Mark Thomas talks sense about the Digital Economy Bill
You should really watch this. If for no other reason than to witness the Minister for Digital Britain actually say:
“If people can’t be paid for their creativity, they’re going to stop being creative.” (1m 57)
On the face of it, that’s an incredibly stupid thing to say, and is amazingly offensive to the vast majority of people in the world who are creative amateurs.
Note: I did not say “the vast amount of creative people in the world who are amateurs”, though this would also be true.
Most people in the world do creative things for no money. The vast majority of music in the world is made for cultural reasons that are not economic. To suggest that the only reason to be creative is with the expectation of payment is utterly offensive.
