Hi Smita & all,
I want to try and respond clearly to some of the questions you pose below...
>It’d be interesting to explore thoughts (and experiences) on IP
>and development of open models of writing and publishing; how does
>it hinder and can it help, ever?; the motivations behind the
>use/development of open-models and the value attributed to such
>use; role and meaning of collaborative authorship for the
>participants. While several points in relation to these have
>come up in a number of posts in the last two weeks, it’d be great
>to develop them a bit further!
Firstly, anyone and group or institution who decides to close down
possibilities of shared distribution, whether this be publishing, an
on-line community/platform, or shared files; are proposing a power shift
based on principles. This communicates to its users/community, its
consumers "we are not open we are closed". The idea that this action
creates quality due to proposed ideas in accordance to curation or
similar conceptions, are either not acknowledging, not listening or are
not aware or do not actually care; of the social disconnect and its
consequences when closing down a 'culturally free-zone'.
If we are discussing traditional journalism in the UK, most of the
individuals writing in these columns are either celebrities or ex oxford
and Cambridge students. This declares that class distinction, status and
privilege is the deciding factor in respect of who is worthy of
'official' respect and support amongst the ranks of news related
'printed & on-line media'. This spurious notion that (quality) selection
is objective and in the end creates a higher quality press is a myth, it
has more to do with upholding positions of power over others.
If we are to evolve beyond the limitations and the tyranny over
consciousness, it begins with suborning law or bending it in accordance
to our needs at the time. Because, as usual the elites are never ready
to accept the needs of others, only their own immediate needs. Hence the
constant building of stronger established frameworks and protocols in
order to make their positions less vulnerable, by only letting in
particular individuals into their fold that accept or become complicit
with 'upper' peer agreements which, strengthening the infrastructures of
these pantheons - in the Max Weber sense of the word.
This is why a blurring of what is deemed as 'legitimate' publishing has
to happen, so that we can all re-asses these matters on a more level
field, with the inclusion of publicly shared distribution models. Which
is why discussions such as this on Empyre are important.
In my next post to you and all, I will offer actual examples referring
some of the experiences and projects I have been involved in, as well as
sharing comparisons that aim to highlight hermetically sealed cultures
that act to close things of, relating to the very issues discussed above.
Wishing you well.
marc
Hello everyone!
A warm welcome to this week’s guests: Marc Garrett and Joss Hands.
Thanks to Simon, Penny, Tiziana, Dmitry, Salvatore and Adam as well
all other discussion contributors for their thought-provoking comments
in the last two weeks. I have, as a lurker, really enjoyed the
comments, examples and references.
My research interests are in exploring and investigating artists’ and
users’ perspectives on creation, dissemination and exploitation of new
forms of content and their relationship with authorship and copyright.
I’d like to focus this week’s discussion on intellectual property,
economics and open models of writing and publishing. Collaborative
authorship does not sit very well within the copyright framework
(Seville 2006) and open-source models focus on sustaining
collaborative production within the boundaries of existing IP regimes
(Biagioli 2011). It’d be interesting to explore thoughts (and
experiences) on IP and development of open models of writing and
publishing; how does it hinder and can it help, ever?; the motivations
behind the use/development of open-models and the value attributed to
such use; role and meaning of collaborative authorship for the
participants. While several points in relation to these have come up
in a number of posts in the last two weeks, it’d be great to develop
them a bit further!
Best,
Smita
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk
<mailto:si...@littlepig.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> Welcome to the third and last week of this discussion about open
source writing and publishing on empyre. Firstly I would like to thank
Adam Hyde, Salvatore Ianconesi, Penny Travlou, Tiziana Terranov and
Dmytri Kleiner for the dynamic discussion they have established over
the past two weeks, as well as all empyre members who have posted
emails to the thread. I hope everyone can remain engaged as we move
into the third week.
>
> To recap the theme: in a globalised and highly mediated context we
wish to focus empyre discussion on how writing and publishing are
currently evolving in the context of global networks. We hope to
engage a debate about open models of writing and publishing and gain
insight into how changes in notions and practices of authorship,
media, form, dissemination, intellectual property and economics affect
writing and publishing as well as the formation of the
reader/writerships, communities and the social engagement that must
flow from that activity. Specifically, we wish to look at examples of
open publishing, whether they be FLOSS manuals, copyLeft or
CopyFarLeft or other publication models, in order to look at new
methods for knowledge making and distribution. We also wish to
consider how communities of shared-value emerge through such
initiatives and how their members are able to identify themselves to
one another and others.
>
> This week's facilitator is Smita Kheria and our guests are Joss
Hands and Marc Garrett.
>
> Marc Garrett is an activist, artist, writer and co-director/founder
(with artist Ruth Catlow) of internet arts collective
http://www.furtherfield.org (since 96) and the Furtherfield Gallery &
social space in London. Through these platforms various contemporary
media arts exhibitions and projects are presented nationally and
internationally. Marc also hosts a weekly media arts radio programme
on Resonance FM, co-edited the publication "Artists Re: thinking
games" and is editing a new publication "Conversations As We Leave The
21st Century". He is currently undertaking a PhD at Birkbeck
University, London.
>
> Joss Hands is a lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University where he is
Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture
(ARCDigital). His research interests are at the intersection of
technology, new media, politics and critical theory. His focus has
been in two main areas. The role of technology in providing an arena
for the expression of dissent and the organisation of resistance
movements and the role of technology in more formal democratic
procedures, specifically the role of the Internet in contributing
towards the development of deliberative democracy. He has recently
completed a book on digital activism, "@ is for Activism: Dissent,
Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture", published by Pluto Press.
>
> Smita Kheria is a lawyer and lecturer in law at the University of
Edinburgh. Her focus of interest is intellectual property law and
issues around authorship, especially concerning artists' practices
with new media. Smita is an associate of SCRIPT: the AHRC Research
Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology and is
Supervising editor (Intellectual Property) for SCRIPT-ed, the journal
of Law, Technology & Society.
>
>
> best
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> Simon Biggs
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http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk
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University of Edinburgh
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http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/
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