So I was thinking earlier, what if the design world suddenly embraced Intellectual Rights the way massive corporations do? Imagine a design world where you had to pay for the ability to use Douglas Bowman’s Sliding Doors technique or Shaun Inman charged royalties for the usage of IFR?
Some of you just read that and thought “yes absolutely they should charge people for these things”. While that may or not be true the real question is what are marketing people doing reading this? Actually as I see it the reason they don’t is an inherent difference between a corporate point of view and an artistic point of view. The spread of new artistic styles are dependant on open source techniques and it’s a shame that the rest of the creation world can’t understand that sharing openly is better sometimes. Sadly that entire concept of open source is being squashed flat with every new “protective” law passed by the suits.
Not really a fully realized post but it was one of the ideas running through my head that needed to be let out. On a positive note we do have great organizations such as Creative Commons fighting the good fight.
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