Cory Doctorow: Art for the 21st century

Here it is in black & white, folks:

“If your business model and your aesthetic effect in your literature and your work is intended not to be copied, you’re fundamentally not making art for the 21st century.” - Cory Doctorow from this interview on kottke.org.

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[...] “If your business model and your aesthetic effect in your literature and your work is intended not to be copied, you’re fundamentally not making art for the 21st century.” - SF author Cory Doctorow (hat tip: Matthew Forsythe) [...]

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Nov. 7, 2007: Things that scare me / November 7th, 2007, 4:37 am / #

Cory is speaking here in Berlin tomorrow, on the topic of Europe avoiding America’s copyright wars. Should be interesting.

Rob / November 7th, 2007, 8:06 am / #

Rob - oh you guys are on a first name basis now, huh?

matt / November 7th, 2007, 1:39 pm / #

Well put, however I would like to mention that I am making art for the 19th-century and doing jolly well at it. All those other guys are copying me and I didn’t have to lift a finger! Huzzah!

mahendra singh / November 7th, 2007, 5:38 pm / #

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