Situated, Collective Authorship
Summary
This "input" into the study day "Authors of the Future" (Constant, Brussels) rethinks current practices of copyleft and licensing. Starting from the etymology of the term "author" (Latin "auctor") as the one who "facilitates, augments and causes to grow" my presentation asks what would happen if we'd shifted the evaluation framework of authorship from counting "outputs" to valueing "inputs".
Since "inputs" can be seen closer to the practices of facilitating and enabling the emphasis would not be on the produced object, but on what it enables. Would we still need to think about licenses in such circumstances or would such an approach make questions of ownership obsolete?
Supported by
Constant Brussels
Description of project
Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and individualism. It conceives creations as original works, making collective, networked practices difficult to fit. Within that legal and ideological framework, Copyleft, Open Content Licenses or Free Culture Licensing introduced a different view of authorship, opening up the possibility for a re-imagining of authorship as a collective, feminist, webbed practice. But over time, some of the initial spark and potentiality of Free Culture licensing has been normalised and its problems and omissions have become increasingly apparent. This study day is therefore meant to see if we can start re-imagining copyleft together.
Can we invent licences that are based on collective creative practices, in which cooperation between the machine and biological authors, need not be an exception? How could attribution be a form of situated genealogy, rather than accounting for heritage through listing names of contributing individuals? In what way can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and in what way could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Or perhaps we should think of very different strategies?
International study day, Constant Brussels hosted by ISELP (Institut Supérieur pour l’Étude du Langage Plastique) Brussels.
With Severine Dusollier (SciencesPo, Paris):
"Inclusive copyright
Aymeric Mansoux (XPUB, Rotterdam):
"Free Only if"
Eva Weinmayr (Piracy Project/And Publishing, London):
Situated Collective Authorship
Daniel Blanga Gubbay (KFDA, Brussels):
Potential Authorship
Type of work
Presentation, Pro-positive Input
Published in
Authors of The Future: Re-imagining Copyleft,, Constant, Brussels
http://constantvzw.org/w/?u=https://gallery.constantvzw.org/index.php/authors_of_the_future
Link to web site
http://constantvzw.org/w/?u=http://media.constantvzw.org/s/Authors-of-the-future/recordings
http://constantvzw.org/w/?u=http://sound.constantvzw.org/Authors-of-the-future/materials/
http://constantvzw.org/w/?u=https://gallery.constantvzw.org/index.php/authors_of_the_future
http://constantvzw.org/w/?u=https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/authorsofthefuture.participants
Date
2019-09-27Creator
Weinmayr, Eva
Keywords
Copyleft
Licenses
Entangled notions of authorship
Free culture
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng