Hi Rob, excellent points! I also found this article on the differences between open source and open culture, by Felix Stalder really helpful. It makes some useful distinctions between the cultures and contexts of programmers and artists and how this impacts on their approaches to openness and related tings.
cheers Ruth http://publication.nodel.org/On-the-Differences On 24 Jul 2007, at 13:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.metamute.org/en/Copyfarleft-and-Copyjustright Mute have been excellent at publishing articles that constructively question received wisdom from free software, free culture and their opponents but I found that this article wasn't based on a good understanding of the issues. Like Lessig on a bad day, it accepts the starving artist lone genius mythology peddled by the RIAA and tries to protect artists from economic loss in the face of copyleft. This is a pre-Napster, pre-MySpace worldview that doesn't understand the economics of the music industry or the sociology of creativity. This is compounded by a failure to see the economic irony of copyleft, or how copyleft prevents alienation of labour value. And by ignoring other authors writings on the property question and IP; notably Stallman's "Why Software Should Not Have Owners" which would undermine its opening claims, and Lessig's writing on rent-seeking which would make some of its claims seem less novel. It's an interesting read but deeply flawed. I recommend the following books: "Free Software, Free Society" - Richard Stallman "Free Culture" - Lawrence Lessig "A Hacker Manifesto" Mackenzie Wark And the Mute issue "Beneath The Knowledge Commons". All are available in print or online. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
