[Rumori] U B U W E B :: New Resources Fall 2003

[Rick Prelinger]

>Well, our policy on UbuWeb is that if it's out of print, it's fair 
>game for us to post.
>We rarely ask permission -- if we did, we wouldn't have a collection 
>nearly as large as
>we do. Most times, however, artists who find their out of print work 
>on UbuWeb are
>thrilled that it's presented with great care, in a sympathetic 
>context; most times, they
>offer us more work for the site. However every once in a while there 
>is an artist who
>doesn't wish for her work to appear on UbuWeb. Always, without 
>question, we take the
files down immediately.


That's a principled policy.


>Oddly enough, all the c&d's have come from radical artists rooted in 
>60s ideals. Rick,
>they seem to be the ones who have the most trouble with new 
>distribution / sharing, tho
>one might assume from their practice (at least their practice of 
>several decades ago)
>that certain aspects of their utopian distributive / 
>dematerialization-of-the-object
>vision has become realized.

Interesting gap between theory and practice, isn't it?  I'd argue 
that generationally based points of view often trump theory and 
politics.  And the differences of opinion over intellectual 
"property" are, more than anything, generational.

Rick


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Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Archives    http://www.prelinger.com
P.O. Box 590622, San Francisco, Calif. 94159-0622 USA
footage at panix.com

Online film collection at Internet Archive: 
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php