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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 259441" data-attributes="member: 515">This is all just another example of what happens when Creativity becomes Big Business. The same thing happened with the motion picture industry, and the popular music industry.A movie comes out and sells a lot of tickets. All the movie studioes try to make a movie just like it. In fact, many movies like it. Until people stop going to see those movies. Then something fresh and new comes along, people go to see it, and the imitations start again.Or a new style of music gets popular. The music companies start looking for other artists who sound like that style. Or they get artists already on their rosters to change their style to sound like the new style. This goes on until people stop buying that style. And then a new style comes along, people start buying it, and the imitations start again, and the scouts are out looking for new artists playing that style.Anytime a business that sells something that is Creative is run by people who are not Creative, you have these types of conflicts. The movie studios were all started by people who made movies. Sometimes those people had no business sense, so they hired people to count the beans for them, but they maintained control of the business. But as the business got profitable, and the creative people in charge got old, the business got sold to a bigger business, a business run not by movie people but by business people.Same thing with the music companies. Founded by musicians, but later sold to companies run by people who didn't make music.</blockquote>

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