive with no return on investment not even to cover costs. Admittedly there is a time honoured thing called doing it for love not money but with that being said in order for musicians and artists of any sort to be professionals and to hold concerts etc they have to have income streams. And one of the main income streams is through selling their finished product. Take that away from any artists and he or she is left in a tough position that may turn them away from their chosen profession

As the above headline suggests, Beyonce is a music artist. This is her only job, she has nothing on the side apart form cinema ventures, when we buy her music, she gets paid. This is how she buys her food, clothes and other necessities.

Some may say, “She is too rich” she has more than enough. But, the point is as a result of her job and her produce, we decided we liked it, we bought it, we made her her millions. That’s the whole point of a job, to make money.

If music was free, Beyonce would have to go back to high school, graduate and go to university. Then she would have to start applying for jobs. Maybe she would go to college, do a vocational course, start her own business, get a job in a hair salon, who knows…

The point is, music is actually a career, meaning a job that makes you money. Maybe Beyonce isn’t a good example as she is already rich, but for a new artist starting out, their dream job would suddenly be unprofitable and they would make no money from it. They might be famous, but fame does not buy bread and butter.

Download legally please.

I think that many people are under the delusion that musical artists aren’t “really working”. This delusion needs to be shattered once and for all. Most musicians love music (as far as the making of and listening to goes) and hate “the business”. But every musician learns early on that he or she cannot continue to make well produced music without dealing with that very same business. There has to be some kind of cash flow; to think any other way as a musician is to doom oneself to failure on manifold levels.

Non musical people, aka the general listening public, think that Popular music stars live lives of decadence and don’t deserve to be paid for their hedonistic lifestyles. But, ironically, even the Rock Star lifestyle presented is more often than not a product of Public Relations, typically designed to sell cds.

Go buy cds and mp3s, people. Artists need your support, otherwise only computers will manufacture music. Being that the autotuner can make any fluffy girl or boy a star, we’re already halfway there.

In our current society, musicians often get very, very, very rich. Money is one of the prime motivators for making music. We risk losing a good portion of aspiring musicians if this motion was passed. We might also lose a good many listeners to music. If music was free, then surely, sooner or later, it’s novelty would wear off and people would get tired of it? If music was free, people would perhaps treat it like they would treat natural scenery; like something not really of worth and merely there for our casual entertainment. Songwriters would perhaps also lack enthusiasm for their songs, giving the public audience exactly what music was worth (free!)

Artists make billions of dollars on revenue every year. Much of this goes straight to charities, or powerful organizations. These organizations make up the backbone of our society, so why should we destroy this? Music is very much so a firm part of society, and taking this away could affect more than we think. Our economy is suffering already; why worsen this?

how can we say music should be provided for free yet some view it as both passion and profession and some even earn a living from it,i really beg to differ….

when artists get more money they instantly think that they are doing well and produce more songs then music becomes cheaper and everything is great :)

u r all faggots