great article about copyright

[michaelheap]

interesting article about copyright
http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml

[Kriel]

An interesting article, but unworkable unfortunately, as there's no way to determine "the net discounted value of the future stream of consumption services", except via the past sales of the artist. In which case, a new artist's work would be sold for a disproportionately low figure -- and given they can collect no royalties, they would never be compensated properly for their work. And an existing artist could easily turn out dross, and be paid a disproportionately high sum for it (not that they aren't already). And this is if the proposed system were working flawlessly...

And, uh, who is it again who is paying the artist... that was kinda unclear.

[michaelheap]

i totaly agree, but its interesting to see people trying to work out different ways of trying to sort some of this mess out

[Kriel]

It is good. And it does definitely need sorting out.

Sadly, no matter how exciting or breakthrough a new copyright theory is, I almost always come back to the realisation that the entire economic system would have to be re-engineered to ideally accomodate it. If only ... but unlikely to happen in my short lifetime (the way I party).

Lately I've been reading Paul Johnson's A History of the American People (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060930349/qid=1046177515/sr=8-9/ref=sr_8_9/002-8862994-5911211?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) (not that copyright is strictly an American issue) and have come to realise how DEEPLY entrenched in Euro-culture the current situation is -- in terms of "globalisation", capitalism and, indeed, intellectual property -- for better or worse.

I pay a lot of attention to Dr. Richard Barbrook's (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_12/barbrook/) developing theories on copyright and economics. Although Richard and I cheerfully disagree about almost everything, I have enormous respect for what he has written in the past, and the direction he's working in. I think he's closest to getting it right.

kriel (http://www.kriel.tv)
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[DNXR]

Originally posted by michaelheap
http://www.vjforums.com/avatar.php?userid=192&dateline=1042300443


...concerning copyrights...funny to see your avatar...:D


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[michaelheap]

im a friend of rich's he is a top bod, were planning to set him loose with a load of cash & see what he can come up with RE: copyright them lock him in a room with a bunch of lawyers & MP's and see what the result is.

and the avitar is a joke, origonaly designed to wind up *****

[Kriel]

Originally posted by michaelheap
...we're planning to set him loose with a load of cash & see what he can come up with RE: copyright them lock him in a room with a bunch of lawyers & MP's and see what the result is.

I would love to be a fly on the wall for that meeting!

[michaelheap]

might have to video it for posterity