An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 6 - Money!
Money.
Ah, money.
I think I’m ready to think about how money plays into the copyright game.
After mulling over the issue, it became clear that the financial stability of creators and other members of the creative community (educators, disseminators, producers, historians, and a whole host of others I simply don’t have space to list) is a topic unto itself. Much of the recent discussion around copyright, TPMs/DRMs, file sharing (authorized and unauthorized) and other relationships between technology and the production and dissemination of art look at financial remuneration as a part of copyright rather than the whole of copyright. I would like to propose instead that we look at copyright as a part of the financial remuneration of creators. This, of course, will mean that things like moral rights, which are currently legislated as a subsection of the Copyright Act, may not belong there. I will later look at how these different creators’ rights fit together, and whether they should remain in the hierarchy presented by the current Copyright Act.
Table of contents for Deconstructing Copyright
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright - Part 1 - Intro
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 2 - Concept of copyright
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 3 - I.P.
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 4 - Creator’s Rights
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 5 - Copyright Act
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 6 - Money!
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Other Summaries
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 7 - Administration
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 8 - End Users
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 9 - User Rights
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 10 – Professional Creative Reuse
- An Experiment In Deconstructing Copyright – Part 11 – Mind-mapping
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By Julianna Yau
On January 2, 2008
At 6:43 am
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I think that you should look at this more as the ‘protection of the remuneration’ of the creator than of the remuneration itself. In its most basic of premises, copyright law was created to protect creators from having other people make money from their works without some legal agreement in place.
As an artist, if you want to give your property away for free that’s great, but minimally under copyright law, you should at least have someone sign something that says it’s your work. Whether any money changes hands is irrellevant.
Fran, that’s an excellent point! Thank you! I’ll definitely be incorporating that into future posts.