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Three Models
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- No cultural phenomenon can be owned.
- Only a material thing with a cultural phenomenon inscribed within it can be owned.
- The cultural equivalent of physical stealing is lying.
- Cultural phenomena are produced in an individual mind or in the free communication among individuals.
- Culture, when governed according to its nature, rewards authors, publishers, and society as a whole to a much greater degree than under current law.
Hence, the main features determining Authoright are:
- No entity of any kind may control or regulate in any way the copying, sharing, distribution, performance or another public use of an idea, work of art or any other cultural phenomena.
- Most importantly, there must not be any restriction in the creation of derivatives or any other artistic use of a work.
- Every author has the eternal and inalienable right of attribution.
- An author may sell his works, but not his “rights.”
- A publisher or any other entity may pay an author for the right to be named his sponsor.
- No company, organization, or group entity of any kind or nature other than the actual author of a creative work may be considered the author.
- The source of a work must be attributed in every public use of the work.
- Any sponsor of an author, a single work or a single publication deserves attribution.
The full text of the Authoright can be found in the Addendum. Below the differences between models will be highlighted.
