Contemporary art/Draft

This is a draft! BLAH!

For who is this document?
Contemporary, living artists who make work now. Young creators, mid-career or established - we hope to reach all.

We try to be medium neutral: painting, video, music, software... although each medium and discipline has its own challenges, which might need to be addressed separately at some point. But this document is a first start.

A guide for dealing with digital representations in a world where online is default
We assume that you want to work *with* the reality of the digital world, not against it.

It is a guide for artists that embrace and take advantage of the reality of digital distribution (compare with some wording used for EU copyright reform, I found that pretty good and to the point -Sandra Fauconnier (talk) 12:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC))

Color-coded table: options and consequences
Imagine that the word 'Green' is replaced by the actual color. Etcetera.

Separate boxes? with explanations for
 * why Wikipedia is the way it is
 * description of current consequences of using a collecting society (balanced, neutral tone)
 * de facto user behaviour (people just share) vs whether it's legal or not (complex stuff...)

A few examples
perhaps? not so much of artists - that's for the section below - but concrete cases of specific reproductions of work that are being published online by people


 * a famous video artist doesn't publish his work online because of the desire to remain exclusive and the fear of piracy. But then, people go to exhibitions with his works, and they record his works with their smartphones. They publish these videos on YouTube. The works, which were originally VERY beautiful, now look like crap. But at least fans can see something. (this is an actual example; actually I know several very prominent ones. Mentioning names is probably tricky? ...... Sandra Fauconnier (talk) 12:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC))


 * the popularity of sites like pinterest, artstack, kapsul, art.sy - which are awesome at promoting art, but are copyright quagmires


 * counter-example would be nice: of a reproduction willingly put under free license by an artist, which allows very nice legal use in an interesting online project

Frequently Asked Questions and Remarks
Inspired by the questions in the anti-NC doc, which I think are great and contain some good answers that we can re-use.

I really don't want to bother with this stuff
Consequences of the default 'doing nothing'

User perspective
Benevolent blogger, a Pinterest user, student writing a paper...?

Confessions
(shep?) etc? (artists)

Contacts

 * OpenGLAM
 * GLAM-Wiki
 * CC

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