cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm also unconvinced with the camera analogy. It's not like photographers went out and started photographing all the existing artists' works and passed it off as a service. Camera's were a new technology and did displace illustrators (not just portraitists) over time, but they were still operated by humans and required real effort to go off and compose and take new pictures.