Yes, personally, I do think we should advocate for the complete abolition of copyright. This goes much further than Lessig's "I'd be happy with the IP regime we had when Nixon was president." However, we need to acknowledge that while copyright still exists, it is useful and productive to our cause to give artists and cultural workers options between "all rights reserved" and "I hereby introduce my work to the public domain". Furthermore, we need to think long and hard about workable incentive models for working artists in a copyright-free world. Unlike open source software developers, it is not necessarily tenable for artists to work as consultants for others' impelementations of their art.
I disagree strongly with the notion that artists' rights have no place in out platform - rather, we should balance "artists' rights" with "consumer rights", while minimizing or eliminating "publishers' rights". w/r/t this whole fc/cc dustup, I don't have a problem with the icon, don't see it from either side as an endorsement of the others' position or ideology, and don't see a conflict of interests. we've been sampled. :P peace, aphid On Feb 27, 002007, at 12:12 PM, Fred Benenson wrote: > > I'm not sure we can avoid it, but we can certainly try to find > common ground...so what does the rest of FC think, should we start > advocating for complete abolishment of copyright? How can we find > consensus and develop a real position, again? > > > F > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
