Another glaring example of hunger for control is the consolidation of images for copyright in recent years. It used to be fairly easy to just pick up a book of photographs and marvel at the contents. There was a mass amount of images in the public domain, or that had copyrights held by people that didn't mind other people actually LOOKING at their work. However, as copyright has been extended and overvalued, ever larger numbers of images fall under corporate copyrights, especially that of Corbis, which controls a substantial percentage of images. Additionally, one sees less and less publications with just plain photographs - by this I mean landscapes, or people no one knows - just any captured moment. Instead there is online hosting, where firms can deface the images for download with a large transparent web address or what-have-you adorning the picture. It matters not what you were going to do with it, just the fact that you want to see it at all. The fights go far beyond music.
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