Which picture best depicts Copyright? Vote in comments.
I’ll be asking this question tonight at this talk:
Questioning Copyright: Sharing or Stealing?
Date: 5/11/2015
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PMThis event will be at Pizza M, 208 West Main Street, downtown Urbana. Delicious snacks from Pizza M will be provided.
Description:Does copyright protect creative work? What impact does copyright have on censorship? And what would happen if we abolished copyright? Join us for a provocative conversation with two guests: artist and copyright abolitionist Nina Paley and UIUC law professor and activist Paul Heald.Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues and the short This Land Is Mine. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to joinQuestionCopyright.org as artist-in-residence, where she produced a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom called Minute Memes. As half of PaleGray Labs, she develops techniques to combine animation with her other passions of quilting and embroidery. Nina is a former syndicated cartoonist, a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, and currently making a new animated feature called Seder-Masochism.
Paul Heald lectures on patent, copyright and international intellectual property law around the world. He is the University of Illinois Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law and is currently a fellow and associated researcher at CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, based at the University of Glasgow. He’s also the author of a recently released mystery novel Death in Eden.
I like the cheerful copyright fairy, because she represents the promise rather than the reality. But her costume should be gold, too.
The copyright guy could be funny animated, but as a still image, he doesn’t say a lot to me. Maybe it’s because I think copyright fans are deluded rather than angry.
The sacred calf is nice, but it seems like Bible stories speak to fewer people these days. If you want a classic figure, I suggest King Midas.
b, hands down. It works not just as Biblical iconography, but from the whole Sacred Cow angle as well. And it’s classical art to boot. No competition.
B.
It gets at the ridiculousness of holding up copyright as:
* a fundamental right to
have control over the reuse of your workcensor other people* an economic fairy (A.) that automatically rewards every copyright holder (it’s never worked like that, since creative people still have to sell a product in a market system)
Copyright isn’t an evil monster (C.), it’s just a legal system that’s overestimated and overrated.
A: because A is kind of how I always pictured it.
So, you don’t mind other people selling your work on Amazon and elsewhere, even outselling you?
You can’t be that curious if you haven’t found the answer online. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Nina+Paley+Copyright