Before the invention of recording devices, there were no professional musicians. Until they had a way to get recordings made and distributed via a label, there simply were no professional musicians. And the only way there can be professional musicians in the future is if the technological development, that led to recordings being made, stops from that point on.
Right?
“Before the invention of recording devices, there were no professional musicians. Until they had a way to get recordings made and distributed via a label, there simply were no professional musicians.”
I take your overall point, but I don’t think this is true as stated. Professional concert musicians, music halls, and hired musicians for entertainment go back farther than the phonograph. That’s the performance side. And on the composition side, you had court musicians and church musicians and whatnot. All those people earned a living from their work.
Right. I was being ultra sarcastic. One of the problem with these copyright laws is they act like one thin sliver in technological development must remain forever unchanged.
Well stated Mark. Of course, Bach, Mozart, Hayden, Handel, these guys just didn’t make any kind of living with music did they? Check out this book, it’s incredible and completely free to download and read:
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
Ah, okay, thanks, now I understand. It whizzed right past me! Sorry for assuming your ignorance rather than my own!