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THE LEGENDARY SAM HASKINS

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"‘Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.’ –Marcel Proust"

Can ideas be owned?

We are all getting hung up on the rhetoric that equates ideas with commodities, even while we attempt to directly oppose it. Both authors address this problem in their work by asking what is public and what is private. If a privately owned company pays someone to create an image, and then they display that image publicly and prominently, is that image private or public?

By extension we can ask the same of ideas. If an author sets forth an idea and publishes it, is that idea public or private?

If you answered either, you are wrong.

Ideas are not commodities and therefore cannot be situated in either the public or private spheres. The author linked to in this post seems to get that.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/qr53o/banksys_now_famous_view_on_advertising_may_have/c3ztkwu

“Chances are pretty good you’ve recently seen the “Banksy on Advertising” quote that begins, “People are taking the piss out of you everyday.” The passage is from Banksy’s 2004 book Cut It Out, and it presents the idea that if advertisers are going to fill your world with ads, you have every right to “take, re-arrange and re-use” those images without permission. The quote has been posted widely on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, which is where I found it.

Here’s the interesting part:

Most of it is swiped directly from an essay I wrote in 1999, in the “Death, Phones, Scissors” issue of my zine Crap Hound. ”

http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

Can ideas be owned?

We are all getting hung up on the rhetoric that equates ideas with commodities, even while we attempt to directly oppose it. Both authors address this problem in their work by asking what is public and what is private. If a privately owned company pays someone to create an image, and then they display that image publicly and prominently, is that image private or public?

By extension we can ask the same of ideas. If an author sets forth an idea and publishes it, is that idea public or private?

If you answered either, you are wrong.

Ideas are not commodities and therefore cannot be situated in either the public or private spheres. The author linked to in this post seems to get that.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/qr53o/banksys_now_famous_view_on_advertising_may_have/c3ztkwu

“Chances are pretty good you’ve recently seen the “Banksy on Advertising” quote that begins, “People are taking the piss out of you everyday.” The passage is from Banksy’s 2004 book Cut It Out, and it presents the idea that if advertisers are going to fill your world with ads, you have every right to “take, re-arrange and re-use” those images without permission. The quote has been posted widely on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, which is where I found it.

Here’s the interesting part:

Most of it is swiped directly from an essay I wrote in 1999, in the “Death, Phones, Scissors” issue of my zine Crap Hound. ”

http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

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