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‘Tis the season to be jolly – that is, if you’re Pamplamoose and just filmed advertisements for Hyundai. The duo has taken their signature YouTube style video, added a shiny car, and filmed holiday songs in their garage. It’s a tie between congratulating them for banking a big Christmas payday and wishing I could get my indie authenticity back.
Vormgevers, architecten, schrijvers, fotografen, webbouwers, App-programmeurs… Groningen stikt van de mensen met een open mind en herbergt talloze creatieven in verschillende disciplines. Die moesten maar eens samen een borrel drinken, vonden het NN Open, De Ondernemers en Lopend Vuur. We nodigen jou daarom graag uit om vrijdag 26 november as. tussen 17.00 en 19.00 uur langs te komen in het nieuwe ForumImages, Hereplein 7, Groningen.
Omdat alleen borrelen ook maar zowat is, bieden we tussen 18.00 en 18.20 uur de ruimte voor korte presentaties. Je zult onder andere wat horen en zien van Paashaat, een USVA videocollectief productie.
Short of this wildly unlikely regulation, full employment in the arts is a beautiful and improbable dream. Certainly, no copyright system can attain this. If copyright is to have winners and losers, then let’s start talking about who we want to see winning, and what victory should be.
In my world, copyright’s purpose is to encourage the widest participation in culture that we can manage – that is, it should be a system that encourages the most diverse set of creators, creating the most diverse set of works, to reach the most diverse audiences as is practical.
Rather than having the right to specify who may use your works, you merely get the right to get paid when the use takes place.
Now, on hearing this, you might be thinking: “Good God, that’s practically Stalinist! Why can’t a poor creator have the right to choose who can use her works?” Well, the reason is that creators (and, notably, their industrial investors) are notoriously resistant to new media. The composers damned the record companies as pirates; the record labels damned the radio for its piracy; broadcasters vilified the cable companies for taking their signals; cable companies fought the VCR for its recording “theft.” Big entertainment tried to kill FM radio, TV remote controls (which made it easy to switch away from adverts), jukeboxes, and so on, all the way back to the protestant reformation’s fight over who got to read the Bible.
So a balanced and evidence-based copyright policy is one that requires creators to show a need for protection, and also that the protection sought will deliver more benefit than the cost it implies.
