Copyright and Thought Limitation
Copyright and Thought Limitation
Jewel from Nina Paley.
H/T Gideon Rosenblatt
Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt
Culture: the Real Importance of Copying
This is a wonderful talk by Nina Paley on the real importance of copying and the tremendous damage done by copyright restrictions. I'd never thought of it quite in these terms before, and I love the way she sees this.
Nestled in this gem of a talk is this excerpt on what's really going on:
We are information transmitters. Information enters through our senses, like our eyes and our ears and it exits through our expressions, like our voices, our writings, our drawings. And all this information, going through us, creates a living phenomenon called culture, and in order for culture to stay alive, we have to be open, transmitting and receiving information. I’ve depicted culture moving in a line here, but really it’s a network, like a neural network. And we are neurons in a great mind. In an individual mind, information flows from neuron to neuron and that creates a bigger phenomenon called thought and that creates a bigger phenomenon called mind. In the great mind, information moves form human to human, and that creates a greater phenomenon called art, and that creates a greater phenomenon called culture.
From that meta perspective, our puny laws and restrictions assume a small and mean perspective.
Thanks very much to Edward Morbius for flagging this TED Talk for me and again to Laura Gibbs for turning me on to Nina's work in the first place.
#culture #copyright #mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc&feature=share
Jewel from Nina Paley.
H/T Gideon Rosenblatt
Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt
Culture: the Real Importance of Copying
This is a wonderful talk by Nina Paley on the real importance of copying and the tremendous damage done by copyright restrictions. I'd never thought of it quite in these terms before, and I love the way she sees this.
Nestled in this gem of a talk is this excerpt on what's really going on:
We are information transmitters. Information enters through our senses, like our eyes and our ears and it exits through our expressions, like our voices, our writings, our drawings. And all this information, going through us, creates a living phenomenon called culture, and in order for culture to stay alive, we have to be open, transmitting and receiving information. I’ve depicted culture moving in a line here, but really it’s a network, like a neural network. And we are neurons in a great mind. In an individual mind, information flows from neuron to neuron and that creates a bigger phenomenon called thought and that creates a bigger phenomenon called mind. In the great mind, information moves form human to human, and that creates a greater phenomenon called art, and that creates a greater phenomenon called culture.
From that meta perspective, our puny laws and restrictions assume a small and mean perspective.
Thanks very much to Edward Morbius for flagging this TED Talk for me and again to Laura Gibbs for turning me on to Nina's work in the first place.
#culture #copyright #mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc&feature=share
Very interesting perspective on copyright. It is a #conversation we need to have Zara Altair Gideon Rosenblatt
ReplyDeletePeter Hatherley Do you mean a public conversation? Like an HOA?
ReplyDeleteGideon Rosenblatt what do you think?
Excellent topic for the times!!!
ReplyDeleteZara Altair
ReplyDeleteYou would have to consider the medium used into the equation.
An example is if your using Windows as a platform if you look at the terms Microsoft claims copyright on anything produced with the platform or it's software. Google probably has something similar to protect it's intellectual property. The extent of that I have not looked into. It's one of the main reasons I advocate the advancement of the OpenSource community.
BTW: excuse my rudely jumping into the conversation uninvited :)
Justin Case Public post. Jumping in expected. :)
ReplyDeleteThe creative license taken at the end of the talk was priceless ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Zara Altair. And yes, I think that that would be a remarkable topic. The key would be finding some folks who really know the topic, obviously. That's not me, but I know who to ask...
ReplyDeleteYes Gideon Rosenblatt we need experts in the area
ReplyDeleteLast time I was in front of a copyright/patent lawyer he wanted 7 figures smh
ReplyDeleteGideon Rosenblatt Off to a local event. I will private message later.
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