Behind Technology: Sampling, Copyleft, Wikipedia, and Transformation of Authorship and Culture in Digital Media.
By SACHIKO HAYASHI Introduction In the digital environment where our intellectual and creative works are created and stored in unified digit format and can thereby be transferred or copied as 0-1 information, the ease of making digital duplicates quickly found its way into the sampling culture. Today the term “sampling” is identifiable with digital sampling. Another computer feature, namely the ease of updating web sites by erasing, rewriting or replacing its contents, resulted in fluid publishing, bringing collaborative authoring such as Wikipedia into its existence while making the Internet virtually a space for open creative collaboration. Composed as a free journey with its starting point in sampling, this essay attempts to provide a brief summary of several relevant issues. The first part examines the history of sampling, touching upon its relation to appropriation and postmodern criticism. The second part focuses on the idea of intellectual property and its opposing forces manifested in the free software movement, copyleft and open collaboration. The third and last part briefly states the new cultural environment of the web, returning to the sampling culture and its future. http://artcopyright.interartive.org/sachikohayashi/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
