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Karl Dietz writes:
dazu eine konkrete frage: wenn nun ein autor seine texte nicht per copyleft im netz stehen haben möchte. was dann?
schwierige Frage..... ich schrieb gerade an die Minciu sodas Liste I am just meditating over the question of art and copyright. A friend of mine has made a film on a beachvolleyball event, all in the copyright scene, with orderly quoted songs and the dues paid. So I wondered how he could have achieved that in a creative commons environment. I wanted to provoque him with the question what about copyleft. Several thoughts came up that I want to share: Coypleft in Art is rather a question of modification than improvement. That was, as much as I understood, Andrius' point that software wants to cluster, "something else" (*) not. (*) I am very careful about saying "content" here, because I think it is way to general. Lets talk about the opposite case of the one mentioned above. When I read the book "a pattern language" by Christopher Alexander that Andrius gave me, I found out that is content that wants to cluster. Patterns form a continuum and explain each other. The author himself works on a very general level and considers some of his own findings valuable, some less. He has even given hints in his work where and how he expects improvements. That is what Andrius has outlined (see below!) as the "commons" case. Now lets return to my friend and his beachvolleyball video which is more the "individuals" case. He has copyrighted it because he sees no need for improvement. It is a singular work. There is a mechanism for taking content out and qouting it and maybe paying fees, but it becomes increasingly painstaking to do so. With digital media and the exchange of samples improving, digital creativity could lead to a more and more elaborated meshwork of filaments of content. (this argument is on the base of my general remarks about "digital creativity" here: http://www.bookandsurf.at/html/digital_creativity.html) Now the main question is this: can we create a "work" and protect it against plagiarism for the time being and yet allow the elements of content that form new filaments of meaning to be free and autonomous, to be thrown in the cooking pot that we all use together? I do not see that the Creative Commons have provided for that case, but it would deserve closer attention. Maybe I am wrong; anyway: I see Andrius point as very valuable because he wants to build a bridge between the copyleft and the copyright world, without favoring the "media feudalist" approach of capitalizing on the posession of socalled Intellectual property. This opens a way to include many artists who nowadays even as cultural creatives would have enormous difficulties to open up to the Open Source movement. And its a shame to see them on the wrong side of the barricade. Just a few thoughts..... Franz minciu_sodas_en yahoogroups.com (Andrius Kulikauskas) writes:
At heart, the question is, When we work together, are we thinking of ourselves as a "set of individuals", or as a "commons"? Let us consider the two extremes. If, as an author, I think of myself as one individual among many, then my work which I share is my finished "product". My wishes will be definitive. I will be held accountable for my content. I will fix the boundaries of my work. I will share with those who share as I do. If my work has any value, then I will require compensation. The law will protect my rights as an individual, as affirmed by Copyright. Alternatively, as an author, I may think of myself as a participant of the commons. I share my "work-in-progress" so that I might involve others. My wishes defer to the commons, except where my content states clearly otherwise. I am not held accountable for my work, and I do not insist on attribution. My work has no set boundaries, and is modifiable. My work is for all, for those of every culture, not only those who share as I do. I give without expecting anything in return. Morality protects my work, and I declare it Public Domain.
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