All the rhetoric which has been beaten like dead horses aside, there is a new angle seemingly lacking intelligent discussion.<br><br>It was claimed IIRC by Stewart Brand that "Information wants to be free"<br>Then you know who introduced the Beer Vs Freedom meme.
<br>Yet what the hell is meant by those in our mundane world?<br>Want in one hand and wish in the other if you want two empty hands was what I'd been told all my life. AkA "TANSTAAFL"<br><br>So who pays the bills if all is free? Ah, there's the problem. Sadly one not answerable by 42.
<br><br>Allegedly the term "Copyleft" at one time literally was found on buttons at cons proclaiming "all rights reversed"<br>Then again,in the DRM ethos all rights are denied absent the de minimus and even those are dubious.
<br>See the real purpose of HDMI for example. Or read most EULA of closed source origin. All this IS heading to a point.<br> <br>The succession of GPL versions have made varying approaches to rational handling of the disparate interests involved.
<br>I humbly offer a radically simpler reboot of the gaming..<br><br>Can we function under a guideline of honor as a bond? That means a declaration of mutual self respect for declared IP rights including their inalienable repudiation from another' profit?
<br> <br>Yes, the applied fiction of repudiation is arguably incorrect legal semantics but it spotlights a gap I feel needs attention.<br><br>Currently all the Diverse IP statues seem lacking in an instrumentality where an IP creator can declare their work as property of all while denying commercial interests from privatising in a restrictive manner such works.
<br><br><br>One proposal is for granting works their own incarnation.<br>There is legal precedent for chattels being of limited yet real court standing.<br>My closing example for now is a proposal for one symbol possible as denoting such .
<br><br>A circle surrounding a F.<br><br>Simply put that denotes in a better future than we deserve an IP item could be used but not sold or profited from in a manner that would diminish it's freedom to others. <br><br>
DO please try to pick apart this concept but be mindful that history is trending to a fork. Either the F in the circle or another emblem in a circle of more grim history.<br>