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28 March 2006
My most recent favorite inappropriately long and wordy comment on MeFi. I just don't want that one to get lost. It's tasty like Tube Meat.
It describes how I feel about intellectual property rather nicely.
The instant a work is published, it already is splitting off and propagating and reproducing and mutating - and being derived from by its very consumption.
But as a "work", the instant it is published it is already stale, history in the past.
And that "works" inherently can't be copied, because in creating the work, the creator evolves, preparing the creator for the next creation, which should surpass the previous creation.
And the futility of attempting to stifle and freeze creations and creativity in time, especially for disproportional profit and exploitation - but perhaps only if we do not limit or otherwise legislate the sources of inspiration and derivation.
It's a great comment. But still; when I write something for publication, if someone wants to republish it verbatim in another newspaper or magazine, they really need to cross my palm with silver. They're not remixing or being changed in the creation.