That is not enough for the Clueless. The Clueless want guarantees - guarantees of control and payment on their terms rather than the more uncertain terms of the market. The best publicized such attempt is that of record producers. The interests of artists and record companies are not congruent - the former ripped off the latter for generations. But like battered women fighting the cops for their men, some artists are now defending their masters' greed and attacking attempts to create different and more direct economic links between listeners and musicians.
Producers say they create tastes and create acts, thus they create value.
They create some value, but they're paid nearly all the value the industry creates. Like Stephen King , some musicians are now looking for ways to turn demos, community, online concerts and merchandise into an even-better revenue stream than what a record deal offers. Meanwhile by spreading fear, uncertainty, doubt, lobbyists and lawyers, record companies have fooled many into thinking they're defending artists rather than themselves, attacking piracy rather than the new market. That's not the question, Geraldo. It's whether artists will have choices and control over those payments, or whether their slavemasters in the music industry will.