I don't understand the concept of copyright. Atleast not in the work that I do. Absolutely everybody that I have met for any length of time, has contrinuted to who I am today and thereby the work that I am capable of doing and thereby any constructs or tools that my company uses, practices, implements.
It bothers me that a sense of belonging must be attached to the knowledge that one owns the rights over something. Why is it hard to feel that one can use something comfortably even when it is shared?
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I once thought that whoever uses something should be its owner. (I think that's known as 'userfruct')
However, I'd now say that the challenge lies in separating ownership from survival.
Would people really need to cling so hard to their ideas and "intellectual property" if they felt their material survival didn't depend on it?
This connection has gone to a new level in an age of the very elusive, yet massive-earning killer idea.
Copyright lives in the ego along with fear of survival. An illusion, for none of us ultimately survive.
How good would a payment system be that rewarded the betterment of humankind (now and after your little ego expires) over the individual?
I could not agree with you more Carl. I also cannot really see the point of copyright beyond the need to get business. Even then, I remain unconvinced.
At the end of the day, my company has to get business to pay the bills and wages...but also, at the end of the day... I want that every idea about Education that we have spreads as far as wide as possible..that as many children as possible benefit from wour experience.
At the end of the day, if someone claims credit for something even we cannot claim credit for, its s/he who has to live with their conscience, someone else's morality is not my problem.
Thank you for your thoughts. This is currently very large in my mind, as I learn to set up a business.
Copyright functions in the artistic community as a way of protecting commercial value, but even in that context it is a blunt instrument.
There are some new models emerging such as the creative commons licences that allow much more specific control over what is allowed to happen with "your" content. You can specify for instance that further use is allowed if it is for non-commercial purposes and whether attribution (to you) is required.
They have a lovely process they lead you through to help you decide on the best kind of licence for your work.
I think they are a positive organisation and that they are at least forcing these questions into the light.
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