Complement - Re: [A2k] Iceland to become a model for freedom of communication

[Federico Heinz]

On 18/02/2010, Peter Jenner wrote:
> the fact that internet distribution has had a bad effect on creators incomes
> and is a cause for much anxiety.

Peter, you keep exaggerating: Internet distribution has had a bad effect on the
income of *some* artists. At the same time, it has had a good effect on the
income of others, and it would seeem to me that the positively affected
outnumber the negatively affected ones, as you would expect when income gets
distributed more evenly.

I'm sure you are familiar with this Times Online article that makes exactly
this point, using data from the music industry itself:

    <http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/>

	Fede