November 22, 2009
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Putting the Arts back into the Arts

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July-August 2008
interview by Danielle Maestretti 
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The Internet is still kind of a Wild West of copyright, but hasn’t the conversation regarding copyright and the creative commons begun?
Yes, but we may be a little late. We’re going to see whether the Internet remains a uniquely open space in which people can create and borrow and learn, or whether it’s going to look just like television and be all carved up with advertising, where everybody’s directed here or there based on the presence of some advertiser’s investment.

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And in the meantime, the digital divide is growing.
The digital divide has morphed into something that I call a cultural divide, which involves not only access to technology, but also access to the money, training, and time that it takes to be a full participant in online work. Right now we have this cohort of people—older people, less educated people, the poor—who, taken together, constitute 15 or 20 percent of the U.S. population that is left out of full participation in the high-speed Internet world. It’s a significant public policy challenge for the United States to make sure we allow everyone to participate.

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  • Dena Matthews 7/3/2008 9:22:03 AM

    Many artists are small business owners and freelancers. Copyright laws serve to protect and reward them. It is important that we work to preserve the U.S. copyright laws and protections.

    If others are allowed carte blance access to rights managed works, just so that they may be able to remix them and profit, most creators of original content will not be able to compete or earn a living. There would be less and less original content created, a trend we are already seeing, according to the author.

    This is an urgent matter as bills in Congress S. 2913 and H.R. 5889 rocketing for imminent passage would free up countless numbers of copyrighted work just because someone has a hard time locating the rightsholder. The only ones who truly stand to benefit are giant corporations who would most likely be the purveyors of the "orphaned" works, remix artists and unscrupulous people who would undercut existing markets.

    Please act now to preserve the laws and protections that make our country so great!

    Sign the petition at:
    http://petitiononline.com/Stop2913/petition.html

    Send letters to Congress at:
    http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

    Thank you!

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