Journal dwandy's Journal: KT Tunstall on Copyright
Scottish singer KT Tunstall, whose debut CD Eye to the Telescope is currently on the charts, insists she's not worried about file-sharing.
"No, not at all," she says. "I have to be totally honest... when I heard about all the downloading problems and when I really thought about it, the only people who suffer ultimately - you know, if everything falls to its knees - are people who can't sing or perform."
"It's the people who actually can't do their job who suffer because if you can't make your money from record sales... I mean, I just know now that no matter what happens - if I lose all my friends and family and the record company spontaneously combusts - I can go out there and take my guitar out and make enough money to have dinner. It's something you feel really grateful to be able to do."
That about sums it up: Artists with actual talent will still be able to make money without copyright, but we'll lose the talentless manufactured bands... seems like a good deal to me.