Who lives here
What is ownership?
It has been described as: ownership (the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to another possession, ownership (the act of having and controlling property). ownership (the state or fact of being an owner) I have ownership of this page i.e added my name and comments to it, does this in turn make it mine? If you add,edit or respond, are we in shared ownership? If you are reading this. Am I sharing with you?
Creative commons allows us to write my views here and/or copy information from the public domain in order for us to take ownership. If we decided to copy information from the public domain,paste it here, by process of transfere, does that information become mine? In writing this we intended to utilize information provided to us by the world wide web on various and similar toipcs of interest. Copy right limits on our rights to use information, to communicate knowledge, to be creative in our work and play. Copyright means control, and that control is in the hands of big business and therefore we see it taken out of our hands. We all hold opinions on issues and concerns. We all use similar language to describe or express ourselves, who is to say that what we express is not identicial in release to what somebody else might speak. I am not sure that we as humans are philosophically and physchologically unique from each other. The law needs to provide clarity about legal rights and obligations in the technological sphere with what i can do as a citizian with other peoples information. Some people seem to think that everything and anything is possible with new technologies and should be controlled by copyright, they are saying that the idea of private, non-commercial use belongs in the past. The two keywords of copyright awareness should be balance and clarity: Balance in giving weight to the interests of the public and individual authors and artists; and clarity in expressing the rights and obligations of those of us who create, use and exploit copyright works. At one time or another, almost all of us find ourselves at different points in the cycle of knowledge – sometimes using, sometimes creating, sometimes communicating these works. We must be free to obtain the requisite knowledge, be free to think and devise new solutions based on previous knowledge, be free to apply the knowledge in material terms, and be free to reap the benefits of his knowledge. We all have an interest in the protection of authors and in access to knowledge. These are not special interests; they are everyone's concerns. We all have the right to speech.
We are a collaborative group researching and working on social and political issues that concern us now. the now being the everyday, the everyday being me and you walking down the street, going to work, going to sleep, getting up, going to work.....
we as a group deconstructed the concept of copyright and applied it to our current social and economic climate.The climate of today. Through this process we concluded that the most relevant interpretation applicable to our social practice was the concept of ownership. We explored this concept as a definition and how we could apply this to our surrounding environment.Through this discussion we naturally gravitated towards conceptualising “ownership” in terms of copyright. We considered making replicas of either local artists or international artists work and holding an exhibition. This raised many practical questions, how could we reproduce the work on a limited timeframe and budget, should we copy unknown images or iconic ones and should the exhibition be held in a public or private space? A theme emerged within our discussions around ownership and more specifically private/public space. Our thinking process then applied this theme to our immediate surroundings, with particular reference to “ghost estates” and unoccupied spaces, issues raised included:
•How can we define private/public space •The original purpose for unoccupied spaces, who were the spaces intended for and what impact has the vacant spaces on the intended occupants and existing neighbours •NAMA and repercussions of the current banking crisis on housing developments be it private or public, and the impact on all home owners •The discussion then progressed to our immediate surrounding environment with particular reference to ten newly developed vacant houses. •These were originally intended as private housing development for locals. •It is a integral part of our group dynamic that we take a stance and followed this through by taking an appropriate action.
What action are you going to take?
--Dellyb 18:45, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
