The IP Generation
If you take nothing else away from this article, remember this idea: In a capitalist economy, artificial scarcity creates the conditions for discovering culture’s true market value.
Cherie Hu • Digital music’s new drop culture
projects like Invisible Seattle and Loot prove that inventive and imaginative r
esults can emerge from collaboration, producing works that defy easy categorization and commercialization.
Consumers don’t need to fully reject franchise offerings, but perhaps they can find creative reprieve and representation within worlds that they can contribute to.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
or an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enormous control over things like search results, or app stores, or ad platforms, or payment systems. Going back to the more free-for-all nature of the Nineties internet could mean we see a proliferation ... See more
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
8. Intellectual property will become less defensible in the short term but it is still cultural gold. From “my kid could do that” to “right click and save,” new media from the early 20th century onward has been poorly received. As W. David Marx writes of NFTs in Dirt, “whether or not this particular NFT bubble bursts, we should take them seriously ... See more