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8 months ago

"Many people mistakenly think that open source projects are emergent, self-organized and democratic. The truth is just the opposite: most are run by a benevolent dictator or two. What makes successful open source projects is leadership, plain and simple. One or two people articulate a vision, start building towards it and bring others on board with specific tasks and permissions. The best projects are the ones with the best leaders. Social media, on the other hands, doesn’t exist for a shared purpose. It exists to serve the individual. We don’t tweet to built Twitter, we tweet to suit ourselves. We blog because we can, not because we have signed on to a blogging project. Seen this way, open source projects are like companies. Social media is like a country."

Chris Anderson @ Open source is a company; social media is a country | The Long Tail - Wired Blogs

tweeting is selfish.

8 months ago

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

more @ the Workbook Project » TCIBR podcast - RIP: A Remix Manifesto

new doc showing at SXSW about copyright vs. remixes and mashups.

"I have this suspicion that if I just show my work inside the traditional gallery system, I will be safer from litigation. But if I want to reach across the boundaries of the art world and blur the line between mass-media culture and fine art by posting my work on YouTube, I better watch out. It’s almost as if the law is barring me from pursuing hybridity."

Stacia Yeapanis @ Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Locating Fair Use in the Space Between Fandom and the Art World (Part One)

it is. and it’s stupid.

9 months ago

"Whenever we talk about a world without copyright, people chime in about how awful it would be because someone can just “take” someone else’s content and pretend it’s their own. However, that’s not nearly as easy as people make it out to be. … In many such cases, it won’t take people long to figure out where the content really originated from, and the end result is that the “copyist” (especially if it’s blatant, and they do little to improve the content) has their reputation slammed. And, since your reputation is a scarce good (often one of the most important in any business model), there is strong social pressure to stop any such copying."

Mike Masnick @ Social Pressure Can Solve The ‘Copying’ Problem Even Without Copyright | Techdirt

but what would all those lawyers do with their spare time?

1 year ago

"If no one is pirating it, it can’t be worth watching."

Jamie King - Steal this Film (I and II) @ SpringBoardMedia: Stealing Films to save filmmakers

yup.

Jamie King @ POWER TO THE PIXEL » JAMIE KING - Distribution Case Study: Steal This Film

indie distribution through “pirate” P2P networks. a case study.

1 year ago

A Shared Culture (via JustinG4000)

more @ Free culture movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

creative commons: a full on movement.

1 year ago

"A digital mashup is a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work. Digital text mashups, for example, appear by the thousands every day as users of blogs and online forums copy and paste digital text in juxtaposition to comment on topics of interest, while fan-created video/audio mashups juxtaposing commercially produced video clips with favorite pop songs constitute a major portion of YouTube content. Digital mashups represent a new phase in the re-use of existing works not so much conceptually as in ease of use."

Mashup (digital) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

this is a mashup.

1 year ago

"We live in a world where it is legal for a company to patent pigs, or any other living thing except for a full birth human being, but copying a CD you bought onto your hard drive is considered an infringement of someone else’s rights. A place where an average law abiding citizen could owe more than $12 million dollars in fines if they were sued every time they accidentally violated copyright law in a single day. A society where it’s ok for each of us to be hit with 5,000 advertising messages every 24 hours, usually without our permission, but creating a piece of art and placing it in public yourself without permission can land you in prison."

Matt Mason from The Pirate’s Dilemma | TorrentFreak

what is a pirate to do? lead the way.

2 years ago

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (via TEDtalksDirector)

regulation vs. innovation.

4 years ago

Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia (via TEDtalksDirector)

wikipedia rules all.

4 years ago

"Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. … This term is often contrasted with permission culture."

Remix culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

share, make it your own and improve it!

7 years ago

"In the social sciences, a gift economy (or gift culture) is a society where valuable goods and services are regularly given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards (i.e. there is no visible quid pro quo). Ideally, simultaneous or recurring giving serves to circulate and redistribute valuables within the community. The organization of a gift economy stands in contrast to a barter economy or a market economy. Informal custom governs exchanges, rather than an explicit exchange of goods or services for money or some other commodity."

Gift economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

utopia? look at what’s happening in your computer screen.

7 years ago

An introduction to the Creative Commons. (via awdeobot29)

more @ creativecommons.com

share!

7 years ago

"Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product’s source (goods and knowledge). Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open source model of operation and decision making allows concurrent input of different agendas, approaches and priorities, and differs from the more closed, centralized models of development."

Open source - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a state of mind as well?

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