15 License and Intellectual Property

Jeff Putney
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:09:00 GMT

Licensing of my Final Project

My final project will be using the Decolonial Media License 0.1. It's a Share Alike + Attribution license very similar to the Free Art License 1.3, GNU Free Documentation License 1.3, or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Why?

Well I think the wording from the license describes it best:

We recognize that private ownership over media, ideas, and technology is rooted in European conceptions of property and the history of colonialism from which they formed. These systems of privatization and monopolization, namely copyright and patent law, enforce the systems of punishment and reward which benefit a privileged minority at the cost of others’ creative expression, political discourse, and cultural survival. The private and public institutions, legal frameworks, and social values which uphold these systems are inseparable from broader forms of oppression. Indigenous people, people of color, queer people, trans people, and women are particularly exploited for their creative and cultural resources while hardly receiving any of the personal gains or legal protections for their work.

We also recognize that the public domain has jointly functioned to compliment the private, as works in the public domain may be appropriated for use in proprietary works. Therefore, we use copyleft not only to circumvent the monopoly granted by copyright, but also to protect against that appropriation.

Dissemination

The current plan is to leave pJazz in by bathroom and then guests can experience it for themselves. My backup plan would be to create a super cheap version that could be left is restrooms thus providing music for restooom users at completely random locations.