If money were not the major incentive for doing anything, we wouldn't have to
worry about 'intellectual property'. Ideas and creative products would be shared
with delight because it could only lead to more creativity and the production of
more ideas.
Selma Singer
r h wrote:
> Good point Selma,
>
> To this point I would add a beautiful computer software that cannot be
> protected or a scientific formula that is copywrited only in one country.
> The issues of Intellectual Capital are covered in the works of Keith Maskus.
> The book is "Intellectual Prorperty rights in the Global Economy" Pub.
> Institute for International Economics and some other works of his on the
> Internet under his name. He teaches at the Univ. of Colorado and is state
> of the art on this issue. Another would be Richard Caves of Harvard who
> has addressed the same issues under "Creative Industries, Contacts between
> Art and Commerce" Harvard U. Press
>
> Brad this has gone a lot beyond the general statements you are making.
> What was a problem with the work of the Arts is now, in the Information Era,
> a problem of almost all Informational Products. In the past you could
> escape the issues because it was not a factory, retail or a school but today
> the issues that have plagued arts economics since Adam Smith and John Stuart
> Mill are now a huge problem for creativity in the TNC economy. Not a bad
> idea for a serious future of work list to contemplate IMHO.
>
> Ray Evans Harrell
> Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc.
> New York City
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Selma Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Charles Brass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Who pays, who benefits?
>
> > Would a beautiful painting be considered a 'new idea"? How about a
> beautiful
> > rendition of some kind of music or a poem or a beautifully cleaned home or
> how
> > about a new recipe for bread? What about the development of a person who
> is
> > able to radiate a kind of energy that brings out the best in people around
> > her/him
> >
> > Are the energies that go into these kinds of products (?) to be considered
> > work?
> >
> > I refer people once again to the Boston Globe article about the women
> > economists who are trying to redefine the very basis of economics in terms
> of
> > both the work to be done and the reasons people do it.
> >
> > Selma Singer
> >
> >
> >
> > Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
> >
> > > Selma Singer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I simply cannot understand why people confuse equality and sameness.
> Will
> > > > someone try to explain to me how allowing people equal opportunity to
> > > > develop their uniqueness will, ipso facto, result in everyone being
> the
> > > > same?
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > I would once again encourage anyone with good library resources to
> > > read the eloquent and magisterial essay:
> > >
> > > Szczepanski, J. (1981). Individuality and society.
> > > Impact of science on society, 31(4), 461-466.
> > >
> > > Szczepanski distinguishes between:
> > >
> > > (1) "individualism" which
> > > he associates with competition between persons to each
> > > grab as big a piece of the existing pie as they can, and
> > >
> > > (2) "individuality" which he associates with having a
> > > new idea. A new idea is something which is absolutely
> > > unique, by definition, since it cannot be found anywhere
> > > that already exists (if it could, it wouldn't be *new*).
> > > A new idea makes me different without taking anything
> > > away from anyone else.
> > > And a new idea can, as a miracle of loaves and fishes,
> > > create new pies, so that all can have more.
> > >
> > > Szczepanski concludes his essay by expressing the
> > > hope that individuality shall flourish among us, and
> > > quotes Tertullian: "Credo quia absurdum"
> > >
> > > +\brad mccormick
> > >
> > > --
> > > Let your light so shine before men,
> > > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
> > >
> > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
> > >
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