If You Do Something Wrong...
It's said that everyone deserves a second chance. It's not that straight forward. There are so many crimes and wrong doings from Murder to fraud(and everything in between)
Different countries and the populations of those countries depending on their personal situation, religious view, culture will decide how forgiving they are and that includes the punishment metered out.
Times also change and so views expressed become outdated or neglected and are forgotten about and then in some societies views are forcibly censored and in the past books have been burned.
So in the case of music and literature there have been times where someone has committed some misdemeanor and the public either forgives or ostracises the public figure.
In doing so broadcasters then wonder because of the likely backlash whether to air music, films, books or programmes that feature these people.
Even if these programmes were made years ago and they are no longer given new work.
But sometimes the works were important and played a part in the history or culture of a country.
There are certain artists(I need not list them here)Authors etc...that I liked. But lets stick to music...for various reasons some music is no longer on radio anymore, there is no way that a record company would issue their works today. So that music is lost so unless you have old copies of these discs in your personal collection those tunes are lost for good. Or so I thought but maybe there is a way around this(but again you might say that this loophole should not exist either)because the artist is still earning money from the rights of the published works.
The loophole happens to be the internet and where you can download tracks to your own computer, you still may have to wrestle with the problem about an artist getting income but maybe their work should be kept separate from their crimes and after paying for their crime and being punished, you could argue that they have aright to earn money and if it's from their work at least it is not from perhaps charity or the benefit system.
I don't know if I have an answer, its one of those situations where I don't really think that there is an answer.
Different countries and the populations of those countries depending on their personal situation, religious view, culture will decide how forgiving they are and that includes the punishment metered out.
Times also change and so views expressed become outdated or neglected and are forgotten about and then in some societies views are forcibly censored and in the past books have been burned.
So in the case of music and literature there have been times where someone has committed some misdemeanor and the public either forgives or ostracises the public figure.
In doing so broadcasters then wonder because of the likely backlash whether to air music, films, books or programmes that feature these people.
Even if these programmes were made years ago and they are no longer given new work.
But sometimes the works were important and played a part in the history or culture of a country.
There are certain artists(I need not list them here)Authors etc...that I liked. But lets stick to music...for various reasons some music is no longer on radio anymore, there is no way that a record company would issue their works today. So that music is lost so unless you have old copies of these discs in your personal collection those tunes are lost for good. Or so I thought but maybe there is a way around this(but again you might say that this loophole should not exist either)because the artist is still earning money from the rights of the published works.
The loophole happens to be the internet and where you can download tracks to your own computer, you still may have to wrestle with the problem about an artist getting income but maybe their work should be kept separate from their crimes and after paying for their crime and being punished, you could argue that they have aright to earn money and if it's from their work at least it is not from perhaps charity or the benefit system.
I don't know if I have an answer, its one of those situations where I don't really think that there is an answer.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 3:05 pm
1 Comments:
I think that regarding the Internet you have given the correct answer in your final paragraph...the answer is there is no answer!
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