CAT (VARC) PYQs

In the age of online subscription services, it is time to change our understanding of classic works of art being primarily immutable and easily available to the public.

Accepting retroactive changes to works of art is dangerous because it will encourage creators to not put enough effort into the original attempt, given that they can always edit or update their work later.

Works of art belong to the cultural commons and hence must remain available in perpetuity, irrespective of who pays for access to them.

As art is increasingly created, stored and distributed digitally, access to it is counter intuitively likely to be made more difficult by the rapid churn in technology and the whims of host platforms.