Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:52 AM 7/19/98 -0400, you wrote: >music or art is used in this way it cheapens the original. It erodes the reputation >of the creator. Beethoven didn't write his Symphony No. 9 to sell telephone I suppose the comparison is apt. Though Beethoven sold the "Moonlight Sonata" (though he never named it that) as a pot boiler. He was a commercial composer of sorts. That's how he paid the bills. But the 9th Symphony - or my favorite since I've played it in public performance about 10 times in an orchestra - the Fifth are such cultural icons, I cringe when they are assimilated into advertising. The photo by Eisie we're talking about is a cultural icon, and such use reduces it to a trivial tool of hucksters. I don't like it, I don't care if it is legal. I remember my friends in college saying that "morals have no place in business." Great rationalization to kill people, and destroy their lives. "It's just business." That's all I'll say about this subject. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Diplomacy: Say nice doggie until you find a *BIG* stick