Op-Ed: Art is essential and so are the people who create it. We have to start treating them that way (via latimesopinion)
There’s never been a better time to be an artist — not, that is, if you believe the story that has long been peddled by Silicon Valley. If you’ve got a laptop, you’ve got a recording studio. If you’ve got an iPhone, you’ve got a movie camera. And distribution is free — it’s called the internet. Just put your stuff out there, and soon you, too, can make a living doing what you love, just like all those viral stars you read about.
Staying alive means, principally, rent. According to the Census Bureau, median rent nationwide is up 42%, adjusted for inflation, since 2000. For most artists, becoming an artist means going to college, then perhaps getting an MFA, and tuitions have been soaring for years.Yes, being an artist has always been hard, but how hard matters.
Because of their enormous size, wealth and market dominance, Amazon, Google and Facebook have been able to flout copyright law and dictate prices and other terms to record labels, publishers and independent artists of all kinds. For example, YouTube, which is owned by Google,Advertisement
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