Artists, the Internet and Intellectual Property

There is a great discussion about this topic going on over at Nicholas Carrs blog. Nick posted a short post in response to TechCrunch blogger Michael Arringtons comment, that Recorded music is nothing but marketing material to drive awareness of an artist. Youll see by his title that Nick completely disagrees. At this point, I do too. According to Arringtons comment, if the art that an artist makes is just marketing material to drive awareness to her, I wonder what exactly is the point of driving awareness to that person? I think that most artists would feel that their work is the manifestation of who they are as an artist…