folder_open iconArtists Should Be Compensated For Their Work

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Posted by ninapaley | Posted in: Syndicated Articles | Comments(0) September 2009

pa href=/who#nina-paleyimg class=node-image src=/cm/images/nina-AIR-200x186.jpg alt=Nina Paley //a/p p class=intro-blurba href=http://ninapaley.com/ Nina Paley/a is the author of the freely-licensed hit animated film a href=http://sitasingstheblues.com/ Sita Sings the Blues/a, among many other things, and is a href=/who#artist-in-residence Artist in Residence/a at QuestionCopyright.org. She is also a committed Free Culture activist who writes frequently about copyright and how the a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permission_culture permission culture/a affects art and artists./p p style=clear: both;This phrase comes up in many discussions of copyright: emArtists should be compensated for their art./em It is assumed that a) Artists are inherently entitled to monetary compensation for their Art, and b) copyright is a mechanism for this compensation./p pI challenge both assumptions./p pOf course, what people actually say is usually emArtists should be compensated for their span style=text-decoration: underline;work/span/em. Below I'm going to distinguish between Art and Work, because confusing the two is exactly the problem./p blockquotepema) Artists are inherently entitled to monetary compensation for their Art./em/p /blockquote pI agree that artists are entitled to payment FOR THEIR WORK./p pWORK is labor exchanged for money. Employer and worker negotiate a fee, the labor is performed, and the worker is paid. Many artists are workers: they are waiters, baristas, truck drivers. They should be compensated for their work, and they are, which is why they work./p pSome artists perform a kind of skilled labor for money. This type of pre-negotiated labor is called a commission. Commissioned work is work, and artists are compensated for it, which is why artists take commissions./p pa href=http://questioncopyright.org/compensation target=_blankread more/a/p
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