What do Artists want from Copyright?
There are a number of ways artists want to distribute their work. • Public Domain. Some artists don’t want their work covered by a copyright, or would prefer to give their creations to the World anonymously. • Royalty-Free – Some artists would like to be acknowledged as the creator of the work, but want to give it away for free and are not bothered about ever earning money from it. • Some artists want to be able to potentially earn a living from their art, but either have certain works they wish to give away, or would like their work to be freely available to certain people or businesses (such as a new artist looking for support from radio stations. Why should a radio station have to pay me to “advertise” my new song to the record-buying public?) • Some artists would like to earn money from sales of CDs, but are happy to let people freely broadcast or publically perform their songs and share them as MP3s. • Some artists don’t want any of their songs to be broadcast, copied, shared, ren
