I think the changes in medium are not insignificant, and in a sense crazy things are indeedy happening now that haven't happened before. The change in distribution format for creative works always has profound repercussions on the way that a work is thought of, how people relate to it, etc. (will not go off on the music topic here).
If my scholarly work gets misused, I can get into (an always entertaining genre to read) a flamewar in the letters pages of Current Musicology. As creative work isn't quite the same thing, authors don't have a similar area within which to respond--and I wonder how sympathetic the response from fans would ever be, anyways.
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Date: 2005-05-03 08:25 am (UTC)If my scholarly work gets misused, I can get into (an always entertaining genre to read) a flamewar in the letters pages of Current Musicology. As creative work isn't quite the same thing, authors don't have a similar area within which to respond--and I wonder how sympathetic the response from fans would ever be, anyways.