Re: [-empyre-] Re: copyright

[John Klima <klima@echonyc.com>]

Melinda Rackham wrote:

> > as far as copyright, i'm very loose on the topic. i find the stack of
> > paperwork involved when i agree to show a work rather silly, i barely
> > bother to read it and sign without a care for the fine print. when
> 
> i find that scary  - eg siggraph almost seems to want to you to sign you
> life away ..
> also even GNU General Public License has copyrite clauses

i'm not scared. i've never read a clause that says i grant "exclusive
pertual rights of ownership" nor am i likely ever to. anyone who would
show "glasbead" or "ecosystm" or "earth" without asking me, is of no
importance in the first place. its not like gagosian is gonna download
glasbead, burn some cd's and start selling em for a trillion dollars. i
wish they would! and if i can't make much jingle from my work i doubt if
anyone else can with my work.
 
> > as far as my "estate" i could not care less, i'll be dead and i do not
> > intend to have heirs, at least none that i know of, yuk yuk.
> 
> yeah me neither.., thats why i want it now!!!

good point, though i assume you would know if you had any heirs :)

> also ive had lots of mail off-list from artists responding to my earlier
> post, but not wanting to do so publicly on the list.  Im wondering is
> net.art such a small and fledgling arena still that we are uncomfortable
> looking into, or exposing our own practices, cause as daniel points out its
> a systematic problem , affecting writers and curators as well.

well, judging from the mud slinging on rhizome today, it seems nobody is
particularly uncomfortable about exposing anything.

i just have to copy this here cause its just too ridiculous not to pass
around, from the mouth of the briliant net artist eryk salvagio:

"Christiane Paul is low balling you into little boxes
and laughing her way to the bank. She is helping to
co-opt the vitality of your work by giving you an 
agenda, and she is dismissing the work of legitimate
art, as opposed to the art-for-order made on demand
of galleries or for galleries instead of real life
art made for real people to communicate a message
or experience."

hehe

so glad you started empyre list

best,

j