CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Intellectual Property Organization, Copyright Modernization Act, Middle Power
17 Dec 2016
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More on communication and labour (shepherd and dyer-) Copyright and intellectual property (bannerman and winseck) Rip: a remix manifesto (exerpt) brent gaylor, 2008. Bernard meige french cultural economist who identified some of the (cid:498)conditions of cultural labour(cid:499) Creative workers bear the cost of conception on behalf of the cultural industries/ companies by being willing to forego the benefits of secure working conditions and in nearly all cases earning relatively little when they do. Creative labour is underpaid because of a perpetual over-supply. Result: almost all creative workers are extremely handsomely compensated (cid:523)(cid:498)stars(cid:499) as part of the risk-reduction strategy of cultural industries) Many are willing to endure unemployment, underemployment and poor compensation because of the possibility of huge pay-off. Commitment to creative work as valuable in and of itself (aside from financial compensation) for the non-financial benefits of participation in creative work.
