Copyright Comic - An invitation to a Recension

An Invitation to a Rescension

The WIPO has produced a pedagogic comic book which introduces readers to the basics of copyright and why piracy is a crime. It is one of those rather typical documents which looks at 'educating' young readers about the harms of piracy. For those of us who believe that copyright has gone way out of control, it might be interesting to rework the comic or perhaps come up woth another one which spoofs this particular comic. You can have a look at the WIPO comic here.

Original Copyright Comic from WIPO Site

What is a Rescension
A re-telling, a word taken to signify the simultaneous existence of different versions of a narrative within oral, and from now onwards, digital cultures. Thus one can speak of a 'southern' or a 'northern' rescension of a myth, or of a 'female' or 'male' rescension of a story, or the possibility (to begin with) of Delhi/Berlin/Tehran 'rescensions' of a digital work.  The concept of rescension is contraindicative of the notion of hierarchy. A rescension cannot be an improvement, nor can it connote a diminishing of value. A rescension is that version which does not act as a replacement for any other configuration of its constitutive materials. The existence of multiple rescensions is a guarantor of an idea or a work's ubiquity. This ensures that the constellation of narrative, signs and images that a work embodies is present, and waiting for iteration at more than one site at any given time. Rescensions are portable and are carried within orbiting kernels within a space. Rescensions, taken together constitute ensembles that may form an interconnected web of ideas, images and signs.

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