Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[Anatoly Volynets <av AT total-knowledge.com>]

Wow, it is about full month I was remembering to answer!

I am not much concerned with mind sets. It is not if I consider this 
subject unimportant, but it is just not that subject I am thinking about 
here.

My point was about working social systems. What works for what? Really? I 
don't care about feelings, impressions and speculations (meaning primarily 
those ones of crappyrights enthusiasts). This is one of the questions I 
have been preoccupied with for a long time.

In our case: I stress that open licensing feeds an author. Why? Because 
open licensing for creative work corresponds to its nature. I scrutinized 
the issue in Open Studios monthly News Letter and other texts, which are 
currently being assembled in a book.

Again, my point is that open licensing feeds creators, no matter what is 
their mind set.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, tom poe wrote:

: Hi, Anatoly:  Very good points, you make.  However, I think you'll find
: the paper emphasizes the for-profit mind set as distinct from the
: non-profit mind set, rather than a proprietary business strategy as
: opposed to a non-profit business strategy.  Of course, as you so nicely
: point out, non-profits, today, and Open Studios, in particular, are
: increasingly dependent on pursuing business strategies that lead to self
: sufficiency, rather than focusing on grants and disposable income
: donations, which are both shrinking.
: Tom
: 
: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:30, Anatoly Volynets wrote:
: > 
: > The real opposition is "proprietary" content vs. open content, but not 
: > for-profit vs. open one. Even more so, open content is to bring more 
: > profits than proprietary one ( unless "content provider" is a monopoly).
: > 
: > For example, Open Studios is going to sell a book which supposed to be 
: > open licensed and at the same time is supposed to bring in money. Or 
: > another example - OSS brings in profits to many. I have thought that this 
: > is one of our major points to stress: open license has to bring profits 
to 
: > the author of a talented work.
: > 
: > It is redundant mistake unfortunately accepted as an axiom by virtually 
: > all that copyright is to provide "reward" to an author. Copyright 
: > comprises attempt to impose ownership on creative works, which cannot be 
: > owned by their very nature. This is why copyright does not work as it 
: > supposed to. In reality copyright was designed to strip and control 
: > authors. This function has been successfully implemented.
: > 
: > Openness of a content is to reward authors, to bring them real profits. 
: > See detailed analyses in "3 Models" at culturedialogue.org/texts.
: > -Anatoly
: > 
: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, tom poe wrote:
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: > : Open Studios is proud to announce it managed to stumble along and get a
: > : paper submitted to the Axmedis Conference for 2005.  You can view the
: > : presentation at:
: > : http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/php/crossmedia.php 
: > : Tom
: > : P.S.  Did I mention I really hate deadlines?  :)
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