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Happy Culture Freedom Day!
Blug_fred writes "For the second edition, today is the time to celebrate Culture Freedom Day. While not as popular as HFD or SFD, celebrating Free Culture involves finding Free Culture artists, inviting them to your place and having them perform, display or talk about what their creation(s). Of course you can always simply project a couple of Free Culture movies and launch a discussion about their business models. Either way you can find all the happening for today here on the map and we sincerely hope there will be something of interest near you."
..in Turkmenistan. On the 25th it will be national carpet day! (also in Turkemanistan). Who makes up these special days anyway and why should I listen to them?
In an attempt to make free content more prevalent.
The rapper from Poor Righteous Teachers has his own day now?! I didn't think that many people even knew about them. ;)
Mr. Lessig and his followers do much to promote the public good and the quality of life. Copyright was invented to promote the public good by protecting the interests of creative people for a limited time. Now, in today's Market Society, (As opposed to Market Economy) this once-useful legal tool has been perverted to make money in perpetuity for property holders. These owners are rarely the creative people who developed the culture. For example: At the beginning of the 20th century a copyright lasted 14 years. The American songbook was remixed into jazz in the 1920s. The musicians had the right to do so because tunes from the sheet music craze a couple of decades before had devolved into the public domain. And from a little later? Just have a listen to Art Tatum's 1939 Tea for Two, which was written in the 1920s.
Jazz is an awesome cultural invention adored by fans all over the world. But, now, if you want to re-imagine or cover Sir Paul's Yesterday you still have to pay him (or somebody.) Hasn't society rewarded Mr. McCartney enough? It's time his music was kicked loose. Really. It is. And maybe if he was not still raking it in from work he did in his 20s he would be stimulated to do something new that was up to snuff. I am not a freetard. But, like Mr. Lessig, I hate to see society robbed of its heritage. And the culture held hostage by corporate interests.
A reasonable copyright term helped foster in the Jazz Age. And that is a beautiful thing. A thousand years from now someone will say: "America. Hmmm. Isn't that the place jazz was invented?" And twenty thousand years from now some being will say: "Earth? Hmmmm. Isn't that the place where Jazz was invented?" The point is that all we have left of any civilization is its culture. No one remembers the politicians and the rich guys. Just the artists they usually cheated.
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
... Day. ;)
Do I get free yogurt or not?
I'm likewise opposed to lengthy copyright terms, 14+14 should be plenty, and I understand how these longer terms came into being via corporate lobbying to protect the cost of the marketing applied to IP more than the IP itself, but couldn't an argument be made that artists are now forced to create entirely new non derivative works if they don't want to license the older ones? Does it stymie culture or encourage it?
couldn't an argument be made that artists are now forced to create entirely new non derivative works if they don't want to license the older ones?
Eventually authors will run out of distinct works to create. See "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson.
In the diatonic scale, there are seven distinct intervals between pitches, and rhythm can be approximated as either a short or long time from one note to the next. This leaves fourteen possibilities for each note but the last, as the last note has no next note to make an interval or duration meaningful, or 14^(n - 1) distinct melodies of length n. But a song was deemed an infringement for having matched eight notes (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music, the "My Sweet Lord" case). This sets n = 8, or 14^7 - 105 million distinct melodies. There are already far more people than that on this planet.
I'm settling in for a reality TV marathon.
After all, freedom of culture should include freedom from culture.
Copyright was invented to promote the public good by protecting the interests of creative people for a limited time.
No it wasn't. That was just the cover story. Apparently you fell for it.
but very much about Free Culture:
Carnival of Subculture
How was it the "cover story" if that's almost exactly how it's worded in the constitution of Slashdot's home country? Let's compare:
"To promote the public good by protecting the interests of creative people for a limited time" --bdwoolman
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" --Framers
prepared to be sued.
or Jazz that's the equivalent of musical masturbation isnt it?
Amen! Let's just hit the reset button and settle on 4 years for Copyright and Patent. If you haven't made your money by then, get off the pot. There's a world of innovative people out there who deserve a living. I mean really, what have you done for us today? I mean besides Patent/copy troll and waste the time of the tax dollar fueled court system that could otherwise be doing something to improve the world. 4 years, no more, no less. Period.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Christmas [has been] virally compromised with malware that is beginning to affect many other holidays.
So Jehovah's Witnesses were right about something for once?
So when do I get a day to be free from culture?
With terrorists like Obama and his Nazi thugs at IRS, DoD, Treasury and Justice running the US Government we can expect free detention, free torture and free death.
Oh, goody! Let's all invite pretentious hipsters in to our homes and work places for the heck of it.
"Well one good thing, anyway. At least the massive EMP from the penultimate nuclear holocaust didn't destroy the good Jazz because it was all on vinyl. We won't miss those smelly humans at all (And they tasted like dookey!) But, damn!, that Bill Evans cut was sublime. Slip out and spin it again, won't ya Babe? And then come back to the water and stroke my tentacle. Hmmmm?"
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
"If only the USSR had won the Cold War instead. What a tragedy for the human race!"
You think I'm joking - there has been a baffling increase in the amount of "Russia had it better" posts around here lately.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Please stop advocating causes you don't believe in.
Gun owners don't call it "gun culture" only haters call it that. Strange you don't believe in the Constitution, though. Is it that it's stopping you from doing what you want? That's how it was designed, assbag.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Free Culture = I want free shit.
Hasn't society rewarded Mr. McCartney enough?
And there it is...you have to much. You need to spread the wealth around and let us have free shit.
Who the fuck are you to say when Mr. McCartney has had enough? Who are you to want to benefit from other people's labors without compensation.
Fucking low life.
I bet you could link to some of those posts to add impact to your statement, if you wanted to.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Clearly.
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy