Does "movies" have a future as an art form? (also: The future of Copyright?)

[T-Short]

tl;dr alert here, but my fave blogger Rasmus Fleischer just posted a follow-up article to his recent essay about the future of copyright (which is nice, so you should all read that if you haven't). The follow-up is entitled Movies: Major art or Minor art?.

What does Evilbore think? There is an interesting cross-section here, since the populace includes both avid downloaders, Blu-Ray collectors and filmmakers/writers.

…but what about movies? Sooner or later, any copyright discussion seems to gravitate towards that question. That’s not strange, as there are several good reasons to regard the future of movies as much more uncertain than the probably quite bright future of music.

Before proceeding to the usual evaluation of business models, however, we should halt for a while and re-think what we mean by “movies.” The comparison I just made between music and movies is highly problematic, in particular because music seems to be something of a generic human faculty, while moving pictures as an art form are not much older than a century.

[Mupepe]

i don't like this future the article speaks of

[disgruntled_jojo]

He's got some interesting points and I like the fact that he's advancing an agenda without trying to force a solution on the reader.  Overall a very interesting piece.

For what it's worth, I generally don't make early shifts to new paradigms.  New formats, sure (MP3, DVD, Blu-Ray, I was an early adopter for all of them) but when there is a sea change in how you acquire your entertainment, I prefer to take a watch-and-see attitude, unless jumping on board has a very minimal investment in time, money, and effort (such as P2P did for MP3s). 

Either way, it's a subject near my heart and one I often find myself discussing with people.  Interesting stuff.