非官方發佈資料 Unofficial Release
Art without Boundary 藝術無垠
UM Blogger 網誌編輯組
sept, 2008
For
many years, albeit some of our members did work as freelance, we've
drawn pictures, taken photos and video just for fun. Creative industry
was not a promising industry to young people for its unreliable return
of income. Equipments for foto or movie taking were also expensive and
complicated. Both the dark room technique and video production process
was too professional for
ordinary people. Let
alone movie taking, playing back the wheels of
film was a real nightmare to novice. We had little chance to share
them with other people. The
great leap-forward of digital
technology has empowered everybody simple, practical, affordable
and user friendly equipments for creating his own picture or
video in a much easier way. Even
a cell phone has a built-in video camera capable of taking video as
good as the obsolete but expensive super-eight cine camera for amateur
artists. Every body now become a witness as well as a reporter of
the
great issue at the great moment. Moreover, with the internet, all
people in the
world can now be your audience seeing what you've seen and hearing what
you've heard. We believe that the nature and real life are
the
essence of art which will bring inspiration to the artist and
vigor
to his work in the process of creation. All these pictures or
video
clips created
by our
colleagues are now released to the pubic free of charge under our "UM
Free Art License".
These are only part of
our portfolio. We keep working on our archives and releasing
them to the public from time to time. As
what we believe in sharig, they are not just some
kind
of
artwork but may serve as documentation of the development of our world
in the last few decades. Just click, view and enjoy.
However, some of the artworks may contain the sound or image of
identifiable person or
entity. They
may not be suitable for making unauthorized derivatives. To avoid
abuse or
obsession, we show the clips using streaming technology. Please do not
circumvent the protection against unauthorized download and respect the
person or entity involved. Regarding still pictures, please observe
the general ethical rules and relevant ordinances too. As all
we know. Discretion and sense of responsibility are the foundation of freedom. Any
delinquent behavior will only give way to the rent seeker to take
advantages from the restriction of healthy spreading of art and
knowledge. For this reason, instead of "creative common license", we
release our works to the public under our own "UM Free Art License",
which contains the clause restricting the abuse of the sound or
image of third party in the artwork if there is any. To illustrate our concern,
just look at a common scenery picture of a city and you may easily
identify a good deal of copyrighted trade marks or brand names
occupying
the skyline. On the one hand, some of these copyright owners
occupy the public space deliberately and even invade our private reign
with overwhelming promotional articles, while on the other hand they
blame other people infringe their intellectual property for frivolous
reasons. As an insider of creative industry, we have had a lot of such
direct experiences as well as indirect informations about the frivolous
claim from frivolous litigators representing these mean and harsh copyright owners. Their radical behavior has driven our
world back to the older ages featured by privileged people owning the
privilege to enjoy the benefit of art and knowledge. The scenerio of Digital divide is a solid evidence.
Just like software
industry, art
work as an intellectual property is different to physical product. Once
it is created, there is almost no marginal cost accrued for the
distribution and reproduction of the product. Our practical experience
tells us that only direct service can generate reliable
income. There may exist a very few prestiged vendors in the
market possessing monopoly power over their competitors and customers.
However, as a humble service provider in the creative industry, we are
not benefited from the revised copyright ordinance under the current
legal framework. We rather provide "free demonstration service" to the
public than paying the media for gaining the popularity or wasting time
and money to
claim damages for the infringement of our works. In fact, it
seems that our legislators do not know exactly how ip producers make
their money in the real world.
To sum up, analogous to the SaaS (Software as a Service), we advocate "AaaS" (Artwork as a Service). And, we believe in sharing.
