Comments on: Towards a Paradigm of Potential http://www.gibburt.com/towards-a-paradigm-of-potential/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:24:01 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Philip Hölzenspies http://www.gibburt.com/towards-a-paradigm-of-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Philip Hölzenspies Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:32:51 +0000 http://www.gibburt.com/?p=71#comment-155 Kaspar, You're right about IP-arrangements and about this offensive 'stealing' notion. I'll add two quite indicative examples of Dutch IP agencies: The BUMA (roughly equivalent to the RIAA) offers musicians 'exploitation contracts'; i.e. the BUMA will collect all the musician's royalties and pay out at the end of the fiscal year. This is a nice service for musicians... on paper. Downside: The BUMA will collect *ALL* royalties, so if you've got such a contract and publish your own music on your own website, they will tell you to pay them for publishing protected works. The BREIN foundation (roughly equivalent to the MPAA) has to put its ugly mug on all DVDs that are released on the Dutch market (I almost typed "legally sold DVDs," but that plays into their idea that open global markets are for business-to-business only and that you, as a consumer, are not allowed to buy DVDs from an American web store). At some point, they stuck on this very aggressive (in terms of movement, flashing lights and sound) anti-piracy commercial. I go out and BUY a DVD, put it in my player and then... I get told off for piracy! Mind you; this clip was *unskippable*. The optimal comfort zone for me now is to buy a DVD, leave it in its wrapper and download the film so that I can watch it without being shouted at and being called a criminal. One wanders why one should still buy the DVD. Kaspar,

You’re right about IP-arrangements and about this offensive ’stealing’ notion. I’ll add two quite indicative examples of Dutch IP agencies:

The BUMA (roughly equivalent to the RIAA) offers musicians ‘exploitation contracts’; i.e. the BUMA will collect all the musician’s royalties and pay out at the end of the fiscal year. This is a nice service for musicians… on paper. Downside: The BUMA will collect *ALL* royalties, so if you’ve got such a contract and publish your own music on your own website, they will tell you to pay them for publishing protected works.

The BREIN foundation (roughly equivalent to the MPAA) has to put its ugly mug on all DVDs that are released on the Dutch market (I almost typed “legally sold DVDs,” but that plays into their idea that open global markets are for business-to-business only and that you, as a consumer, are not allowed to buy DVDs from an American web store). At some point, they stuck on this very aggressive (in terms of movement, flashing lights and sound) anti-piracy commercial. I go out and BUY a DVD, put it in my player and then… I get told off for piracy! Mind you; this clip was *unskippable*. The optimal comfort zone for me now is to buy a DVD, leave it in its wrapper and download the film so that I can watch it without being shouted at and being called a criminal. One wanders why one should still buy the DVD.

]]> By: Kaspar Kruger http://www.gibburt.com/towards-a-paradigm-of-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Kaspar Kruger Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:22:08 +0000 http://www.gibburt.com/?p=71#comment-154 In reponse to the first part: the current Intelectual Property protection arrangement are no doubt making money for the record company bosses but I find it to be both morally dubious (calling copying 'stealing' is ridicilous) and counter productive becauae a very small amount of the money you spend will end up in the artist's hand anyway. In reponse to the first part: the current Intelectual Property protection arrangement are no doubt making money for the record company bosses but I find it to be both morally dubious (calling copying ’stealing’ is ridicilous) and counter productive becauae a very small amount of the money you spend will end up in the artist’s hand anyway.

]]> By: Philip Hölzenspies http://www.gibburt.com/towards-a-paradigm-of-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Philip Hölzenspies Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:41:25 +0000 http://www.gibburt.com/?p=71#comment-149 As an addendum, for your consideration, Lawrence Lessig gave a TED-talk on how this occurred and was solved in the past: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html As an addendum, for your consideration, Lawrence Lessig gave a TED-talk on how this occurred and was solved in the past:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

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