RE: [projectvrm] An author's personal IP store in the cloud

["Crosbie Fitch" < >]

> From: Dean Landsman

> Substitute "musician" for "author" and there are numerous attempts at 
> doing just that.

One can also substitute 'intellectual property' for 'personal data'.


> The pervading problem is that once the material (writings or music or 
> whatever) becomes accessible, it falls prey to duplication. 

The revolutionary insight that has been missed until relatively recently is
to observe that personal data is 'private'. Similarly, one can also observe
that an author's or musician's intellectual work is their 'private'
intellectual property. Once it is recognised that such information is
'private' it then becomes obvious as to how it can be controlled.


> Photoshop experts can deftly undo most, if not all,watermarks.

Ah, but they won't be able to undo the 'privacy' bit (which will be set on
all personal data & IP), it'll be hard-wired into the Internet.


> Other software to remove watermarks or encryption also render them 
> useless.  Screen capture, video/audio capture, and then distribution via 
> torrents, or all other manner of duplication and distribution exist.

Unlike teenage hackers, merchants have no incentive to develop software to
thwart their customers' 'privacy', in fact it is primarily the inherently
scrupulous and conscientious merchant that is driving the movement to
provide 'privacy' to their customers.

 
> In the music example there are some artists who have successfully 
> prolonged their careers using what is often characterized as outreach to 
> the long tail, meaning their fans, ever so dispersed throughout the 
> planet.  Janis Ian, for one.  There are writers who charge for access to 
> their sites or sell eBooks or both.

Well, soon, given technological control over their 'private' personal data
and intellectual property, many more artists will be able to resume their
careers, let alone prolong them.


> In either case it is an uphill climb.

With 'private' personal stores held within the cloud, whether containing
personal data or intellectual property, it will be a downhill ski.

I can't wait!