Three visual sequences made for an expert meeting at the Dutch Ministry of Justice on the needed renewal of the "Thuiskooie Fonds systeem" (the home copy find system)
whereby a levy is put on information carriers like CD-ROMS, DVDs and video cassettes, and this money is mianly going to the music industry as a compensation for
loss of income due to homecopying. A special regulation directs 15% of the levy to a special cultural fund (Thuiskopie Fonds) to support innovative creative inititaives.
The gramophone record as a information carrier is a packaged product that goes over the counter in a record shop to be consumed at home and at best be shared during a home party ...
The double cassette deck that allows easy and fast duplicating turns the consumer into a producer of information carriers, home taping has created a new world audience for music ...
The copyrighted music on gramophone records (vinyl) becomes the base for new ever changing personalized music activity; the single idea of copyright is replaced by a multiple practice ...
Visuals for a lecture in design society Baby, Amsterdam 1998 on copyright: a critique on the extension of intellectual property
Visuals for a lecture in design society Baby, Amsterdam 1998 on copyright: a critique on the extension of intellectual property