Recently on mudd up! Jace named the top 10 reasons to sell out. That’s settled, we all agree we should take what we deserve.
But i’d like to finally sideswipe the ever widening discussion of rights. On The Wire stream the other day, i heard Steve Reich chatting about how licensing of work must be done strictly on a case by case basis…
And as a worker who makes his living through creative production, I am forced to agree. Still, my feeble attempts at following the legalitites in the ever-shifting planes of audio and video and print reproduction have encouraged my belief that something radical must be done to refigure the entire notion of property as it currently stands.
Is freedom = choice? Are property rights the solution?
What would 40 acres and a mule look like in the land of the downloadable streaming identity crisis?
A new publication merits note: Contested Commons, Trespassing Publics: A Public Record from the folks at sarai.net. I checked the heck out the audio of the presentations from the conference. Didn’t clarify, but did problematize. No conclusions here, but I’d love to bring up these problems in a more public way…
And for the record, my work is still for sale. An artist’s gotta eat somehow I guess.