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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
So your solution is to let the government handle this? 
and the government is going to figure out a system?
Who decides what constitutes "a talented artist"?
Pass the kool-aid to someone else.........I'm not interested. |
You can read some of the past 7 pages in this thread. The Government can encourage the improvement of recommendation algorithms, which mathematicians, companies anyone can work on using a standard API to hook into an open standard database of all the works of art and all the artists that are part of this system.
No where am I saying that the Government is hosting anything (other than I would say making sure that there is some type of backup of everything, safeguarding the cultural heritage is the Governments job) or providing any of those algorithms. The Government though needs to regulate things, cause you don't want any one company control the databases, control the subscription plans nor control the recommendations algorithms.
Itunes and the Kindle Store models kind of suck. And I think that it would suck if Google was the only company in control of yet another subscription plan for books. On the other hand it does not harm competition if Google and Amazon were both working on the same standard for the subscription plan, the same standard for measuring popularity of contents, the same standard for using any third party API to recommend content, the same database for all works of art and all artists and their fans.
You can leave the Government out of there and wait for companies like Google to come up with some kind of Open Social for the monetization of all types of arts on p2p networks. Or you can have a Government step in and say, this is it, let's monetize things now, let's solve this problem right now and let's kick start the revolution right now cause the market obviously has no clue how to fix this problem all by themselves.