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I want my work to stay my work. I don't care if someone references it, but I do not want anyone changing or manipulating it, especially for their own gains. I mostly chose it to be noncommercial to stick it to the man, again because I don't want anyone else to profit from it. The work should stay mine and I wrote it with a certain viewpoint and for a certain reason and I don't want anyone changing that. Even if I write something else at a later time, I still want what I previously said still on record, because that was my view at the time.
I don't think that the idea of property, expression, identity, movement and context are completely removed from physical boundaries on the internet. There is still property ownership for ideas. I understand his way of thinking though. Because everything is electronic and not actually on paper, and because everything is accessible from almost everywhere, there is almost a feeling that information sharing is just a mind exercise and has no tangible connection to the "real world." It is almost as if we are living in the Matrix and that at some point Morpheous and Neo will come crashing through the wall and hand us a red pill that will fully enlighten us.
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OK, I respect that. You want to protect the link back to you and to your investment in the work. Your point about the link back to your memory is particularly salient in this way - do we face a world where total remixing means a kind of loss of memory?
While I don't believe in property ownership of ideas (or "intellectual property" I guess?), I'm in favor of your right to keep your work your own. Especially in terms of the prevention of someone else's capability to profit from your original creation.
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