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CCR 747 ::: S13

Tuesday, March 26, 13
John Perry Barlow




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The Economy of Ideas
                                (1994)




Tuesday, March 26, 13
The enigma is this: If our property can be
                infinitely reproduced and instantaneously
                distributed all over the planet without cost,
                without our knowledge, without its even
                leaving our possession, how can we protect
                it? How are we going to get paid for the
                work we do with our minds? And, if we can't
                get paid, what will assure the continued
                creation and distribution of such work?




Tuesday, March 26, 13
ideas vs expression



Tuesday, March 26, 13
That is, when the primary articles of commerce in a
                society look so much like speech as to be
                indistinguishable from it, and when the traditional
                methods of protecting their ownership have become
                ineffectual, attempting to fix the problem with broader
                and more vigorous enforcement will inevitably threaten
                freedom of speech. The greatest constraint on your
                future liberties may come not from government but
                from corporate legal departments laboring to protect
                by force what can no longer be protected by practical
                efficiency or general social consent.



Tuesday, March 26, 13
Information is an activity.
                Information is a life form.
                Information is a relationship.




Tuesday, March 26, 13
Tuesday, March 26, 13
Can information want to be
                free?




Tuesday, March 26, 13
Information wants a beer.


Tuesday, March 26, 13
Information wants a hug.

Tuesday, March 26, 13
Familiarity has more
                         value than scarcity.


Tuesday, March 26, 13
A Declaration of the
                        Independence of Cyberspace
                                   (1996)




Tuesday, March 26, 13
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought
     itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our
     communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and
     nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
     We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or
     prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or
     station of birth.
     We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his
     or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being
     coerced into silence or conformity.
     Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement,
     and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and
     there is no matter here.

Tuesday, March 26, 13
spaceless place
                        intangible property
                        infinite replicability



Tuesday, March 26, 13
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate
  themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim
  to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would
  declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than
  pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be
  reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global
  conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to
  accomplish.




Tuesday, March 26, 13
The Next Economy of Ideas
                         (2000)



Tuesday, March 26, 13
social capital



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All these examples point to the same conclusion:
                Noncommercial distribution of information increases
                the sale of commercial information. Abundance breeds
                abundance.

                This is precisely contrary to what happens in a physical
                economy. When you're selling nouns, there is an
                undeniable relationship between scarcity and value. But
                in an economy of verbs, the inverse applies. There is a
                relationship between familiarity and value. For ideas,
                fame is fortune. And nothing makes you famous faster
                than an audience willing to distribute your work for
                free. ... (1 of 2)


Tuesday, March 26, 13
I enjoy a similar benefit in my current incarnation. I'm
                paid reasonably well to write, despite the fact that I put
                most of my work on the Net before it can be
                published. But I'm paid a lot more to speak, and still
                more to consult, since my real value lies in something
                that can't be stolen from me - my point of view. A
                unique and passionate viewpoint is more valuable in a
                conversation than the one-way broadcast of words. And
                the more my words self-replicate on the Net, the more
                I can charge for symmetrical interaction.




Tuesday, March 26, 13
Theresa:
   ... thinking about the academic author in this no-man's land, "a
   world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded
   by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth"....is
   there such a thing as an academic author in cyberspace and, in
   saying that, what might happen to the cultural capital of the
   academic author writing in cyberspace work? We talked a bit in
   seminar about how the academic author writing in cyberspace
   might not gain much cultural capital for that work in the
   workings of academia, but I think here I am more so talking
   about how the audience might be leveled in terms of cultural
   capital in cyberspace and then if/how that makes this space
   more unappealing for the academic author....does it and should
   it?

Tuesday, March 26, 13
Convenience is another important factor in the future
                compensation of creation. The reason video didn't kill
                the movie star is that it's simply more convenient to
                rent a video than to copy one. Software is easy to copy,
                of course, but software piracy hasn't impoverished Bill
                Gates. Why? Because in the long run it's more
                convenient to enter into a relationship with Microsoft if
                you hope to use its products in an ongoing way. It's
                certainly easier to get technical support if you have a
                real serial number when you call. And that serial
                number is not a thing. It's a contract. It is the symbol of
                a relationship.


Tuesday, March 26, 13
I imagine actual storytelling making a comeback. Storytelling, unlike
              the one-way, asymmetrical thing that goes by that name in
              Hollywood, is highly participatory. Instead of "the viewer" sitting
              there, mouth slack with one hand on a Bud while the TV blows
              poisonous electronics at him, I imagine people actually engaged in
              the process, and quite willing to pay for it.

              This doesn't require much imagination, since it's what a good
              public speaker encourages now. The best of them don't talk at the
              audience, but with them, creating a sanctuary of permission where
              something is actually happening. Right now this has to happen in
              meatspace, but the immense popularity of chat rooms among the
              young natives of cyberspace presages richer electronic zones
              where all the senses are engaged. People will pay to be in those
              places - and people who are good at making them exciting will be
              paid a lot for their conversational skills.


Tuesday, March 26, 13
Lawrence Lessig



                        



Tuesday, March 26, 13
Currently at Harvard:
              Director of the Edmond S. Safra Center for Ethics
              Roy L. Furman Professor of Law

              Previously at Stanford Law School.

              And previously-previously at Harvard, partly as the
              founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and
              Society.




Tuesday, March 26, 13
Seth:
     Playing the reluctant sophist, Lessig floats a few possible defenses
     of “piracy” in the strong sense of illegally copying someone else’s
     intellectual property for profit:
     1. America used to allow the pirating of works that had been
     copyrighted overseas.
     2. It doesn’t harm the industry as much as they claim because
     people (especially poorer foreigners) who illegally buy CDs or DVDs
     in a copy shop would not have actually purchased a full-price legal
     copy through Amazon or in a Barnes and Nobles’.
     3. Piracy, in some cases, benefits the owner of the copyright by
     giving the illegal purchaser a stake in purchasing legal copies in the
     future. Individuals who pirate copies of Microsoft become, ipso
     facto, Microsoft users, and this can only be a good thing for
     Microsoft in the long run. (Not everything the pirater wants will be
     available in a copy shop; she becomes used to using Microsoft;
Tuesday, March 26, 13
Lessig rejects all of these justifications for IP
                piracy because such piracy “doesn’t transform the
                content it steals; it doesn’t transform the market it
                competes in. It merely gives someone access to
                something that the law says he should not
                have” (66).




Tuesday, March 26, 13
Who is a pirate?

                   Under what conditions
                    does piracy happen?

Tuesday, March 26, 13
theft
                        distribution channels


Tuesday, March 26, 13
artificial scarcity



Tuesday, March 26, 13
Tuesday, March 26, 13
What does this mean
                              for us?


Tuesday, March 26, 13
Theresa:

            Nonetheless, because of this personal question, I also
            find it useful how Lessig describes why creators might
            want to give up total control of their work (p. 284)--for
            instance, "to better spread their content" (offer a
            sample), and to "express to others the importance of
            balance in this debate" (285). But, again, I guess I am still
            thinking about what this all means for me if I see myself
            as an author, and how much control I am expecting to
            exert over my work...why...and if/how do my reasons/
            feelings resonate with both the promotion of a cultural
            commons and exclusive ownership of "intellectual
            property"....what reason maybe are in need of
            more self-critique?
Tuesday, March 26, 13
Neil Young:
                              “File sharing is the
                                      new radio.”
                “File sharing is the new    - Neil Young



                radio.”
Tuesday, March 26, 13
Tuesday, March 26, 13

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Authorship: Copyleft Basics

  • 1. CCR 747 ::: S13 Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 6. The Economy of Ideas (1994) Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 7. The enigma is this: If our property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds? And, if we can't get paid, what will assure the continued creation and distribution of such work? Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 9. That is, when the primary articles of commerce in a society look so much like speech as to be indistinguishable from it, and when the traditional methods of protecting their ownership have become ineffectual, attempting to fix the problem with broader and more vigorous enforcement will inevitably threaten freedom of speech. The greatest constraint on your future liberties may come not from government but from corporate legal departments laboring to protect by force what can no longer be protected by practical efficiency or general social consent. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 10. Information is an activity. Information is a life form. Information is a relationship. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 12. Can information want to be free? Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 13. Information wants a beer. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 14. Information wants a hug. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 15. Familiarity has more value than scarcity. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 16. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996) Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 17. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 18. spaceless place intangible property infinite replicability Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 19. Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 20. The Next Economy of Ideas (2000) Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 22. All these examples point to the same conclusion: Noncommercial distribution of information increases the sale of commercial information. Abundance breeds abundance. This is precisely contrary to what happens in a physical economy. When you're selling nouns, there is an undeniable relationship between scarcity and value. But in an economy of verbs, the inverse applies. There is a relationship between familiarity and value. For ideas, fame is fortune. And nothing makes you famous faster than an audience willing to distribute your work for free. ... (1 of 2) Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 23. I enjoy a similar benefit in my current incarnation. I'm paid reasonably well to write, despite the fact that I put most of my work on the Net before it can be published. But I'm paid a lot more to speak, and still more to consult, since my real value lies in something that can't be stolen from me - my point of view. A unique and passionate viewpoint is more valuable in a conversation than the one-way broadcast of words. And the more my words self-replicate on the Net, the more I can charge for symmetrical interaction. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 24. Theresa: ... thinking about the academic author in this no-man's land, "a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth"....is there such a thing as an academic author in cyberspace and, in saying that, what might happen to the cultural capital of the academic author writing in cyberspace work? We talked a bit in seminar about how the academic author writing in cyberspace might not gain much cultural capital for that work in the workings of academia, but I think here I am more so talking about how the audience might be leveled in terms of cultural capital in cyberspace and then if/how that makes this space more unappealing for the academic author....does it and should it? Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 25. Convenience is another important factor in the future compensation of creation. The reason video didn't kill the movie star is that it's simply more convenient to rent a video than to copy one. Software is easy to copy, of course, but software piracy hasn't impoverished Bill Gates. Why? Because in the long run it's more convenient to enter into a relationship with Microsoft if you hope to use its products in an ongoing way. It's certainly easier to get technical support if you have a real serial number when you call. And that serial number is not a thing. It's a contract. It is the symbol of a relationship. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 26. I imagine actual storytelling making a comeback. Storytelling, unlike the one-way, asymmetrical thing that goes by that name in Hollywood, is highly participatory. Instead of "the viewer" sitting there, mouth slack with one hand on a Bud while the TV blows poisonous electronics at him, I imagine people actually engaged in the process, and quite willing to pay for it. This doesn't require much imagination, since it's what a good public speaker encourages now. The best of them don't talk at the audience, but with them, creating a sanctuary of permission where something is actually happening. Right now this has to happen in meatspace, but the immense popularity of chat rooms among the young natives of cyberspace presages richer electronic zones where all the senses are engaged. People will pay to be in those places - and people who are good at making them exciting will be paid a lot for their conversational skills. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 27. Lawrence Lessig Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 28. Currently at Harvard: Director of the Edmond S. Safra Center for Ethics Roy L. Furman Professor of Law Previously at Stanford Law School. And previously-previously at Harvard, partly as the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 29. Seth: Playing the reluctant sophist, Lessig floats a few possible defenses of “piracy” in the strong sense of illegally copying someone else’s intellectual property for profit: 1. America used to allow the pirating of works that had been copyrighted overseas. 2. It doesn’t harm the industry as much as they claim because people (especially poorer foreigners) who illegally buy CDs or DVDs in a copy shop would not have actually purchased a full-price legal copy through Amazon or in a Barnes and Nobles’. 3. Piracy, in some cases, benefits the owner of the copyright by giving the illegal purchaser a stake in purchasing legal copies in the future. Individuals who pirate copies of Microsoft become, ipso facto, Microsoft users, and this can only be a good thing for Microsoft in the long run. (Not everything the pirater wants will be available in a copy shop; she becomes used to using Microsoft; Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 30. Lessig rejects all of these justifications for IP piracy because such piracy “doesn’t transform the content it steals; it doesn’t transform the market it competes in. It merely gives someone access to something that the law says he should not have” (66). Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 31. Who is a pirate? Under what conditions does piracy happen? Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 32. theft distribution channels Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 35. What does this mean for us? Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 36. Theresa: Nonetheless, because of this personal question, I also find it useful how Lessig describes why creators might want to give up total control of their work (p. 284)--for instance, "to better spread their content" (offer a sample), and to "express to others the importance of balance in this debate" (285). But, again, I guess I am still thinking about what this all means for me if I see myself as an author, and how much control I am expecting to exert over my work...why...and if/how do my reasons/ feelings resonate with both the promotion of a cultural commons and exclusive ownership of "intellectual property"....what reason maybe are in need of more self-critique? Tuesday, March 26, 13
  • 37. Neil Young: “File sharing is the new radio.” “File sharing is the new - Neil Young radio.” Tuesday, March 26, 13