from the disappearing-culture dept
When folks converse of tradition, and preserving it, they normally imply the works of acknowledged creative giants like Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charlie Chaplin, and Miles Davis. They not often imply issues like reside streams of Korean pop music, generally called Ok-pop. And but Ok-pop is undoubtedly an expression – some would say a very vibrant expression – of a attribute trendy tradition. It is usually topic to copyright, which brings with it issues, as this story on Mashable reveals:
On Monday, Oct. 31, South Korean reside streaming app V Live notified customers that it’d be shutting down on Dec. 31, 2022. The closure isn’t a shock — in March, HYBE, proprietor of the competing app Weverse, introduced it had acquired V Live and meant to shut the app — however it’s a bummer for artists and followers. V Live is the largest-ever archive of live-streamed Ok-pop content material. The place will that content material reside on when the app goes darkish?
Owned by Naver, V Live launched in 2015 as a device for Korean artists to attach with followers. They did that primarily by reside streams, which have been then saved within the app as on-demand movies. As Ok-pop exploded in international reputation, V Live related these entertainers with a world viewers who watched them eat meals, rejoice birthdays, and produce music in actual time.
V Live is due to this fact an important instance of how artists can use the newest know-how to forge nearer relationships with their followers world wide – one thing that Walled Tradition has been advocating as a key component of discovering new methods to fund creativity.
In response to the Mashable article, a number of the recordings can be moved to Weverse’s personal platform. Particularly, recordings of artists who be part of Weverse earlier than V Live is shut down. Weverse has additionally mentioned that artists can obtain their V Live archives as a way to add them elsewhere. That’s all nicely and good, however it nonetheless leaves many musicians dealing with the potential of their streams disappearing endlessly, as a result of they’re unable to maneuver them to new websites for no matter cause.
One problem on this story is the focus of energy on this sector, a typical downside that bedevils many of the copyright world, as I focus on in Walled Tradition, the e book. The primary downside, although, is copyright itself. In a sane world, related cultural organisations would be capable of obtain all the streams on the V Live website as a matter of routine as a way to protect them for posterity, as vital cultural artefacts of the Ok-pop world. Copyright naturally forbids that, seeing preservation as infringement. As a end result, Ok-pop tradition is more likely to lose a few of its attribute moments, for no good cause, and to nobody’s profit.
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Filed Beneath: copyright, tradition, k-pop, v reside
Firms: naver, weverse