A Thought on Intellectual Property

[benlehman]

Inspired by some kefluffle.

On the internet, a lot of thought (including me) is put into the availability and rights to creative work: intellectual property.

Considerably less emphasis is put on producing creative work which is actually work someone's time: your own or others.

This seems backwards to me.

Comments

[evilmagnus]

"Is of value to someone other than yourself", perhaps?

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's a metric.

But the question isn't "how do we judge what is good or not?" There's any amount of critical metrics out there to use. It's "how do we improve our craft?"

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--Ben