Re: <nettime> 6th century hactivist

["Geneva J. Anderson" <geneva@iscweb.com>]

>trial and ended with Dermitt's famous verdict: "To every cow it's calf, to
>every book it's copy."
>
>(Does a biological approach to copies differ from a technological
>(mechanical) approach?  Is this about the authorization of products or
>their distribution? And who cashes the cheque?)

And if the calf was cloned from some discarded hair?

The idea of progeny of the human mind still rings in courtrooms across our
land (I'm in California), but bear in mind the vast gulf between the
European view and the American view, with which you undoubtedly are
familiar but which is often too easy to minimize: in Europe, writings are
the expression of the author's personality, and the relationship between a
man and his word inviolate; in America, it's just another commodity for
sale. 

Geneva



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