be an ip donor
Published by elliott bledsoe on Tuesday, 4 March 2008 at 1:59 PM
I'm in Adelaide in South Australia for the Graffiti Research Lab's Master Class at the Adelaide Bank Festival of the Arts. GRL's host is FAT (Free Art and Technology) who run a project called Public Domain Donor. It is a small sticker you can affix to the back of your driver's licence or ID to inform people that in the unfortunate and untimely event of your death that your copyright should pass into the Public Domain.
The projects site explains the rationale:
Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will “promote the progress of science and useful arts” (U.S. Constitution). Ensure that your creativity will live on after you are gone, make a donation today.
Of course, the enforceability of the licence granted by the sticker is questionable (at best), but the quip is in how succinctly it can draw attention to how ridiculous the duration of most copyright terms actually is. Love it!
Tomorrow I will be talking about appropriation art in the permissions culture. If you're in town, it will be held at the Adelaide Festival Centre from 10am to noon.
The source files for the stickers and an instruction video are available here.
You'll pass this on, won't you:
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