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Re:Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:03AM (#24373150)
I suspect none of your examples are factually correct, or even particularly relevant. I'm not aware of any significant trend of suing security camera owners for copyright infractions, for example.

Copyright on images and audio is actually how artists make most of their money.

Some musicians can play live, but what options do professional photographers have if they want to create work of lasting value?

Perhaps artists should move towards the software developer model and produce products that are never actually finished and never really work correctly, so they can spend their professional lives never quite fixing the problems they've created.

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Re:Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on... by white-flame on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:51AM (#24373433)
> I'm not aware of any significant trend of suing security camera owners for copyright infractions, for example.

It doesn't matter if anyone is being sued or in what quantity. Most types of incidental recordings have been declared copyright infringement in some capacity or another, and everything else is selective enforcement.

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Re:Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on... by amanaplanacanal on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:28AM (#24374727)
> Copyright on images and audio is actually how artists make most of their money.

This might be true for images, but I doubt this is true for music. I would bet that musicians as a whole make most of their money from live performances. Music labels make their money from copyright though.

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Re:Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on... by Antip0dean on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:23AM (#24375156)
> I would bet that musicians as a whole make most of their money from live performances.

That's certainly been true for artists who are locked into restrictive contracts. Live performances have usually been the main ways for many to make money outside of their recording deals, experiment, and to sell merch.

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Re:Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on... by ehnto on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:56AM (#24374121)
A lot of copyright claims on online platforms are not actually copyright infringement, but will have all the same repercussions as if they were. That's really the crux of the problem.
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