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   Crosbie Fitch

   February 18, 2008 at 6:14 am

   We are all artists. To be human is to be an artist.

   Just as we are all born equal, so we are all born artists, and no artist should be given a privilege of suspending the liberty of another.

   By all means revere ourselves as artists and all of our art in culture, but what art we artists produce from our private space to publish in mankind’s cultural commonwealth belongs to all – to use, perform, reproduce, and build upon as any of us please.

   Such liberty threatens no truth of authorship, no privacy of property (whether material or intellectual), and least of all life, which only becomes the more enriched.

   Abolish copyright.
   Abolish patent.

   These are the remaining suspensions of all artist’s liberty that must be undone before we can consider ourselves truly emancipated from the shackles of commerce in our freedom.

   The Artist’s Hippocratic Oath:
   “I will not accept the enslavement of my fellow man, nor any imposition upon his liberty, as reward for the publication of my art”

   This is a work of free culture.
   It respects all artists equally: those whose work I build upon, myself, and those who build upon my work.
   I hope some day you’ll join us.

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   Sydney Searls

   December 24, 2009 at 4:52 pm

   I am a direct decendent of the Niles Searls to whom you refer. My brother, in fact is Niles Addison Searls. Just thought I would share. Thank you.

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