{"id":677,"date":"2013-12-03T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/12\/david-lowery-vs-silicon-valley.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:55:30","slug":"david-lowery-vs-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/12\/david-lowery-vs-silicon-valley.html","title":{"rendered":"David Lowery vs. Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAMPER Van Beethoven&#8217;s singer David Lowery has become the most ornery of those fighting for musician&#8217;s rights. He&#8217;s erupted over piracy, Spotify, lyric websites, and the battle between the surviving Beastie Boys (with the ghost of Adam Yauch) and GoldieBlox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FYfkQCKfK_g\/Up6urfRmqZI\/AAAAAAAACgE\/Wyose1pvgV8\/s1600\/David_Lowery_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FYfkQCKfK_g\/Up6urfRmqZI\/AAAAAAAACgE\/Wyose1pvgV8\/s320\/David_Lowery_03.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I speak to him for Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/12\/04\/david_lowery_silicon_valley_must_be_stopped_or_creativity_will_be_destroyed\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He makes a pretty good case for what&#8217;s wrong with Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, which leaves artists out of the revenue stream.<\/p>\n<p>(Lowery and his argument also make an appearance in my book <i>Creative Destruction<\/i>, which comes out next year.)<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-R8fbDpsyrZY\/Up9tmkaRphI\/AAAAAAAACgU\/sRosdgX68-4\/s1600\/Adam_Yauch_crop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-R8fbDpsyrZY\/Up9tmkaRphI\/AAAAAAAACgU\/sRosdgX68-4\/s1600\/Adam_Yauch_crop.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMPER Van Beethoven&#8217;s singer David Lowery has become the most ornery of those fighting for musician&#8217;s rights. He&#8217;s erupted over piracy, Spotify, lyric websites, and the battle between the surviving Beastie Boys (with the ghost of Adam Yauch) and GoldieBlox. I speak to him for Salon here. He makes a pretty good case for what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,40,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-downturn","9":"category-indie","10":"category-internet","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}