[LINK] The Creative Commons article

[Mark Hughes]

Personal Images.  Copyright.  Privacy.

Hmmmmmm, stir well, ferment - lets see now......


Celebrities are moving strongly to prohibit unauthorised use of their
images, voices, etc.  What if we hoi-polloi all take the same tack?

If my face and my voice print are copyright to me, as my work of art (and an
ongoing masterpiece, if I do say so myself :) ),  then can we not deal with
some privacy issues - e.g. phonetaps - by claiming infringement of
copyright?  And what about all those cameras in public places in the city?


If the world is going over the top on intellectual property protection,
perhaps we should be using intellectual property   as a weapon on our side
in the privacy battle.





Regards, Mark

Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
+61 4 1374 3959
effectivebusiness at applications.com.au



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From: link-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at anu.edu.au]On Behalf
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Sent: Saturday, 28 February 2004 9:26 AM
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Subject: [LINK] The Creative Commons article


Fwd: [highered_update] Higher Education Update - an EdNA Online
newsletter,  Issue 5 2004 ISSN 1449-0552, 20 February 2004

>The Creative Commons
>http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA401.htm
>'What if the law had said that you need someone's permission before taking
>their image?' So asked Lawrence Lessig, to draw our attention to what the
>consequences might have been for photography and film if they had been
>regulated as closely when they first emerged as the internet is today. The
>aim of Creative Commons is 'to build a layer of reasonable, flexible
>copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules'.
>spiked, February 2004

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