ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
“Take part to ideas. Graphic designers and their research on intellectual property” is an ongoing project. It's a starting point for a wider debate: the purpose is to share ideas around “intellectual property” in its widest meaning through different exhibitions, which collect projects such as books, posters, texts, videos, websites.
The first exhibition of the series I'm planning to curate was in the first week of september 2010 in Bologna (Capo di Lucca 12) The next one will be happening in October in Urbino (ISIA of Urbino). In March I am going to organize a week of conferences and workshops together with the exhibition, again in Bologna. Possibly the same will occur in Venice, and who knows if with all the participants (Samuel Bonnet, Joris Bovijn, Michèle Champagne, Jules Estèves, Stefano Faoro, Mael Fournier-Comte, Christina Franken, Harry Gassel, Caterina Giuliani, Brendan Griffiths, Shiro Inoue, Michela Povoleri, Erica Preli, Michael Rinaldi, Mark Simmonds, Tom Tjon A Loi, Brian Watterson) we can manage to organize an international workshop together! That is to say that I would like this project to become bigger, and I would appreciate a lot if somebody wanted to discuss this proposal and participate in some way. Samuel Bonnet and Mael Fournier-Comte participated at the exhibition with a poster on Parallel School and so I asked them to share more information about it here.
Introduction to the exhibition:
Who do quotes belong to?
What are the rights that we must protect for the society's benefit?
Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?
These were the questions asked to seventeen young designers (Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium). This exhibition is a survey, throughout different international realities, on the way designers face intellectual property. It is important that this topic, clearly related to graphic designersí work, is still marginal and that it is still just on a research level.
The aptitude to share information and experiences, characteristic of contemporary society, due to new information technologiesí development, to Globalization, to the birth of social networks, to open-source and free-software movements, to relational and participatory artistic movements, starts to be more and more predominant; at the same time it is countered by restrictions that prevent from free sharing of knowledge and consequently from free growth of social wellness produced by knowledge. One of the limits is copyright: on one hand it protects single author's wellness, on the other hand it forbid to use his ideas. There are some contradictions inside this structure.
Do ideas really belong to someone or they are products of society and history? Authors make their intellectual property available to the society, but the society is not allowed to freely appropriate and reuse this production, disadvantaging or stopping collective growth. Is it just a matter of recognition, of income, or are there other reasons that lead to prevent free circulation and free use of contents? The author is included in this socio-economic context in such a way that he perceives the gain of using as quite irrelevant, since its existence is primarily intended to protect the market.Is it possible to imagine a future in which systems such as print-on-demand is a viable alternative to the status quo? How does that relate to the protection of individual rights or of those belonging to the community?
Obviously, at the present time, copyright is a guarantee for a lot of people. Other solutions - such as Creative Commons licenses which allow sharing of content with the possibility to limit its use at different levels - are not highly considered. These new licenses create a virtuous circle that, if respected by all, vastly favors collective growth. To the question: “Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?” clearly there is not just one answer. The projects in the exhibition highlight various issues related to intellectual property, questioning contradictions and problems, trying to avoid easy idealistic solutions. They are starting points included in the view of participation, meaning with that the participation present in sharing ideas; they have the intent to be nodes from which further thoughts, speeches and debates develop. The aim of the exhibition is to make available these reflections on a key issue for graphic designers so that they can be possibly extended.
“Art is a game between men of all ages” Marcel Duchamp
“Take part to ideas. Graphic designers and their research on intellectual property” is an ongoing project. It's a starting point for a wider debate: the purpose is to share ideas around “intellectual property” in its widest meaning through different exhibitions, which collect projects such as books, posters, texts, videos, websites.
The first exhibition of the series I'm planning to curate was in the first week of september 2010 in Bologna (Capo di Lucca 12) The next one will be happening in October in Urbino (ISIA of Urbino). In March I am going to organize a week of conferences and workshops together with the exhibition, again in Bologna. Possibly the same will occur in Venice, and who knows if with all the participants (Samuel Bonnet, Joris Bovijn, Michèle Champagne, Jules Estèves, Stefano Faoro, Mael Fournier-Comte, Christina Franken, Harry Gassel, Caterina Giuliani, Brendan Griffiths, Shiro Inoue, Michela Povoleri, Erica Preli, Michael Rinaldi, Mark Simmonds, Tom Tjon A Loi, Brian Watterson) we can manage to organize an international workshop together! That is to say that I would like this project to become bigger, and I would appreciate a lot if somebody wanted to discuss this proposal and participate in some way. Samuel Bonnet and Mael Fournier-Comte participated at the exhibition with a poster on Parallel School and so I asked them to share more information about it here.
Introduction to the exhibition:
Who do quotes belong to?
What are the rights that we must protect for the society's benefit?
Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?
These were the questions asked to seventeen young designers (Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium). This exhibition is a survey, throughout different international realities, on the way designers face intellectual property. It is important that this topic, clearly related to graphic designersí work, is still marginal and that it is still just on a research level.
The aptitude to share information and experiences, characteristic of contemporary society, due to new information technologiesí development, to Globalization, to the birth of social networks, to open-source and free-software movements, to relational and participatory artistic movements, starts to be more and more predominant; at the same time it is countered by restrictions that prevent from free sharing of knowledge and consequently from free growth of social wellness produced by knowledge. One of the limits is copyright: on one hand it protects single author's wellness, on the other hand it forbid to use his ideas. There are some contradictions inside this structure.
Do ideas really belong to someone or they are products of society and history? Authors make their intellectual property available to the society, but the society is not allowed to freely appropriate and reuse this production, disadvantaging or stopping collective growth. Is it just a matter of recognition, of income, or are there other reasons that lead to prevent free circulation and free use of contents? The author is included in this socio-economic context in such a way that he perceives the gain of using as quite irrelevant, since its existence is primarily intended to protect the market.Is it possible to imagine a future in which systems such as print-on-demand is a viable alternative to the status quo? How does that relate to the protection of individual rights or of those belonging to the community?
Obviously, at the present time, copyright is a guarantee for a lot of people. Other solutions - such as Creative Commons licenses which allow sharing of content with the possibility to limit its use at different levels - are not highly considered. These new licenses create a virtuous circle that, if respected by all, vastly favors collective growth. To the question: “Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?” clearly there is not just one answer. The projects in the exhibition highlight various issues related to intellectual property, questioning contradictions and problems, trying to avoid easy idealistic solutions. They are starting points included in the view of participation, meaning with that the participation present in sharing ideas; they have the intent to be nodes from which further thoughts, speeches and debates develop. The aim of the exhibition is to make available these reflections on a key issue for graphic designers so that they can be possibly extended.
“Art is a game between men of all ages” Marcel Duchamp
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