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Copyright is not always intuitive

Donn Zaretsky points to an article by Nancy Wolff which outlines some of the idiosyncrasies of the application of copyright law to photographers. On the other hand, Georgia Harper writes about how natural it is for people to take pictures of public art.

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On March 12, 2008
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Is there hope for alternative business models?

Close on the heels of Sidorkin’s article on Matthew Barney’s mode of generating income from his art is an article by Glenn Peoples about fan-funded musicians (via Michael Geist). Barney’s model is about selling more than merely the film and distributing the film differently. However, the fan-funded model is essentially turning the traditional model of music production on its head. Rather than getting a record company to cover the costs of production, the musicians are going to their fans for the money. It almost feels like a commissioned process, only with multiple financial sources and great creative freedom. If this can be maintained (and can maintain the financial stability of the creators), it would be an excellent model.

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The “Matthew Barney” Model

Gleb Sidorkin has written for Tisch Film Review the article I’ve been wanting to write on this blog about Matthew Barney’s model for generating income from film. Unlike most “indie” film-makers (I use the term loosely — Barney is more of a multimedia artist than a “traditional indie film-maker”), Barney does not seek mass distribution of his work. In fact, most people are probably out of luck if they have missed The Cremaster Cycle or Drawing Restraint while they were “on tour”. It wasn’t until last summer when Anthology Film Archives in New York was screening Cremaster 2 as part of a Norman Mailer event that I was no longer one of the many Barney fans who had not actually seen any of his work. Sidorkin’s article is very thorough and insightful, and provides part of the answer to my burning question: what about visual artists?

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