Lately Ive been seeing many of you posting a copy-and-paste declaration of your rights as creative artists and photographers in light of Facebooks new rules about copyright. Im sorry to tell you, but your approach is ill-fated, and a waste of time. That was yesterday. The IP game is entirely different now. Digital substrates have created a completely new environment for the distribution and compensation of creative work. For years Ive dealt with Intellectual Property Rights and court cases involving the plagiarism of art, having managed properties like Coca Cola, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin... Im also a software engineer, privileged to understand how things are tracked, and can assure you that none of these tactics will work anymore. Your work can no longer be controlled once it is digitally published. Sorry. My crusade is nascent, and lonely, but if youre interested, here is just one of about 12 articles (paraphrased) in a lengthy charter provisioning a new approach to the world of creative work with an emphasis on a radical form of the scarcity model. It begins with a definition of what ownership means in the 21st century and concludes with this paragraph: My originals are not copyrighted, nor is any product or process patented. Derivative products and subsidiary works may be manufactured and marketed independently without permission from, or compensation to, the artist or owners of the artists original works. Electronic image files of the work itself exist in the public domain from the date of publication and circulate royalty-free with unlimited geographic scope or time limit, meaning that everyone everywhere may at anytime use reproductions of my art unconditionally and without restriction, regardless of purpose, including commercial exploitation of any kind. Non-flash, natural-light image capture of my originals, by cameras of all types, is permitted, without limit, at all times, by anyone, anywhere. Permission to use, share, or post images of my art on the Internet is freely granted to everyone. Attribution (crediting the artist) is neither required nor expected. Everyone everywhere has unlimited rights to use any reproduction of my art under the most generous interpretations of open-source licensing and fair use doctrines. All may freely share, adapt, modify, change, edit, recompose, decompose, reverse engineer, sample, resample, deface, destroy, reconstruct, deconstruct, copy, sell, distribute, redistribute, or promote my images or any derivative thereof without asking permission or obtaining usage rights. Media professionals may liberally use my art in advertising or as content for publication, broadcast, narrowcast, stream, cable, satellite, syndication, or by any means available now or invented later. Anyone may teach from, profit from, even claim as their own, reproductions of my art, without penalty, payment, or threat of litigation, anywhere, now or at any time in the future.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:42:28 +0000
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