Publishing Autonomy in the New Economy
Speaker: Christopher Adams
Taslima Nasrin’s photo on flickr found by Japanese magazine. How did they find the photo? I used a Creative Common license on the photo. By having the tag it allowed the Japanese magazine to find my photo and publish it.
This is what I like to call the triangularization of benefits, or win-win-win.
Who are the winners here? The Japanese magazine got the free photograph, Nasrin got a high quality photo of her in the magazine, and I got published as a photographer which has never happened before.
Isaac Mao: “Whenever you have the intention to creat, you will find it easier and have more critical ideas when you have the sharing process firmly in mind.”
Charles Dickens. He visited US and was upset that a lot of his books were pirated in the States, he went back to UK and wrote a book called American Notes and criticized piracy in the States. Then Americans pirated this book and sold 50,000 copies in one day.
Mark Twain: He spent a lot of time working on intellectual copyright. He was upset because Canadians were ripping off his books. He wanted to keep control of what he wrote so he would go to Canada to register his books. 1874, wrote a book called “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It”. In this story he really repeated word for word the lifestory of a slave. Mark Twain was not the creator of the story but he became the owner because he wrote it down.
Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons.
Remix Culture: One person creates something and another person remixes. Call and response.
Joi Ito. A book of his photographs. Freesouls.cc
Yiyantang translated essays in the photobook into Chinese. Chinese translations available on the web, even though the book is yet to be published. Ito tols me to go check out slideshare where the book was already available.
But instead of being angry, we are very happy about this. It helps us spread our message. We are creating the community around the idea, so that when the real book comes out people will already be familiar with what we are doing.
Lessig’s Hybrid Model of Creative Enterprise:
Models – Second Life, Flickr.
Swoon. Street artist. Compiling flickr photos taken by different photosgraphers of her work.
Four photographers documented each stage of Swoon’s work. How to catalogue this and publish this.
Second Life – Cao Fei’s RMB City. Using seconlife as a platform for her work, made a documentary using second life.
