Intellectual property kills creativity | Joost Smiers | TEDxEindhoven

Every Lightbulb Moment starts with an individual human being, going through its creative process. But that does not mean it is an individual process. As Newton said, he stood on the shoulders of giants. Is our current system and philosophy on intellectual property imposing unnecessary restrictions and holding back our collective creativity? With decades of research into the politics of the arts, Joost takes the stand that we should abolish copyright. Joost will speak about the current status of intellectual property and suggest a potential other way of supporting and rewarding creativity and invention as a society. Dr. Joost Smiers is a Professor (em.) of Political Science of the Arts, Research Fellow in the Research Group Arts & Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands, and formerly visiting professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, and Director of Research at the Utrecht School of the Arts.

[PantheraLeo]

No creation exists in a vacuum, it is always based on the work of those who came before. Therefore how can one person claim sole ownership over said creation, when it is only possible because of thousands of years of other people's work. No one can own ideas. And this too applies to physical property as nicely explained by Pyotr Kropotkin, "All belongs to all. All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth. All things are for all."

[popypop]

I'm not usually into topic like the cultural impact of copyright but this was so engaging and fascinating and I'm really going to think more critically about that stuff from this point on

[joeredfield]

You'll find in the industry that property and creativity is neatly blurred for profit. You would think that the property is where the greed falls and the creativity where freedom blosoms. When actually its quite the opposite. Creativity is simply the taking something that wasn't your in the first place and making it yours. The property part is then the symbol of your stolen freedom. What elevates humanity to better itself is how we dictate how our creativity effects ourselves but those it spawns from as well. or else all those ideals behind that creativity fall to nothing more then survival instincts. Which is fine, we are all bound to them. Just in the face of some higher "moral" and "enlightened" keep trying.


That said, I find that if someone profits of my likeness, they do so and move on. Modern Slavery is more real then you would think. Why the strong language? It becomes slavery when you are used, but then you know it, and then your told to not just deal with it, "but to like it". That your wrong for not only paying attention to it, but disagreeing with it as well. That is slavery. being a resource and not having a say in the matter.

[Mabaws-juwp]

The Problem of modern copyrights system is Corporate Greed. Actually if copyright benefited the authors then it's a good thing, But now Corporate is profiting from the loophole and made them Greedy.

[triot]

People should have exclusive right to their creations while they are alive but the idea that here in the US it continues for 70 years after their death is crazy. Imagine if it worked the same way for patents. We probably wouldn't have a lot of the tech we have now.

[VideoGameWizardry]

I don't know about you but I have never had a say in what a public fund is doing. I don't even know how to find like a voting page or whatever for a public fund? is there like an index?

[VideoGameWizardry]

this doesn't work for all intellectual property "Why should they [the artists] decide what is good for us". 1. they don't determine what is good for us because they don't know. 2. they determine what to do autonomosly because that is how art works, art is the exposure to unknown culture, the value literally exists in its lack of previous influence or say from us.

[DaleCoutinho]

just FYI i was not interested in patent or protecting IP.. just wanted to kno bout it n hav my answrs or Alt solution ready ..

[ThatGreenSpy]

TED: Intellectual Property kills Creativity.

Me: I've been saying that for years.

[TheoThompson-Guldseth]

seems more like a criticism on capitalism than intellectual property

[supaswagg]

Because not being compensated/credited for my intellectual property hampers plagarists. Have continue to keep the best ideas to myself while I develop a better ways for myself to benefit from my intellect.

[rmartin]

If only I had insomnia, then this video might be useful.