Voices_Of_Ryan wrote:Otohiko wrote:Sure, I know. But you also have to realize that the idea of "intellectual property" as is being enforced by DMCA and the like is a very artificial and historically-unfounded one. Certainly there is room and reasonable ways for defining remix-art as distinct and tolerable - and it's not like we're trying to make bucks off of that either.
Money or not, we're still taking something that wasn't ours to begin with. I feel like artists have always been prosicuted and 50% of the time it was probably because they did something wrong whether or not they thought it was wrong.
So while I agree we're artist in the best sense of the word. I have to admit that if I go to the walmart parking lot and spraypaint on it a portriat of a famous person. Even though the ground is "Technicly" ours (as humans) it's still a goverment given property and not ours in the laws terms.
And yet having logos and advertisements all over the place including the night sky, the roads, spray painted onto sidewalks, and other publicly owned areas is completely legal.
So it seems it's alright for rich corporations to take OUR things away but not for us to take theirs.

