Semantic Wars and the Political Economy of Creativity

The battle for the institutional ecology of the digital environment is a semantic war. Some questions are:

a. what is creativity?
b. in how far is creative output analog to property?
c. what type of legal framework should govern the (re)usage of creative output?
d. what does piracy mean? what does file-sharing mean?
e. what alternative worlds are imaginable?
f. what are technological drivers shaping our world?
g. what trajectories and strategies exist?

Do watch Steal-this-Film Part I
and Part II

Check out the Swedish parliamentarians opinions and re-read Kevin Kelly’s classic from 1997 “new rules for the new economy.” And do not forget John Theranian’s article Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap

About Philipp

Philipp Müller works in the IT industry and is academic dean of the SMBS. Author of "Machiavelli.net". Proud father of three amazing children. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

11. January 2008 by Philipp
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