[Frameworks] copyright

[Bernard Roddy]

Artforum (October, 2013) has an article by Ross Lipman on the restoration
of Bruce Conner's film, Crossroads (1976). It's nice reading for aesthetic
reasons, because it's all about decisions regarding digital transfers that
get complicated by the artist's own reworking of the film, as well as those
considerations having to do with how the experience of it today ought to
resemble the experience of it when it was, in a sense, completed. Lipman
would be good for those discussions having to do with the archival
integrity of what we are getting. But when he says things like "the most
fundamental sea change wrought by the so-called digital revolution is the
loss of the singular work," he isn't opening the door to the equivalent of
plagiarism.

I am becoming interested in the online teaching environment and recently
learned that full-time faculty retain exclusive control over the content
they develop in Computing and Digital Media, but adjunct faculty give up
their rights (other than to use what they make) to the university. It's not
exactly the problem facing artists who can so easily be subjected to
duplication and upload without their consent. But there is a resemblance in
that copyright law, as it exist and is enforced (and as it is revised) is
almost beside the point. In previous teaching that included copyright
questions I began to see copyright law as essentially a tool for commercial
purposes. What we would want to protest as a form of theft (and without
appealing to markets or who earns what from it) isn't really of concern in
copyright law.

Bernie

Bernie
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