Nelson Pavlosky wrote: > Cain M Norris wrote: >> (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life >> of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific >> advancement and its benefits. >> >> >> I.e. art should not be the domain of a government vetted elite. >> > > I find it interesting to consider how these human rights would be > different if you replaced "government" with "corporations" wherever you > found it in the text. In this case, we don't really have a > government-vetted elite in the United States (except perhaps in the most > indirect way), but we are in danger of having a corporation-vetted > elite... and that's what I think free culture is fighting against.
The essential difference, of course, is that we can fight corporations without bullets. In the market, we can win by doing better, and lobbying the government to facilitate that. When the government itself holds the power to determine the culture, we have no hope. (Particularly true in these days of mass culture, more than the writers of the UDHR could ever have anticipated.) > > ~Nelson~ -C > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
