CopyLEFT

 I support the fair use of ideas. I am a CopyLEFT. I believe the artist has the right and free speech to create from the old, remix it, change it, and use it in their own creative process. Artists in painting, drawing, and even writing have done it for years. Walt Disney did it as well. It was the Disney corporation that decided to make sure that never happened again, by restricting the fair use within the public domain and putting copyright on all of its characters and stories. Other corporations do it too. Well, I support the CC and the fair use of original works respectfully and by respectfully, I mean giving credit where credit is due but also building upon that work within your own creative process.

When we start evolving in electronics and technology and are able to share files between individuals, the consumer become a distributor at not cost to those who are receiving the files. It is a never-ending cycle. We create something to share with others, it is part of the process of creation. If a musician wants to make a living off of what they create and the corporations share it with the public domain, they are making a profit off of it and gaining a income from it. But by sharing it to the public domain, they are essentially creating the problem they wish to control. It is ludicrous to think you can control something that is out of control with policies and laws that cannot be enforced. And because technology is building itself from past creations, it is a medium allowing the problem to continue. It is crazy to think that copyright infringement means we are thieves, pirates, and stealing another person's work for our own personal gain. We are sharing it with other people who supposed should pay for it themselves. It is greedy corruption. However, we are not stealing it, we are remixing it, sharing it, just like we share ideas and opinions through conversation. If we didn't want the idea to soak with another intelligent being who could possible use it to benefit themselves, we should just stitch our mouths shut and shut up. We are social creatures, we need to share, we need to exchange ideas and information for the sake of building upon it. It is evolution. We talk about how there is no originality, well taking two ideas and putting them together is original because within its process it is creative, it is an new innovative idea building upon an old product. It is not saying that we don't masturbate when we all have done it at least once in our lives. We cannot control it because it is natural. We do it because are suppose to. It is part of who we are as human beings, as individuals.

So, if anyone wanted to take my ideas, my artwork, and remix it or use it within their own work, build from it because they are inspired by it, all I have to say is, give credit where credit is due, respectfully. If you are stealing it because you wish to use it against me, then that is piracy. You are don't it in spite of me based on some negative reason you may have. If you wish to share it or build from it, then I am glad I have inspired someone with my work. I am glad I was able to add to the creative process to help others build within their own originality. I don't care how you do it but please if you do be respectful and either tell me first, ask, or give credit that you were inspired by me. That is all I ask. I am not going to stop posting my artwork online, I am not going to stop being inspired by others within my own creative process. I am going to support your creative process by allowing you to share it in your own way. CC it if you need to. If you put a CC by it, then I don't know you shared it or you wish for it to be shared and to be honest, I may do that as well because I will not be a hypocrite to my beliefs and opinions. I do it too. I won't sit here and say that I don't take ideas from others and use them respectfully in my own way. I am not that kind of person. I will express it in my own way if I can and give credit where credit is due. I expect them same courtesy from you.