Sell Your Rights!
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So say SellYourRights founders Björn and Marc, together with Dominik, Michael and Roberto.
Their beliefs »»»
- The creators of digital content are one of the most valuable and critical assets a networked information society can have
- The creative people driving the digital media industry are to be appropriately rewarded
- The value of some digital content increases if it is reproduced, transformed or further developed into something new
- It’s impossible to efficiently control or monitor the usage of digital content (and that’s a good thing)
Their goals »»»
- Ensure appropriate revenue for the creative people behind music, software, film and literature\
- Enable the free and uncontrolled usage of digital content
Say the team members »»»
For creators
- Create your offer: Define the cash you need to release your products under creative commons license
- Engage your users: Spread your widget and collect payment promises from your fans throughout the web (e.g. facebook, myspace, your own website, )
- Set content free: If the cash you asked for has been collected you publish your work under Creative Commons license if not, not.
- Cash for you freedom for your fans
For users
- Check what’s new: Listen to samples, read the descriptions, watch the video. Check out what is offered wherever you find a widget.
- Pay what you want: Decide your price and get engaged. This is your payment promise. You only pay if the product is set free.
- Copy share remix: Be one of the first to get the product once it is free. Enjoy the digital freedom Creative Commons licenses enable.
- Freedom for you cash for your idol
And stay tuned.
(Cheers, Seth)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
September, 2009
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September 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am
I can tell they’re barking up the same tree as me, but they need to get their terminology a little straighter.
People cannot sell their rights, nor should they, for rights are inalienable. What they are referring to are privileges, artificial ‘rights’ created by legislation, such as patent and copyright. And those ‘legal rights’, privileges, are instruments of injustice. Frankly, those who trade in such ‘rights’ are trading in people’s liberty (qv slave traders).
There’s nothing wrong in artists selling their work, but to sell the public’s rights back to it isn’t really cricket – they should be given back.
SellYourRights.com may well not be intending to do quite what their domain name implies, but here’s to their better grasp of the concepts and language they’re dealing with. At least their heart’s in the right place.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Crosbie:
“They ought to get their terminology straight”.
Hmm. Have you ever read the Anarchy faq? They draw a — very useful — distinction between “property” and “possession”. (And no, I’m not in total agreement with them, but it’s a useful distinction.)
September 10th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Yes, natural IP is much closer to the sense of property as possession than property as title. The thing is, I’m trying to point out what IP should mean naturally, i.e. abolish the monopoly, not the language.
IP nihilism: no-one can own a poem, only the material comprising the copies of it.
IP naturalism: those who have copies of a poet’s poem own that poem in the copies within their private property (house, car, briefcase).
IP monopolism: IP naturalism+ a poet should be granted a transferable reproduction monopoly to encourage them to publish poetry.
IP maximalism: a poet, or his assigns, owns his poem in all representations throughout the universe, forever.
IP naturalism also has a rider – all those who are privy to IP are naturally at liberty to copy it. In other words, simply because a book of poetry is in your private property, that doesn’t mean your guests aren’t at liberty to make copies of the books you let them have access to. Everyone is at liberty to make copies of works they are privy to – it’s the works they aren’t privy to that they aren’t naturally at liberty to copy.
So, I hope you can see how my position (whilst still against the reproduction monopolies of copyright and patent) remains pro-IP despite being anti-monopoly. And therefore, how it is distinct from IP nihilism. However, the only people who are going to notice any practical difference between IP naturalism and IP nihilism are burglars and their victims.