NotesforworkshopLiang
guide to open conent licenses
y not copyright
most authors are not owners of their material, the company is(record comp, publishers etc) most musicians make their money from live not from royalties (they sell services) money not the only reason to be in cultural production
copyright begun as a system to force creativity and ensure works in public domain and f.e. allowed public libraries to exist as non commercial distribution channels for cultural production.
COPYRIGHT
origins in western society of 18ct, during Ressainance printers would print copies of books without permissions, emergence of artistic genius, copyright embedded in the cultural understanding of authorship
globalised capitalism- copyright centered in big media instead of authors and artists
changes in the law tried to cope with the blurring of boundaries of original and copies within digital media
authorship , originality and copyright was of a litle relevance to cultural and artistic production. see folktales,folk songs, as collective anonymous creations in the pub. domain.Variations are encouraged as part of the tradition
DISNEY founded much of its wealth in folktales like snowwhite, taked them out of the public domain and made them proprietary by copyrighting material.
Homers epics and 1001 nights narrated versions allover with no original written version existed
Until 20 th century and music industry copyright didnt play a role to music./ Bachs Concerto in D major Bwv 1972 is a re-orchestration of Vivaldis ninth movement of L' estro armonika.
not in visual arts, rennaisance collective workshop paintings, rembrant and rubens artists internet, risk of copyright infreegment. kurt schwitters bank logo appropriation but Kieron Dwyer..starbucks
Internet and pcs closed the gaps for media consumers to be media producers, copyright against this creativity
COPYLEFT
roots in free sofware Linux, GNU, now approaches all kind of media
open content model
copyright now= increase years, extend to other media like software, put more rights
FLOSS
COPYrights= reproduction, adaption, distribution, performance, display
notion of originality in the labour process different
even if im ok with my file beeing downloaded and used , the one whos doing it is infreeging my copyrights, rule of exclusion
licere-license-permission, should only allow more
software restrictions are harder
copyleft licences work within the legal framework , they dont circumvent the copyr.law you would be sewed again
GPU GPL freedoms= users should be allowed to run the software foranyreason, be able to examine the sofware, freely modify it,give copies, freely distribute (*ensure public domain status. derivative works creation)
free refers not to pricing but to freedom
heart of free software a radical reworking of the very idea of the USer, from passive consumer to user producer User producer speaks in the digital experience and the idea of people to become artists and producers.
colaborative production than isolated producxtion
history of cultural production = history of collaborative cp