Steve Jobs: Good Artists Copy Great Artists Steal

by Art Fag City on March 8, 2010 · 13 comments

In this early video making the Internet rounds, Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs likens Apple’s shameless stealing of “great” ideas to artistic practices. It’s a nice philosophy, though I’ll note the company only supports stealing as a creative end when there’s a demonstrable profit to be found. iTunes DRMs aren’t exactly facilitating sharing and I’m guessing the iPad won’t either.


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richard
that’s amusing as you know — however not amazing. it reminds me as to why i find new york such filth relative to ground zero still being a slosh pit….seeing people gifted the work of so many artists some of it not even required to “steal” and a gathering of morons i’ve had in my life still produce (or create) an absolutely ugly and pathetic monstrosity based in the every -ism of schism one could imagine. like madonna, they can’t airbrush their crap forever.
richard
that’s amusing as you know — however not amazing. it reminds me as to why i find new york such filth relative to ground zero still being a slosh pit….seeing people gifted the work of so many artists some of it not even required to “steal” and a gathering of morons i’ve had in my life still produce (or create) an absolutely ugly and pathetic monstrosity based in the every -ism of schism one could imagine. like madonna, they can’t airbrush their crap forever.
T
Jobs ‘stole’ that from Picasso. And iTunes is largely DRM free.
T
Jobs ‘stole’ that from Picasso. And iTunes is largely DRM free.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
Thanks for that update – I hadn’t realized itunes had made the switch (though really, the point still stands).
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
Thanks for that update – I hadn’t realized itunes had made the switch (though really, the point still stands).
http://justinsimoni.com Justin Simoni
It’s been over a year now for the DRM-free iTunes stuff
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/06itunes.html
I don’t understand your point thought – “The iPad won’t facilitate sharing”? Like, a book won’t facilitate sharing, because it doesn’t come with a photo copier. Wazzah?
http://justinsimoni.com Justin Simoni
It’s been over a year now for the DRM-free iTunes stuff
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/06itunes.html
I don’t understand your point thought – “The iPad won’t facilitate sharing”? Like, a book won’t facilitate sharing, because it doesn’t come with a photo copier. Wazzah?
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
Yeah, I saw that when I googled itunes and DRM.
The iPad isn’t just set up to sell books, but magazines too. That’s great – the publishing industry is dying and hopefully this will provide the incentive people need to pay for content – but it seems unlikely that we’ll be able to send links to articles and such to our friends since everything will be under pay walls.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
Yeah, I saw that when I googled itunes and DRM.
The iPad isn’t just set up to sell books, but magazines too. That’s great – the publishing industry is dying and hopefully this will provide the incentive people need to pay for content – but it seems unlikely that we’ll be able to send links to articles and such to our friends since everything will be under pay walls.
http://tommoody.us tom moody
Movies and TV shows bought from Apple are not DRM-free. And for tunes you bought under the DRM regime you can pay Apple a fee to “upgrade” to DRM-free. Fortunately there are still artistes out there finding ways around Steve Jobs, the former artiste turned would-be monopolist.
http://tommoody.us tom moody
Movies and TV shows bought from Apple are not DRM-free. And for tunes you bought under the DRM regime you can pay Apple a fee to “upgrade” to DRM-free. Fortunately there are still artistes out there finding ways around Steve Jobs, the former artiste turned would-be monopolist.