Der Kampf um Befreiung oder Verknappung von Informationen und Immaterialgütern | Telepolis

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-19

Summary:

[From Google's English] "  Mark Getty, co-founder and chairman of the picture agency Getty Images and son of oil billionaire Paul Getty, knows the value of information. He is credited with a quip, among other things, according to intellectual property, the oil of the 21st Century was. And actually gush out fast data connections, free wireless space on the World Wide Web, media platforms and services that enabled the much-described transformation from consumer to prosumer, for producing consumer, data and information such as the recently developed oil from a source.  Such an interpretation of the oil metaphor could probably come advocates of open access to information in mind, Mark Getty, however, might prefer a contrary interpretation, the business model of Getty Images is but the starving of information: Photographers occur in the so-called total buyout against an Once payment all rights to their images to Getty Images. Henceforth, only the Group has the ability to allow the use of photographs - of course against royalties.Consequently, can be found on the WWW also no picture Mark Gettys, which would be available under an open license.  In short: Think proponent of open access to information in said oil metaphor to not exuberant, and freed by floating information, Mark Getty has thereby probably the gas station pump in the back of the head, where you have to pay for the use of an asset. However, oil is of course a complete other good as information about which digital: While oil can be used as a material good only exclusive information can be used non-rivalrous. And where oil is destroyed in use, is increased in the use of information and enables the creation of new information. Shortage, however, reduces the value of information."

Link:

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/40/40291/1.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.policies oa.comment oa.museums oa.german oa.glam oa.images oach oa.getty_museum oa.getty_images oa.ch

Date tagged:

11/19/2013, 07:30

Date published:

11/19/2013, 02:30