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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
Are creative people motivated by nothing more than money? I myself love passing on knowledge and sharing my art (photography). I've made a living at photography, and far prefer my current role now as an educator.
In photography there has been a massive shift and there continues to be controversy over who owns images that contain people - is it the portrait/wedding photographer, or the subject of the photos. Who has the right to make copies of images of them within?
In the years I spent shooting weddings and portraits, I charged for my services, not my materials. I provided negatives to clients upon request, while others did not perceiving their only "leverage" to make more money in owning the negatives and charging $40 for an $8x10 that cost them $0.50 if they printed in their own lab, or $8 at the pro-lab down the street. I heard of photographers in town getting into shouting matches in the middle of stores when they chanced to encounter each other because, usually, the old guard felt threatened by the business models of the new guard.
I chose a different approach to the status-quo in doing so, but guess where the major shift is now, especially with the advent of digital. The mode of thought has changed around the issue for many and continues to do so.
Is it so hard to believe that many of the computer generation see the world differently? I can understand being scared...but don't understand not wanting to learn more about what scares me.
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First, I said almost no innovation. Not none. There is a difference.
Yes, there are some people who would still be creative even if there were no financial rewards. However when those rewards are taken away, there will be a huge decline in new material. Part of it is simply because people would no longer have the time to do as much creative work as they could if they were paid well for their works.
As far as the stuff about being scared or not wanting to learn, I think you are way off course. This has nothing to do with the topic at hand.