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Subject: Creative Commons-Eyebeam Forum 2003 November 12-19

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  • From: tleeser AT calarts.edu
  • To: cc-eyebeam AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-eyebeam] Re: Welcome to Distributed Creativity
  • Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:51:07 -0500 (EST)


After reading the posts from this week regarding
Distributed Creativity and Copyright, I lean
towards reflecting on the multiple definitions of
the word "license."

The one definition that I find a bit off topic (I
apologize) but still extremely relevant is:

"license: deviation from fact, form, or rule by
an artist or writer for the sake of the effect
gained"

As an artist, the "deviating aspect" of digital
technology is not the construction of an
alternative set of boundaries and restrictions
to "corporate" control- based on a notion of a
licensed "commons," it's the technical and social
freedom to disassociate the creative process from
any economic incentive and gain.

The aim of many new media artists is to promote
an oppositional stance towards the dominant
narrative of mainstream corporate media. The
effect gained is the ability to promote an
alternative vision in response and opposition to
the rights and liablilites of traditional
commercial structures of expression. The
"reformatting" of the economics from the
corporate to a "commons" only shifts the means of
control from a priviliged few to the demands of
the majority. The truly radical act is to use
new technology to subvert the notion of control
itself, and allow "IP" to be a truly shared, free
and mutable source.




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