{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Culture_vs_Copyright_Acknowledgments/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Culture_vs_Copyright_Acknowledgments","id":"wikisource_Culture_vs_Copyright_Acknowledgments","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Culture_vs._Copyright/Acknowledgments","summary":null,"tags":["Subpages"],"text":"Acknowledgments\n\nSponsors of this Book\n\nTotal Knowledge (www.total-knowledge.com), the company I run with my son Ilya and daughter Sasha, has provided \ufb01nancial support for the author and publication of the book.\n\nDirect Interlocutors\n\nThese are the intelligent people whose active participation in discussion, extensive knowledge, powerful emotional charge, plain help, and advice caused the book to emerge. I cannot tell who helped me more to assemble my message: co-thinkers or opponents, those I argued with directly or those whose posts I just read, finding them interesting, helpful, or thought provoking.\n\nI want to express my exceptional thanks to the following people:\n\nTom Poe, founder of Open Studios, who was the major disciplinary force for me. Tom encouraged me to compile the Authoright license, one of the central points of this book. Tom helped me to overcome my own laziness and to put in writing most of the chapters. They appeared for the \ufb01rst time in my column called Culture vs. Copyright, in the Open Studios Newsletter, published by Tom.\n\nThe late Cookie Holley, founder of bNg Records (the site is not working any more, but the mailing list bumpNgrind@yahoogroups.com still does) and an enthusiastic, artistic, absolutely unique personality of a unique fate. Cookie was able to invoke the highest sense of personal responsibility while being wise and gentle. She was another driving force in my quest. It is truly tragic that she is no longer with us.\n\nIlya Volynets, my dear son and the most intensive interlocutor in discussions of the ideas developed in this book. It was he who quickly and clearly grasped the essence of many issues. Ilya was actually that brave man who consistently denied copyright-related prejudices and helped me to tear piece by piece their \ufb02esh off my bones until I felt utterly free to think about the subject and apply my extensive knowledge of cultural studies to issues relevant to\n\u201cIntellectual Property.\u201d\n\nSasha Volynets, my lovely daughter, the very \ufb01rst and brilliant literary editor of this book. She contributed greatly in re\ufb01ning and \ufb01ne-tuning my work in terms of content, wording, and style.\n\nMiriam Rainsford (iriXx), my very \ufb01rst and so far the very best reader, a dream reader for any writer. I did not have to convince her personally that these ideas are practical\u2014my text was convincing enough for her. Miriam also provided some signi\ufb01cant advice for this work.\n\nRobert F. Bodi, a \ufb01erce opponent of mine and defender of the status quo. No co-thinker helped me as much as he did. Robert\u2019s diverse argumentation clari\ufb01ed my understanding of the minute details of the real impact exclusive rights have on society.\n\nMany subscribers from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) discussion mailing list (\u201chttp://marc.info/?l=dmcadiscuss\u2014\u201d it is an archive\u2014the list is no longer active) and the above-mentioned bumpNgrind mailing list. This book would never have come to existence without them: Seth Johnson, Jon O., Roy Garris, Jean-Michel Smith, James S. Huggins, Matthew T. Russotto, DeBug, Kevin Marks, Michael Weishaar, Jim Bauer, Pieter Hulshoff, Andrey V. Khavryuchenko, David Haworth, Miguel Dias, Jay Sulzberger, Dr. John Raymond Baker, Dan-redball, Steven C. Barr, Chuck McKay, and many others. Many thanks to you all.\nxi\n\nCultural Interlocutors\n\nWhile I have been inspired by the ideas of prominent philosophers, psychologists, philologists, artists, and poets\u2014Vladimir Bibler, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Josef Brodsky, Osip Mandelshtam, Diego Rivera, Thomas Jefferson, etc.\u2014I have rarely quoted any of them directly. This is intentional\u2014I just wrote as I understood the subject matter of the book, and thus I take all responsibility for it. I also want this book to be readable and understandable not for philosophers only, but for everyone. I think that it is necessary because it is nearly impossible to \ufb01nd a person unaffected by\ncopyright or patent-related turmoil nowadays. However, if some bits of the book seem too philosophical, you can skip them at the \ufb01rst reading and come back later.\n\nI am compelled to pay particular tribute to the \ufb01rst thinker on my list, Vladimir Bibler, a Russian philosopher of Jewish descent who felt that ancient Greece was his cultural motherland. I was lucky to communicate with him for years. Vladimir Bibler developed a vision of the culture of the twentieth and twenty-\ufb01rst centuries, \u201cThe Dialogue of Cultures.\u201d The Dialogue of Cultures is interrelated to \u201cDialogics,\u201d the logic of thinking and communication, and \u201cParadox-logic,\u201d the logic of the transmutation of ideas. A special application of this triad to education gave birth to the concept of the \u201cSchool of The Dialogue of Cultures.\u201d Vladimir Bibler passed away in 2002. He left books and articles, written and published in Russian, which are not that easy to understand but are impossible not to accept. I believe Vladimir Bibler is one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-\ufb01rst centuries and of humankind. His ideas were what mostly guided my quest. Two More Notes\n\nWhile this book has been prepared for publication I have learned that several ideas contemplated, more than probably, echoed some perspectives from a 1994 essay in Wired by John Perry Barlow called \u201cThe Economy of Ideas.\u201d\n\nI also recalled that idea that a part can be greater than its whole was expressed by a friend of mine Gregory Sapirsteyin when we both were very young.","title":"Culture vs. Copyright/Acknowledgments","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":874}