I found Nabeels talk today really interesting. What especially caught my attention was the idea of the legislation that surrounds music production and distribution. He talked about the need for a radical change in the laws that allow or diss allow for creative re-use and re-mix and re-interpretation of others musical efforts. It seem that it is an almost impossible ask, with somthing like the music industry whose roots are tied so strongly in art and creativity - and so in this respect somthing quite impossible to tame due to the massive layering of interests within the creation of music - but also due to the fact that this creativity has been massivley glazed over with economic concerns - and so creating a whole other dimension of conflict and room for group interest. I dont personally know enough about how the economics of big music companys effect changes in law - but Im sure that in the UK and the US it would be extremely hard to make any radical kind of change within the legislation that exists.
What do other people think? Do you think its impossible to put a system that acutally works fairly and ethically onto somthing like the music industry which is so caught up in money, capatalism and ego in the first place?