![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Moderatorial: flaimbait.
Jun. 19th, 2009 10:11 amSlightly provocative post:
There are (as always) flame wars about copyright flourishing in Russian livejournal.
These flame wars usually focus on two distinct classes of people: intellectual property producers and consumers.
One side believes that producers should be only paid once for their work or performance, like Mozart was paid. Other side believes they should be paid for each copy sold, like Madonna is paid.
If we consider the creative class to be an elite in a sense defined by Pareto, then those creative people who run FSF, embrace Creative Commons license, developed P2P networks are clearly counter-elite. As current technology trend favors the counter-elite, the revolution will inevitably happen. I call this revolution because currently the creative class creates a biggest portion of the society's added value, so is essentially a ruling class. (Here Karl Marx's definitions come to play.) By the way next is thing that will create most of the value is motivating and teaching creative workers :)
It would have became more interesting if I added a third category: those who finance creative work. Though I think this hypothesis is flawed as those who are financing creative work are either creative enough to be successful investors, or busted.
There are (as always) flame wars about copyright flourishing in Russian livejournal.
These flame wars usually focus on two distinct classes of people: intellectual property producers and consumers.
One side believes that producers should be only paid once for their work or performance, like Mozart was paid. Other side believes they should be paid for each copy sold, like Madonna is paid.
If we consider the creative class to be an elite in a sense defined by Pareto, then those creative people who run FSF, embrace Creative Commons license, developed P2P networks are clearly counter-elite. As current technology trend favors the counter-elite, the revolution will inevitably happen. I call this revolution because currently the creative class creates a biggest portion of the society's added value, so is essentially a ruling class. (Here Karl Marx's definitions come to play.) By the way next is thing that will create most of the value is motivating and teaching creative workers :)
It would have became more interesting if I added a third category: those who finance creative work. Though I think this hypothesis is flawed as those who are financing creative work are either creative enough to be successful investors, or busted.
