Posts by Sacha
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Mind you I had no sympathy for soft Aucklanders who complained about the cold in 'winter'.
Barefoot rugby on the frosty fields of Taranaki certainly brought a different perspective to the winderless north.
Found chch too damn cold though, and Dunedin even turned on a 12 degree Xmas day for me one year. Middle of bloody summer, I thought, looking across at Aramoana.
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Ta - was curious. Saw a tv news story suggesting the East coast was having a hard time of it.
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Keri, thank you for the overseas examples.
I can totally relate to the stormy arthritis grumpiness (and probably only a day behind you as those southerly fronts sweep over). I found the last few years much worse, and I'm not sure if it's actually climate change, me getting older, or both. It doesn't bring out the best in me, that's fer sure.
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Islander, imagine if tourism promoters had to pay you a cut for every mention of your work? I'm talking about a mechanism for allowing that type of thing.
Despite your distrust of bureaucrats, I don't see the private sector rushing to help you - other that the well-established mechanisms of the book publishing industry where I suspect a fair chunk of the profits go into pockets other than yours.
I'm offering an alternative to giving up. Feel free to share yours.
Off-topic, what's the real story in your area about the whitebait numbers this year?
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Great debt graph, Mark. Wonder what the Kiwi equivalent would look like?
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Bullies would generally mutilate unusual names repeatly and in humiliating ways until the victim was infuriated into taking action, and then they'd beat them up.
Well, they'd try. Moved around the country a bit, and in every school you'd get the same small-minded munters policing any signs of difference. Luckily most of them couldn't fight for shit.
I managed to escape the worst totalitarian excesses described by others, although sexist discrimination about hair length still seems to carry on today in some schools. Never could get a sensible answer about how that was a "health issue" for the boys but not the girls (and asking the question led to the rapid disbanding by the principal of his new students' council).
I have good memories of peer learning, even though it wasn't official policy at any of the schools I went to. Ta for the story about your daughter, Rob.
And teachers are specifically warned off saying things like "I'm leaving you in charge" in case there is a mudslide or an earthquake and some child blames themselves forever. Canadians think like that
Must be the wild competition for takeaways:
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Totally agree, Joe.
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Got me wrong, Rob. I believe copyright and related business models in their current form don't work well enough. Creators deserve a better vehicle for reflecting their value to society in ways that count to them - whether that's control over usage, income, recognition or otherwise.
I think Creative Commons is one response to addressing usage and recognition, but not really income. Be interesting to hear if Lessig talks about that at the LIANZA conference next month.
Joe, I was thinking of people who innovate in other areas like IT, farming, public policy, social entrepreneurship, etc - and wondering why current practice treats them differently from cultural creators. I include people whose core role or source of reward is not about "creating". By "some" I meant earlier on these threads, I just couldn't be arsed looking up who said what.
I don't like assumptions that only artists do not have a fair market to operate in, or that it is perfectly OK for any creators to have their return abrogated because they are employed or volunteering or in some other arrangement at the time of creation, not necessarily at the time when their innovation pays off. If that were set up as a choice, then fine. I'm not buying the line about folks envying the courageous entrepreneurs. Working arrangements will only continue to become more flexible, so industrial-age arrangements are silly.
Often there's a time lag between the creation of an idea or utterance and when it becomes popular and/or lucrative to implement, publish or exploit it. Surely that's one reason copyright and similar protections were set up in the first place.
Here's my solution: set up a state-run Intellectual Property bank drawing on private sector expertise. It could afford to enforce breaches locally and globally under what will no doubt remain unfair protection laws where minnows could never bankroll a fight. This organisation would also actively build the understanding of New Zealanders about the opportunities available to us as innovators in a range of fields.
It would market and make easily available our innovations over time, help negotiate implementation arrangements as they arise - and provide some transparent and long-term certainty that each creator's contribution will be both rewarded and be as widely available for use and return as possible. It could include some sort of futures market like iPredict to give early guidance about value and opportunities for exploitation.
Might cost about $400m per year?, with offsetting income streams from enforcement successes and a cut of licensing and other profit (providing a variety of levels of risk/return in the partnerhips with individual creators).
I don't see the "free" market providing that at present (except perhaps the record companies who have kept most of the returns for themselves and are reaping goodwill accordingly).
I reckon it would be a better investment in this country's future than I'm hearing from any politicians right now. Do those who know more than me about the current state of intellectual capital arrangements think my idea could work?
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Islander, I think you have just proved Lyndon's point - those would be "IP rights" that only exist because of copyright law. Getting a bit circular.
We need better ways to reflect the value to society of creative work, as I said at the beginning of this thread. I really need to read more to understand the complexities, but I get that much.
And there are plenty of jobs that involve pouring your heart and sweat into creating material which you subsequently have no control over the use of - so I can see why some people are asking what's so special about artists and authors.
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"banjo-free hick-hop" - classic :)
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