>Like all artists (including you, if you do any free-lance work) we have
>complete control: As the creators, either we keep full copyright (as
>U.S. law states), or we sell it (or parts of it) to the companies for whom
>we create.
>But, as for anything you do outside work ...
>>and as for my own stuff, well I
>> plan to artistic liscence that anyway.
>
>Make 'em pay for it. Not just the work, the *rights* to the work!
No. Artistic liscence. I use so many samples and allusions in my work
that I can not ethically state that no one else has the right to use my
work. Or view my work. Who has rights to multi-authored, sample pieces?
Who has rights to the web site. Those that authored the tools that make it
run, the tools that created it, the content running on it, the inspireation
for that work?
I would much rather live in a world free from control of information, where
I can use and abuse information as I see fit, and grant others that same
right, than have to worry about IP at every step along the way. Web based
work seem to resist IP by its very nature. Why fight.
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