paidContent:UK interviews Feargal Sharkey

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Sharkey played with The Undertones, of Teenage Kicks fame, and is now CEO of British Music Rights.

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Music

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• music
• britishmusirights
• piracy
• ipod
• business
• media
• londoncalling
• feargalsharkey
• theundertones
• undertones
• teenagekicks

[MikesDanceVids]

This man is a music legend he has a good heart!!

About time he recorded some more songs he was a catalyst for the 80,s sound.

[themadwoman1]

Everyone is entitled to be paid for their efforts of work and the performance of songs/music is a form of work so the artists are entitled to be paid for that.

How many of you would work for nothing?

[duqueblanc]

someone to somebody!!

[aindrereecesheerin]

Fergal rehearsed in my house in Barry Street Derry not long before he and his band were launched - Real intelligent arguments in this broadcast and very persuasive too. Hope you get Rights for Musicians and writers Fergal

[indydaisy1]

They need to sort a system out where the artist gets a taste and the public are willing to pay and make them feel better about themselves doing it right, you charge to much you LOSE.

[Slossius1983]

@tms6279 And in answer to your final question is yes, if I loved it that much I would do it for free, of course I would. The only things I would not do for free are things I don't value or don't like doing. I suspect Mr Sharkey is only in it for the money. He's hardly Beethoven! Mozart, Wagner and others all suffered financially but continued to produce great works because they are great creative geniuses.

Good businesses should adapt, not try to prosecute those who don't shower them in gold.

[Slossius1983]

@tms6279

1) You mean you're harming someone by performing an action that does not affect them at all, and is no different to not performing the action. What exactly IS the harm that is caused? Do they lose money? No. Are they in pain? No. I fail to see what effect they suffer from my action.

2) I deny that. It's a disanalogy.

3) My point is that we accept that consumption without paying is ok, so long as it is not downloading, during which something mystical happens and it magically becomes bad.

[tms6279]

1) You're harming the artist by denying them their rightful payment for their efforts.

2) P2P file sharing IS digital shoplifting.

3) Perhaps in your world each person would lend your novel to tens of thousands of other readers. In the real world that number is reduced to less than ten (rarely more than one).

I don't know what you do for a living but, if you love what you do and think it has a value to the public, would you work for free?

[Slossius1983]

@tms6279

1) How are you harming them?

2) We do not have the right to shoplift. Although, interestingly the artist actually WOULD get paid as the store would have to order more copies.

3) I would gain the same amount of money as if 100 people bought it and lent it to tens of thousands of people to read. Lending is legal, and yet you consume without paying. If I was a true artist, I should prefer my work to be appreciated by many without being paid, rather than just a few paying me.

[tms6279]

But aren't you harming the artist who has created something of value and deserves to get paid? Before digital downloading we had to buy CDs, tapes, vinyl albums at stores. Are you saying that we had/have the right to walk into Walmart and leave with any music we want for free? If you were to create something of value - a novel, perhaps - how would you feel if 100 people bought your book and millions of folks copied and read it with no royalty going to you?

[Slossius1983]

@tms6279 I don't do it for a living, I just cleaned it outside my house now, so that I am entitled to set up a toll booth for those who use it. After all, as @themadwoman1 says: "everyone is entitled to be paid for their efforts of work".

I don't want to rationalise theft, but I don't see what theft has to do with file-sharing. The artist suffers no actual loss. While I'd like good artists to get paid, that cannot justify imposing legal restrictions on other people who are harming nobody.

[tms6279]

@Slossius1983

If you clean the street for a living then, yes, you deserve to get paid. My guess, however, is that you're trying to rationalize the theft of a musician's hard work and art.