Ownership Issues on the Online Saatchi-Stuart Gallery
The Wasabi contribution "Left your Rights?" to the Saatchi-Stuart online gallery is to recontectualize works first contributed by other artist to the this database. The artworks are copied and re-published together with a new text and title. By changing the title and context the works are deformated, not to say destroyed, by the new context they are presented in.
Hence Wasabi is doing the same to your work then saatchi-stuart does. By recontextualizing and relabeling it origin and not even commenting on copyright/copyleft and ownership issues.
INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:
This action is inspired by the fact that Stuart Gallery does not publish any statement on legal ownership of the material they present trough their site. Nor ask the artist to sign up a legal contract when becoming a user of this service. Publishing your artwork with out ANY copyright statement means that your work is presented in "public domain" and can be used in ANY context by ANYONE without asking you ANY permission.
In order to initialize further discussion on that topic we invite you to the disscussin board of Hirvikatu10 - an alternative artist presentation space in North-Europe. There we, as a private initiative. are giving you more information on the topic of ownership and publishing rights.
For further study we recomend you:
http://www.sonance.net/lnx/copyleft.html
Commercial Net-Communities are not to be taken lightly.
Ownership Issues on the Online Saatchi-Stuart Gallery
Ownership Issues on the Online Saatchi-Stuart Gallery
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/StudentArt/ast_id/29471
The discussion is also possible at:
http://copycenter.sonance.net/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=3
However, on behalf of Hirvikatu 10 community I invite everybody interested in copyrights issues to participate to this discussion. Internet is an environment where ownership and copyright legislation process is quite tricky business due the hyperlinks and anonymity. In many ways this environment allows ultraliberal actions and by doing so challenges the more traditional media to re-think it´s philosophies. From my point of view, as an independent grassroot level culture agent, I find this idea of public domain very welcome. That doesn´t mean I don´t see the copyright issue as problematic, though.
http://copycenter.sonance.net/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=3
However, on behalf of Hirvikatu 10 community I invite everybody interested in copyrights issues to participate to this discussion. Internet is an environment where ownership and copyright legislation process is quite tricky business due the hyperlinks and anonymity. In many ways this environment allows ultraliberal actions and by doing so challenges the more traditional media to re-think it´s philosophies. From my point of view, as an independent grassroot level culture agent, I find this idea of public domain very welcome. That doesn´t mean I don´t see the copyright issue as problematic, though.