+1

+1 is a cut 'n' paste based project.

The goal is to make expressive creations that includes major, basic copyrighted aspects of one or more preexisting works.
i.e. the unauthorized use of material which is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights.


The freedom to create is an essential human right. Today, this right has been deeply eroded. Right to create is limited by patent, copyright systems and property claims.

We have created technology that is encouraging a culture of intellectual sharing and all anyone wants to talk about is rights.
The cut-and-paste functionality of our computers allows anyone to take anything from anyone and use it in their own creations.

We see that as positive and encourage this kind of behavior.

Property is, in fact, a legal fiction created by extending the symptoms of possession beyond possession itself.
As such, intellectual property is as real and valid a concept as any other form of property, so long as one realizes that property is not a fundamental right but a legal fiction created to foster convenience in dealing with the interaction of possession or occupation and the right of self defense.

Outside of the realm of individually explicit contracts, there's no ethical justification for a system of law wherein abstract concepts, or their expression, are the target of monopolistic practices. The product of the intellect is only ethically protected by proprietary interest while it is a secret and not released in the public domain.

We stand alone among creatures as the prolific creators and inventors on this planet. We create things that never before existed, and on a whim can produce descriptions of things never before imagined. We spend the majority of our lives surrounded by our creations and most of us labor in the work of creation daily..
If it can be argued that animals are capable of creation, the argument would have to admit that they have such a small capacity in this regard as to barely merit mention.

Those with religious sensibilities believes that one of Divinity's most defining and lasting attributes is that it created this world. An echo of this divine capability is reflected in us and in our ability to create.

Those with more secular sensibilities almost universally recognize that nature's first law is to create and to reproduce. Evolution spins ever upward towards new creation, and our world favors creatures who can survive by adaptation over those who survive by innate instinct. Adaptation through learning and technology is inseparable from the ability to create, and no species has this capacity so much as ours.

Why then, do we grant monopolies on creation under our current system?
Why do we allow one person to use an idea to create new inventions, and disallow all others to use it in their work?

Are these restrictions really necessary?

Releases

Pink bible club - 2008


Anabolske stereolyde - 2005

Single tracks

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