You can help composers, musicians, writers, visual artists and other Or is it rather, as it sees Prof
Joost Smiers: 'The big media companies cover the entire planet with satellite and cable networks.
But all of the information channels of the world to have sense only if one also owns the substantial part of the contents whose Copyright is the legal Form of ownership. At the time, we are witnessing a merciless struggle of the mergers in the field of culture, such as the AOL and Time Warner. This could lead in the near future, only a handful of companies will own the Intellectual rights to almost the entire past and future of artistic creation.
How Bill Gates and his company Corgis owner of the rights to five of the sixty-million images worldwide, of which. million are available online Smiets concludes that the once coherent concept, the author turns to the right, a set of instruments, with a few corporations control the intellectual property of the Public gain.
An effect of this monopolistic control structures, consists in the fact that the legal efforts of recyclers just about a few Stars to build up, in which they have invested large sums of money. Smiets want to abolish copyright laws and a System to replace that of the artistic concerns more into account. A System, which eliminates the monopoly culture of the culture industry.
