Reposting this bloated commentary on recent art market trends by a pungently named French art writer.
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subject: Art | Business | Finance & Trade | Intellectual Property
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 December, 2007 - 13:45
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Ironic distance is ambiguous. It grounds both critique and detached resignation to the status quo. What becomes of it in the viral world of web 2.0?, ask Pil and Galia Kollectiv
In 1951, in his film Traité de Bave et d'Éternité, Isidore Isou announced:
subject: Blogging | Intellectual Property | Internet | Mute Vol 2 #7 | Web 2.0
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Submitted by Josie on Monday, 2 October, 2006 - 15:53
Dmytri Kleiner
This text, reviewing Lawrence Lessig's lecture at September's Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, adds to the broadening consensus that Creative Commons licenses and their apologists are more interested in mutating (intellectual) property than abolishing it altogether. Here Dmytri Kleiner warns that these Sirens of 'free culture' are diluting the efforts of those fighting for a truly free culture, i.e. one which does not merely float as a fictitious layer upon an underlying and profit-reaping capitalist base
subject: AntiCapitalist | Commons | Intellectual Property | New Enclosures
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Submitted by anthony on Saturday, 21 January, 2006 - 20:24
Bumper version of Knowledge Commons material from the Mute Archive
subject: Computing | Economics | Free Software | Information | Intellectual Property | Internet | Peer2Peer
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 16 November, 2005 - 14:37
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 23 November, 2004 - 00:00
researchers at the Economic Observatory of the University of Openess
Creative Commons advertise their licenses as the best-of-both-worlds between copyright and the public domain. But is the word 'commons' then a misnomer, and can such licensing be subjected to the same abuse as copyright? Saul Albert raises the question and a discussion within the University of Openess Wiki follows
subject: Commons | Intellectual Property
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 July, 2004 - 23:00
Holger Kube Ventura & Sebastian Lütgert
Holger Kube Ventura talks to textz.com founder Sebastian Lütgert about intellectual property and the control society
subject: Intellectual Property
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 January, 2004 - 00:00
Armin Medosch
This January’s Music & Technology conference, hosted at London’s Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), turned an opportunity to explore the implications of copyright and copyleft for the arts into a promotional vehicle for the corporate attack on free information exchange. Armin Medosch reports
subject: Intellectual Property | Music | Technology
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 January, 2004 - 00:00
Mute Editor
II The revolution shall not be criticised?
In response to ISEA98 Micz Flor, organiser of Revolting temporary media laboratory, asks "why now, why revolution?" Is the current popularity of the term and its associated icons anything more than Middle Youth talking to itself in the latest of a long line of fashionable lingos?
IV Net.Politics Q&A
subject: Anarchist | Commons | Computing | Conspiracy | Culture Studies | Cyberspace | Economics | Feminist | Government | Information | Intellectual Property | Internet | Media | Network | New Media Art | Politics | Privacy | Technology | Weapons Technology
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 January, 2004 - 00:00
Florian Cramer
The fate of OpenContent is starting to resemble a bad joke: how many licenses doesit take to enforce the 'freeness' of certain content? Too many to be funny, as FlorianCramer explains
subject: Intellectual Property | Law | Media
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 January, 2004 - 00:00
Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru on Amy Balkin's guerilla-conceptual artwork that exposes the near impossibility of creating public space in the US
subject: Art | Artivism | Intellectual Property | New Enclosures
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 January, 2004 - 00:00
Saul Albert, Simon Worthington, and Fabian Thompsett, with help from Ben Russell, Jo Walsh and Asim
The Semantic Web, a machine readable representation of everything, is a future that has already started to arrive. The University of Openess’ Faculty of Cartography looks at its dual potential to flatten and diversify the relations between data and existence. By Saul Albert, Simon Worthington, and Fabian Thompsett, with help from Ben Russell, Jo Walsh and Asim Butt
subject: Information | Intellectual Property
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 12 January, 2004 - 00:00
Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite
Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite on how the US has used bilateral deals to secure its predominance in the information economy
subject: Finance & Trade | Government | Intellectual Property | New Economy | Policy | TRIPS
