Roger
I agree
GO CC!
If you can't make a living off of it anyway, share it or give it away!
IP (Intellectual Property) laws are a new form of undead.
Stake their hearts with the creative commons licence.
meika
http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com
On 23/03/2007, at 21:52, Roger Day wrote:
> The trouble is in these days of copyright mania and Digital Rights
> Management (DRM), it's a hot topic, with a lot of money behind it from
> the music and film industries; the extensions of copyright and the US
> Digital Millenium Copyright Act were driven by Disney[1] and the music
> industry (with parallels in most Western countries, driven in part by
> trade agreements with the USA, in part by home-turf companies), but
> they directly affect everyone else. If we're not careful,
> "Intellectual Property Rights" and DRM will lock away our culture and
> lock-down the creative engine of borrowing completely. I don't think
> it's too strong to say that future artists will be *completely* at the
> mercy of corporations if this is allowed to happen; and we will be a
> lot poorer for it.
>
> Most of the above is done in the name of the artist - and that's you
> and me, I'm afraid even if, in reality, the publisher owns the
> copyright. Yes, I know people get very little out of royalties, and
> the contract is something which usually isn't negotiated in detail,
> and poets don't operate from a position of power in this relationship,
> and we tend to think that, as poetry doesn't make money, poetry comes
> under the radar. But times are changing, and I don't think that poetry
> publishing will be immune from the pressures of other publishing
> industries. To avert this, I'm advocating that poets try and retain
> the moral right to assert copyright over their own work, in a manner
> of their choosing:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/
>
> is one way.
>
> OK, so I'm now off my hobby horse ...
>
> Roger
>
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