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approaches such as Piratbyran’s question<br />
these terms - about what to do with<br />
the “content” produced today, before<br />
Pirate Party reaches its political goals<br />
and the world is free of copyright?<br />
Well, I don’t think authors have any reason<br />
to fear the pirate movement, quite to the<br />
contrary. What we are about is the right to<br />
share, the right to communicate and the<br />
right to collaborate. What we are against is<br />
monopolistic distribution, old distribution<br />
chains, locking artists in and forcing artists<br />
basically to sell to the monopolies and<br />
then stripping them off all their rights. An<br />
artist cannot even go out and hold a concert<br />
without the approval of the record company.<br />
I think that’s unfair, that’s evil and immoral.<br />
So what we’re for is the right to remix, share,<br />
collaborate and distribute. I don’t see this as<br />
a problem for authors, quite to the contrary,<br />
I think this is one of the biggest cultural<br />
political issues for the 21 st century.<br />
Until we wait for the Pirate Party to take<br />
over the European Parliament and get us<br />
rid of the copyright, what is your advice<br />
for the “authors” and artists regarding<br />
licensing? Should they go for Creative<br />
Commons, should they go for nothing<br />
(most of national law jurisdictions, if<br />
something is not tagged at all, would<br />
claim it as fully copyrighted). What<br />
should people do in the meantime?<br />
Creative Commons is good, in terms of that<br />
it builds critical mass for a library of music,<br />
a library of works that you can go to without<br />
tapping in the old monopolies. I’m just<br />
waiting for the first net radio station to use<br />
only Creative Commons licensed music, for<br />
instance. They wouldn’t need the old monopolies,<br />
and that would be such a huge blow<br />
to the old system. And as for what authors<br />
should do, well, I think they should continue<br />
81<br />
to do what they have always done, which is<br />
create culture, share culture, borrow from<br />
each other and be inspired. And we want to<br />
keep that legal.<br />
More and more PR departments of the<br />
biggest businesses are starting to use<br />
words like collaborative, participatory,<br />
open source... Are we seeing the attempt<br />
of a massive appropriation of terms? Is<br />
this the sign of the industries based on<br />
patents and copyright loosing the battle<br />
and trying to change the name, but not<br />
the game?<br />
I just think they’re trying to play with words<br />
to sound like that they are in the game, but<br />
they really aren’t. It’s one thing to talk the<br />
talk but I’ll be impressed when I see they<br />
walk the walk.<br />
A perfect ending! Thanks a lot.<br />
Thank you.<br />
interview: vladimir jerić vlidi<br />
special thanks: simon goldin<br />
audio & video of this interview @slobodnakultura.org<br />
- No copyright, re-reader 2006/07, 2007.-
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