Libraries as Music Outlets
I wonder if the Music Business is overlooking a useful outlet?
For many years Public Libraries have provided Records, then Tapes, and now CD`s, for their customers to borrow. Libraries charge a small fee for this service, and from that charge a proportion of the money goes to the CD company and then on to the Artist, whose work has been borrowed.
Well it seems to me a completely viable thing to do - if Record Companies got together with the Public Library Service and agrred a way for Library customers to have copying rights to CD`s they borrow. And maybe for an extra charge, Libraries could themselves provide a copying service.
Most Music Outlets have gone from all but the largest towns and cities - so without any outlay on premises, suddenly the Music Business (which is always complaining about the problems it faces in this digital age), would have access to many thousands of outlets.
And the Public Library Service, which itself is suffering due to the current economic situation, would also benefit.
To me it looks like a win win proposition, and a virtuous circle to boot. After all Libraries are at the creative heart of a community so getting more people into them can only help toward increasing creativity, including the musical kind.
(Although I have worked in a library - for Somerset County Library Service for a year or so, in the mid 1980`s - and I am a lifelong Library user, my principal interest is in seeking ways that might help save a valuable community resource, in these straitened times
Thursday 18 November 2010
Monday 15 November 2010
Money Energy - Harmony Economics
Money Energy
When you work you expend energy.
In return for this expenditure of energy
You are paid money
Of that money
Some is taken for reasons of taxation
This is tax on energy
Like running on soft sand - is what it can feel like
When that energy used goes to the taxman
Depleted and defeated
The economy falters
The sands have swallowed
The dynamism of the people.
(A different angle on economics and the politics of labour)
To continue.
When a persons generator is spinning freely
And they are producing much Energy
Then a tax on that Energy
In it's aspect as Money
Will have no noticeable effect
On the energy being put in
So the generator keeps spinning
The worker keeps running.
Dynamic and happy
(Perhaps explained a bit clumsily? But seems to me the gist of the thing).
And for those who seek less labour more leisure
Then they can spin gently
And the earth may itself
Regenerate at it's own natural pace
As a harmony restored.
Life in balance.
- that natural accord.
(Here I am seeking a future where people live in harmony with themselves and the world - unrealistic? Praps, perhaps not. But seems worth mentioning)
When you work you expend energy.
In return for this expenditure of energy
You are paid money
Of that money
Some is taken for reasons of taxation
This is tax on energy
Like running on soft sand - is what it can feel like
When that energy used goes to the taxman
Depleted and defeated
The economy falters
The sands have swallowed
The dynamism of the people.
(A different angle on economics and the politics of labour)
To continue.
When a persons generator is spinning freely
And they are producing much Energy
Then a tax on that Energy
In it's aspect as Money
Will have no noticeable effect
On the energy being put in
So the generator keeps spinning
The worker keeps running.
Dynamic and happy
(Perhaps explained a bit clumsily? But seems to me the gist of the thing).
And for those who seek less labour more leisure
Then they can spin gently
And the earth may itself
Regenerate at it's own natural pace
As a harmony restored.
Life in balance.
- that natural accord.
(Here I am seeking a future where people live in harmony with themselves and the world - unrealistic? Praps, perhaps not. But seems worth mentioning)
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