mediatrips.com

maybe i belong to the wrong online community but i keep thinking that media=
.artists would want to use the media "events" of our culture to critique th=
e culture that created them. maybe i'm wrong.

www.mediatrips.com is an ongoing project and my goal is … "to encourage m=
edia companies and content owners to offer alternative licenses to consumer=
s."


FOR EXAMPLE …
The Non-Commercial Distribution License ("NCDL")
The NCDL is an "alternative" license. It is a premium license for consumers=
that want to use the content they buy in new and creative ways. It gives m=
ore rights to the consumer. Content purchased with the NCDL is delivered in=
a non-encrypted format. The license grants the user the right to twist and=
manipulate the content any way they want. More imporantly, the license gra=
nts the consumer the right to distribute/display the new "Collective" or "D=
erivative" work.


Whether you agree or disagree … i always welcome a sincere critique of my=
ideas

best

david goldschmidt
www.mediatrips.com
www.personify.tv

Comments

, Rob Myers

On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 09:30AM, David Goldschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm sorry, I do respect the aim of advocating opening content and your site is cool.

>maybe i belong to the wrong online community but i keep thinking that media.artists would want to use the media "events" >of our culture to critique the culture that created them.

, David Goldschmidt

no sweat Rob

—-rob wrote—-
As my .sig used to say: "Smash global capitalism, spend less money."

I like that … As a buddhist, one of the principles I try to live by is to
… want or desire less stuff/things.

I'm very careful about what I desire/want.

best,

david goldschmidt
www.mediatrips.com


—– Original Message —–
From: "Rob Myers" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: mediatrips.com


> On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 09:30AM, David Goldschmidt
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, I do respect the aim of advocating opening content and your
site is cool.
>
> >maybe i belong to the wrong online community but i keep thinking that
media.artists would want to use the media "events" >of our culture to
critique the culture that created them. maybe i'm wrong.
>
> One of the (possible) problems with this is that the critique then becomes
framed in terms of the critiqued culture.
>
> "No Logo's" identification of pre-emptive ironisation reminds me of the
phenomena of buying conceptual art. Capital will commodify and appropriate
the products any line of resistence, indeed this is how it expands. As my
.sig used to say: "Smash global capitalism, spend less money."
>
> "No Logo" and "Adbusters" are both design bibles…
>
> >www.mediatrips.com is an ongoing project and my goal is … "to encourage
media companies and content owners to offer >alternative licenses to
consumers."
> >
> >FOR EXAMPLE …
> >
> >The Non-Commercial Distribution License ("NCDL")
>
> [Without wishing to troll, "NCDL" also stands for "National Canine Defence
League". -ing namespace pollution…]
>
> This is similar to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/
>
> With the exception that you have to pay to receive the media initially. So
maybe the CC sampling license will be a better fit when it comes out:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/3631
>
> Possibly you could pitch in on that project, too many licenses can be
confusing:
>
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
>
> IMHO lead by example:
>
> http://www.robmyers.org/open_content/
>
> - Rob.
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