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The director of Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley, had to pay $50,000 to use old songs in her animation movie. She then put the movie online for free and turned herself into a free-culture activist. Composer Jaron Lanier was a digital pioneer in the '90s, but in his new book he claims that open-source is destroying creativity and fostering vicious behavior. They join us to debate the pros and cons of free love in art-making.

Paley's credo is that profit can be earned from clever merchandising rather than copyrighted sales of an artist's work. Do away with copyrights, which have "far too little perks for an artist today" , she says. "Artists are gagged by the dictates of labels, publishers and distributors"

Check out the full article:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/music/The-burden-of-lifting-/articleshow/5355549.cms


Part 1/10 on YouTube: