Consider: copyright, patents and trademarks are not about creating exclusivity, perpetual ownership or unassailable rights to an idea, creative work or process.
Rather they are about giving a creator a limited opportunity to benefit from their work. A work that is derived by individual(s) from within their communities.
You write a book, derived from your experiences with in your community, who really created the work? Â You, your muse or your community? Your community at large has given you a limited copyright to exclusively benefit from your effort, after which time your work will return to the common domain. Then others can benefit, create, extend, build upon, mashup and generally be creative upon the foundations that you were able to also be creative upon.
You can therefore see how this same principle applies, to a song, pictures, film, drugs, processes or ideas. This is the under laying founding principle of all copyright and patent law. That it has been twisted from this foundation is as a result of lawyers, executives and often missed named producers, altogether whom produce little, wear suits, bind up creativity, steal the art and parasitize the artist.
Thank God for the internet, where ideas are asserting their natural inclination for freedom, where artists can get rewarded for their effort and individuals can seek out what resonates with them. Art being more than sound and sights, the art of programming grows with free exchange, open source. Information, Wikipedia. Hardware, cnc and 3d printing. This is just the top of the iceberg.
A few of things are needed:
- Become a true fan.
- Become a contributed.
- Become a creator.
- Become a user.
My green card arrived this last week! What a two year journey. I am thinking that I want to write what it took to get where we are today, but at the moment the last six weeks have been full of getting used to living in Hawaii, working at the University of the Nations here, working on the FARM that is, and seeing how the business will roll with me not being in New Zealand.
