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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-08-28 23:02
Mark:
Yeah, I need to get off my butt on this one. FWIW, I contribute to the EFF and regulary send emails to my representatives and senators (though, granted, mostly form letters at this point) on a variety of issues. I don't think by any shot that I've done enough, but I have done something.
At the moment, I have the magical lousy crap excuse that my time is severely limited, what with a 40-hour non-music job, graduate school hunting, and writing a 15 minute piece for wind band that mixes styles of Ives, ice cream trucks, minimalism, and elementary school talent shows.
Ski:
I consider the work of an artist significantly different from that of a doctor. If a doctor performs liver surgery on a person and saves their life, they are compensated up front, or perhaps on a payment plan. Forty years after the doctor dies, should we expect the patient to write a check to him every time he has a beer?
My point is that they are fundamentally different services, and shouldn't be lumped together under the same analogies.
Creative works are unique. They are not likeliver surgery, a computer, a piece of toast, a massage, or an air conditioner. They are a wholly different beast for a number of reasons, including:
- They can be used just as well in 100 years as they can today. They do not deteriorate, with the exception that the media they are stored on deteriorates... but making a copy makes it all new again.
- After you've used them, you can use them again, indefinitely.
- If I make a copy and give one to another person, I still have mine as well, and all of it, just as functional as it was before I made a copy.
Therefore, it seems silly that we should treat them as just another commodity. How we treat them is up to us as a society, but it can be troublesome to lump them into the same category as other commodities.
The term "intellectual property" bothers me as well, because it suggests that it is a tangible thing that one person can have at a time.
Why an altruistic cause? I dunno. Perhaps because, when something is old enough, it seems reasonable to may people that it is considered an item of historical interest rather than creative profit. Perhaps for the same reason we have public libraries. Perhaps so that anyone, regardless of their situation, can have access to the collective knowledge of mankind, to learn from it, to build upon it.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Ski |
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Ski |
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Ski |
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EEBaum |
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Chauncey |
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pewd |
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Caco185 |
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Ski |
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Ed |
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EEBaum |
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DavidBlumberg |
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Ski |
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EEBaum |
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rgames |
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Ski |
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Ski |
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rgames |
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rgames |
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EEBaum |
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EEBaum |
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rgames |
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EEBaum |
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EEBaum |
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howarth |
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EEBaum |
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srattle |
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Ski |
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EEBaum |
2007-08-28 23:02 |
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Ski |
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EEBaum |
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