My rights as a creator :CopyRight Authorship Property Rights within a Transmedial Narrative.

As the SEER has progressed as a project ,I started to think about property rights. My Property rights . What are they and how do I protect them in a space where in order for the piece to work the audience must participate in its very creation.

Sampling, Copyleft, Wikipedia, and Transformation of Authorship and Culture in Digital Media

Sachiko Hayashi

http://www.hz-journal.org/n9/hayashi.html

A really interesting article which opened my mind to some of the key issues surrounding property rights within a transmendial environment. Dealing with issues like sampling ,appropriation and the origins of copyright it begins to frame the arguments around IP in this area.
 
Modernism with its quest for authenticity and originality viewed the artist as the self contained genius the Author god - is challenged by the poststructualism Barthes in his work "Death of the Author" which points that when using the words the author is relying on the fact that we understand their meaning - ie the concepts and story's behind each word within which there meaning is found and from the combination these concepts and story's that the author wants create new meaning.

"the text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture"

So nothing is truly original!


For anybody that has read any of my blog so far the question has to be asked what has all this theory got to do with property rights within a transmedial space? And the answer is Copyright and Intellectual Property. Copyright is law which in essence " a right to [protect and benefit from] the ideas ones generates and the art one produces."
Copyright
"The right to reproduce...adapt or derive other works from it, the right to distribute copies of the original work, the right to perform and display work......"
Originally this area of law stems from the idea that you need to protect the rights of the author to encourage the free flow of ideas .... does that work is it even possible in transmedial world? How does it fit into a situation where the audience of a piece of work , by the act of consumption go onto create that piece of work!!

I clearly don't have all the answer yet , but I have started thinking and will certainly continue to explore this in the future.