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[Stilgherrian]

On 25/6/07 6:18 PM, "Janet Hawtin" <lucychili at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that
> - I used to be able to buy a book and exchange it with a friend. Now
> this is sometimes theft depending on the media format of the
> information.
> - I used to be able to buy a book and give it to a friend. Now this is
> sometimes theft depending on the media ULA.
> - Kids used to cut their fledgeling cartooning teeth on drawing daffy duck and
> other images in their cultural context and stick them on the fridge.
> Kids these days
> use youtube as the fridge and putting your own voice and first efforts
> into the mix is sometimes theft.
> - A photo of me is not necessarily my property
> - An ultrasound of me is not my property
> - An xray of me is not my property
> The distributed technologies we use now are a part of our social discourse.
> Copyright is theft of our right to participate. [snip]

I dunno that the last line there can be anything but a slogan. However you
do raise some very interesting examples.

An X-ray of you isn't your properly (currently), because the law gives
ownership of an image to the creator of the image, not the subjects who
appear in the image. In a medical context you (and I, for that matter) find
it annoying.

However, the flipside is that if a photographer takes a photo of a building
in a public place, do you want the building-owner to now own that photo?

Stil