Treevibes on 27 Jul 2000 15:01:35 -0000 |
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<nettime> Re: (Fwd) Re: <.nettime> Terror in Tune Town |
Intellectual Property -- Valid for all People: Creative expression is a unique human ability and gift. The subject matters for creative expression are of course infinite on one hand, but on the other can be conceived of as variations on uniform eternal aspects of human condition. All That Is exists for everybody. Perception - how All That Is filters into individuals through layers of unique experience, personality and creative gifts - is where artistic distinctiveness begins to bud. That one is then moved to Express that perception creatively, is the next step. Whether a person is driven to produce and produce creative expressions of whatever fuels it, or a person spends a lifetime writing one book, or writes a single song and goes to work every day as an accountant, artistic product has a personal stamp on it that should rightfully be acknowledged in the scope of eternity as having been produced by that particular person at that point in time and space. A person took her perception of All That Is and did this with it as a creative outlet that now exists as something to experience in physical reality. The ownership of the product is ownership of an aspect of one's essential identity. Artistic product is a co-mingling of one's eternal self -- the spark that lights your body and your eyes, the part that intuits meaning and essence and creative extrapolation of what IS - with the physical self -- the voice -- that exists and feels and experiences and has physical abilities through which to express this co-mingling. We all have abilities, we all have and warrant rights to our creative, artistic products -- our "intellectual property." In addition, authorship of artistic product that is sought as entertainment warrants ownership not on the basis of pride or even acknowledgement of unique essence and creative capability, but for the service it provides. Entertainment improves the quality of life. Compensation for improving life for others seems a healthy way of perpetuating good things in life and the world in a natural give and take flow. Restated, the absence of compensation for things that improve the quality of life for so many people on the planet, seems like withholding nourishment for what nourishes us. It seems like a conscious effort to stifle or halt that which we would - I would hope - want to perpetuate in fuller and richer ways -- to bring us increased pleasure in a reciprocal feeding cycle that has been coined in other contexts as a "sustainable environment." A "sustainable environment" is one which supports itself as a whole. Thus, ecologically speaking, all the elements of food chains and nature cycles are present within a specified ecosystem; community-wise, the needs are met within a single community from food to services to entertainment to love to personal fulfillment and expression, for its successful peaceful existence and growth forever. Balance, equal ability to give and take from various arms of the community, and such harmonious abilities on all levels are necessary for the optimal prototype of a sustainable environment. RE: "My concern is that if you can't 'propertise' the information, then all power resides with whoever owns the vector. The pipe -- the part that is still physical and material property -- will be where the power lies. The pipe guys will be king. This surely is the other part of the corporate bet hedging that's been going on for 10 years now. Besides securing stocks and flows of information, the biggies have been suring up their grasp of the vectors. If copyright law is strong, they win because they won the content. If copyright law is weak, they win, because they own the vector." This is true of the corporate status quo (pipe ownership and copyright fencing) -- which, as we all know, is flailing. The Napster order of yesterday is a joke in the long run -- a bandaid on a leaking dam. The truth is that the pipe is not ownable anymore. Let's use our anger at the historical status quo, our self-recognition as voices in the spectrum of time and space, at uniform rights to unique creative output -- intellectual property - and its varying value and contribution to a better world (measured by how sought-after it is?) -- and peacefully and cheerfully evolve new modes of compensation and ownership and new technologies to defend these rights and reshape the scared corporate illusionary power. L # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net