Killing Art

Is fear of litigation killing Art?

The issue of over-privatization of Art in this article is a bigger problem that it seems.

Samples need to be public property. As the article points out, stories (and songs) are meant to be shared experiences...not privatized money-grubbing ventures.

It's scary to think that Public Enemy is still dealing with copyright issues today. This group, which basically started political hip hop, would simply not be able to get off the ground today. Why should big corporations and other such organizations able to afford sampling be the only one's allowed to add to public discourse? I hope the digital revolution with films can have a similar effect to Weblogs vs. Big Media...it's already been started with Napster and Kaaza...there just needs to be a middle ground somewhere.