Drazen Pantic on 16 Feb 2001 03:30:45 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Usenet archives sold, whay about README! ? |
> Instead of looking back, we may as well raise the *future* issue of the > nettime archive. Who owns it? What will happen if someone suddenly starts > selling it to a museum or library, or as a commodity, selling it as a DVD? That is a very good point. Also what about derivatives of nettime, like README!? Recently, preparing a course about technology and NGOs, I was to include README! in the course reader. Checked on the Amazon, and on the address http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570270899/qid%3D919885952/sr%3 D1-2/107-1550648-2181301 found this description: ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge by Josephine Bosme, Nettime Obviously I do not have any problems with Nettime credited for the book, but what about the other name? I do not see any big conspiracy there, nor do accuse anybody for taking over some other people's work, but as credited now it follows that Josephine is the author of the book. What opens possible discussion about another issue related to both Nettime and NGOs...Internal dynamical structure in relation to acclimated goals and principles. As we all know, many NGO's press releases are full of slogans about civil society and freedom of expression, but how many do exercise any of those principles internally? And soon or later those organization just implode in some meaningless simulation of the real work. Not wanting that kind of destiny to Nettime, I think we shell all think carefully about how nettime relates to its authors, their copy rights (if any) and the incredible number of well intended individuals and (sometimes) great texts that appear here. Cheers Drazen _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold