Why don’t more innovative ideas have huge REMIX THIS buttons?
A: I think it is because it all because we are all playing the copyright-brand-registeredtradmark lottery. You can win if you don't play. Your chances at the jackpot are astronomically low so I say, "Don't play that fucking game." It is for the 'commons illiterate'.
Why isn’t there more of this?
A: When the system is sick, no one is whole.
We celebrate this with family trees.
Can't argue with the humanoid brand though, can you.
If your seeds find root, your audience will find you and support you.
And what if they don't? Is Doctorow a closet Darwinist here? This smacks of the phrase, "If you so smart, why ain't you rich?" Or modified here:
It puts faith in the notion of something will be planted somewhere, and the world will continue.
Reminds me of the novel, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn where he talks about givers and takers.
If I didn’t want that to happen or unfold that way, I probably should have kept the idea to myself or tried to sell it with licensing restrictions — a phrase that gives me pause even as I write it.
In connected learning, as we connect we learn. The network is the way we learn and we learn together. Learning is by definition a commons, shared and unbranded. What we create together WE own together with all the rights and duties attached to that knowledge and learning.
It’s not just a question of a single item
At some point we have to acknowledge that all creation arises from culture and zeitgeist in part. What percentage of this new creation that is owed to culture and what percentage is new thinking by an artist in that culture has yet to be decided, but I think it is inarguable that everything we create arises 100% from one person. How much of Walt Disney's fortune is due to the public domain stories of the Brothers Grimm? You cannot argue 0%.