CopyCamp | An unconference for artists about the Internet and the challenge to copyright
CopyCamp is a place to meet people making art and making waves, an opportunity to discover how the Internet can work for artists and fans, and a chance to debate the value(s) of copyright with some of the key players. It is an event in which participants drive the programming, and debates are genuine round-tables. There are no observers: everyone has something to offer and is expected to contribute.
Linda Medley’s “Castle Waiting” is a wonderful graphic novel. It looks like a hardback novel until you open in, when the gorgeous art and engaging characters threaten to wipe out your evening. It’s a feminist fairytale, a look at what happens after happily ever after, a multi-layered mediaeval soap opera with daemons, talking animals, and bearded nuns. The first third is the best version of “sleeping beauty” you’ll ever read. Then there’s Lady Jain’s story, which is the narrative and emotional heart of the series. The end of the book is a long but enjoyable diversion from the main story. Now the regular series is starting again we may find out more about some of the questions that aren’t answered in the graphic novel.
It’s page-turningly fantastic. Go and get a standing order for the regular series afterwards.
Here is the cover:
Here’s an interior page:
To some degree all these personæ are re-creations of the Pierrot figure, a disguised Gnosis in the form of parody. Bowie has repeatedly appeared on stage (and still stages) as the ‘Pierrot in Turquoise’, a sort of a Threepenny Pierrot (the colour turquoise connoting “the British symbol of everlastingness” as one of his early teachers gnomically recollected).
Moorcock’s “Cornelius Chronicles”, one of the few pieces of literature produced in England in the second half of the twentieth century, also treats life as a harlequinade. Amongst other things. I must post about Cornelius at some point.
Volunteerism
A licence that tries to support non-creative interests by adopting them as part of its terms is volunteerist. Anti-military and human-rights licences are volunteerist. This is a form of instrumentalism.
WMIMWYIM
“What’s mine is mine what’s yours is mine”. Licenses or contracts that privilege upstream users or project hosts over downstream users and contributors, usually financially but sometimes attributionally.
Exploitation
A project or license that tries to keep or accrue value for a privileged party is exploitative. Or iniquitous. Good examples of this are WMIMWYIM contracts on media hosting sites and the use of noncommercial licensing. This is a form of instrumentalism.
Given the feedback I have received I’d like to be able to replace Instrumentalism with Volunteerism and Exploitation, but I don’t think they quite divide the concept between them.
Further feedback gratefully received.
Welcome! This is the first post on the REMIXWORD Blog. This is an experiment in creativity, and I am very excited.
A few details to get out of the way first…
-All the content on this blog is original and created by yours truly, Mitch Featherston.
-All of the content on this blog is free.
-All content on this blog is covered under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 2.5 license.
-In time, there will be a wide range of content on this blog, including texts, photos, illustrations, procedural art, fractals, textures, abstract material, sounds, video, and much more!
The main reason this blog exists is to encourage creativity. I will not be accepting content or remixes from others on this site… I am a one-person operation, and I simply don’t have the time to clear rights or deal with such things. I encourage you to create your own blog, use any material you wish from this site, and make up your own material. REMIX!!!
FAAN is an online network, which uses a gift economy to connect artists and potential collectors. All of the artworks on view are available for adoption. This means acquiring an artwork without purchasing it, through an arrangement between the artist and collector. Our goal is to help increase and diversify the population of art owners and to offer artists new means for engaging their audience.
[…] in my view, any self-respecting artist should refuse to participate in any sharecropping mash-up. You did the work. You should own the rights to the work you did.
I have never heard of NC-SA either.
Boing Boing: 3D prints of World of Warcraft avatars
A World of Warcraft player has had her/his favorite character — a gnome — run off a Zcorp 3D printer.
Scary. And the technology is kewl too.