[Icommons] Aboriginal archive's new DRM: Cultural Solution?
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Tue Jan 29 15:09:22 EST 2008
joy.garnett at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Interesting conundrum.
A couple of the essays in the book "CODE: Collaborative Ownership and
the Digital Economy" (ed. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh) cover the intersection of
Western concepts of "Intellectual Property" and non-Western social
traditions. It's a very good book. I also recommend the "commons-law"
mailing list.
I don't see this as a conundrum, I see it as a negative effect of
technology. I don't think that enforcing class, tribal end gender
divisions through code is a good thing. It takes a heavy dose of
cultural relativism on behalf of other people to see it as a good thing.
But then I don't think enforcing bizarre over-reaching claims of
"property" through code is a good thing either. So perhaps this is a
useful reductio ad absurdum of the social and ethical claims of IP
maximalism as expressed through "normal" DRM. It's like Graham
Cleverly's "Managers and Magic", for IP. Only real.
- Rob.
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