Comments on: What You Do Isn’t Worth Paying For: The Message Google Sends to Illustrators – Part 1 http://www.technologyinthearts.org/?p=1037 This discussion-based blog explores the intersection of arts management and online technology. Technology in the Arts is a service of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and Technology. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:56:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: druid http://www.technologyinthearts.org/?p=1037&cpage=1#comment-34038 druid Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:10:34 +0000 http://www.technologyinthearts.org/?p=1037#comment-34038 Google is a business. They're here to make money, not coddle your artistic ego. This is how a free market works. Google says this is what we want (design), and this is what we'll pay for it (nothing). They'll reap what they sow. If you don't like the terms of the sale, don't participate. Google is a business. They’re here to make money, not coddle your artistic ego.

This is how a free market works. Google says this is what we want (design), and this is what we’ll pay for it (nothing). They’ll reap what they sow. If you don’t like the terms of the sale, don’t participate.

]]> By: Zack Hayhurst http://www.technologyinthearts.org/?p=1037&cpage=1#comment-33281 Zack Hayhurst Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:27:33 +0000 http://www.technologyinthearts.org/?p=1037#comment-33281 I especially like the very last sentence here. "When Google thinks art isn’t worth paying for, it is little wonder that legislators across the country question the value of arts funding. " Very poignant, and very true. Organizations like Americans for the Arts and the NEA keep chanting the slogan: "arts equals jobs!" And then Google goes and treats freelance designers as if they were serfs. Google, these are artists are not beholdened to you. Its the same as with teachers. If no one respects your work, then the money will surely NOT follow. This move by Google only supports the notion that people who make art are doing it MERELY because they love it. Not because they depend on it to make a living. This in turn sends the message that arts=luxury=expendable in times of crisis. Shame on you Google. I especially like the very last sentence here.

“When Google thinks art isn’t worth paying for, it is little wonder that legislators across the country question the value of arts funding. ”

Very poignant, and very true. Organizations like Americans for the Arts and the NEA keep chanting the slogan: “arts equals jobs!” And then Google goes and treats freelance designers as if they were serfs. Google, these are artists are not beholdened to you.

Its the same as with teachers. If no one respects your work, then the money will surely NOT follow. This move by Google only supports the notion that people who make art are doing it MERELY because they love it. Not because they depend on it to make a living. This in turn sends the message that arts=luxury=expendable in times of crisis.

Shame on you Google.

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