This is a great free report on the responses of artists to the internet and it's potential to help or damage their creative lives.
Pew Internet & American Life Project: Artists, Musicians and the Internet.
Across the board, among those who are both successful and struggling, the artists and musicians we surveyed are more likely to say that the internet has made it possible for them to make more money from their art than they are to say it has made it harder to protect their work from piracy or unlawful use.
