What makes you believe that returning to this historical norm is necessary?
Mostly the fact that television, film, and music capitalists were incentivized to essentially steal intellectual labor from creators in the same way that industrialists were stealing surplus labor value from factory workers.
It is the sole discretion of the artist how, when, where, and IF their art is consumed at all. If you didn’t create something you have legal or moral authority over how it is stored, displayed, interacted with, or commercialized. If you have a problem with how a particular artist does any one of those things, then the solution is to not consume their art, not demand that they adapt their creative process to accommodate your preferences.
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then (hypothetically, bear with me here), if by the hand of the free market and general consumer sentiment, the only successful video games were the ones that had reasonable end of life plans, and the one that didn’t faded out into irrelevancy, couldn’t get money since nobody bought them, etc, that would be OK by you, right?
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Why would I care?
If a thing stops being something I want to engage with, I stop engaging. Demanding that everything that has ever existed, must continue to exist in exactly the fashion of my preference would seem like a mental illness.
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because it establishes that the creator’s authority is not absolute and the consumer has quite a bit of sway in how products are created and commercialized. Unless you are one of such people who believe indirect coercion of the free market doesn’t count as coercion? If the creator (more or less) of a for-profit work must present their work in a specific way otherwise no-body will buy it, that is coercion and a slight to the creator’s authority, no?
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The creator can continue to produce their work in whatever way they want. Art does not require an observer to exist or be valuable.