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- The following additional provisions apply to furniture catalog contributions
- included as part of this product.
-
- Free Art License
-
- [ Copyleft Attitude ]
-
- version 1.2
-
- Preamble :
-
- With this Free Art License, you are authorised to copy, distribute and freely
- transform the work of art while respecting the rights of the originator.
-
- Far from ignoring the author's rights, this license recognises them and
- protects them. It reformulates their principle while making it possible for
- the public to make creative use of the works of art. Whereas current literary
- and artistic property rights result in restriction of the public's access to
- works of art, the goal of the Free Art License is to encourage such access.
-
- The intention is to make work accessible and to authorise the use of its
- resources by the greatest number of people: to use it in order to increase
- its use, to create new conditions for creation in order to multiply the
- possibilities of creation, while respecting the originators in according
- them recognition and defending their moral rights.
-
- In fact, with the arrival of the digital age, the invention of the Internet
- and free software, a new approach to creation and production has made its
- appearance. It also encourages a continuation of the process of experimentation
- undertaken by many contemporary artists.
-
- Knowledge and creativity are resources which, to be true to themselves, must
- remain free, i.e. remain a fundamental search which is not directly related
- to a concrete application. Creating means discovering the unknown, means
- inventing a reality without any heed to realism. Thus, the object(ive) of art
- is not equivalent to the finished and defined art object.
- This is the basic aim of this Free Art License: to promote and protect artistic
- practice freed from the rules of the market economy.
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- DEFINITIONS
-
- - The work of art :
- A communal work which includes the initial artwork as well as all subsequent
- contributions (subsequent originals and copies). It is created at the initiative
- of the original artist who, by this license, defines the conditions according
- to which the contributions are made.
-
- - The original work of art :
- This is the artwork created by the initiator of the communal work, of which
- copies will be modified by whosoever wishes.
-
- - Subsequent works :
- These are the additions put forward by the artists who contribute to the
- formation of the work by taking advantage of the right to reproduction,
- distribution and modification that this license confers on them.
-
- - The Original (the work's source or resource) :
- A dated example of the work, of its definition, of its partition or of its
- program which the originator provides as the reference for all future updatings,
- interpretations, copies or reproductions.
-
- - Copy :
- Any reproduction of an original as defined by this license.
-
- - The author or the artist of the original work of art:
- This is the person who created the work which is at the heart of the ramifications
- of this modified work of art. By this license, the author determines the conditions
- under which these modifications are made.
-
- - Contributor:
- Any person who contributes to the creation of the work of art. He is the author
- or the artist of an original art object resulting from the modification of a copy
- of the initial artwork or the modification of a copy of a subsequent work of art.
-
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-
- 1. AIMS
-
- The aim of this license is to define the conditions according to which you can
- use this work freely.
-
- 2. EXTENT OF THE USAGE
-
- This work of art is subject to copyright, and the author, by this license, specifies
- the extent to which you can copy, distribute and modify it.
-
- 2.1 FREEDOM TO COPY (OR OF REPRODUCTION)
-
- You have the right to copy this work of art for your personal use, for your friends
- or for any other person, by employing whatever technique you choose.
-
- 2.2 FREEDOM TO DISTRIBUTE, TO INTERPRET (OR OF REPRESENTATION)
-
- You can freely distribute the copies of these works, modified or not, whatever
- their medium, wherever you wish, for a fee or for free, if you observe all the
- following conditions:
- - attach this license, in its entirety, to the copies or indicate precisely where
- the license can be found,
- - specify to the recipient the name of the author of the originals,
- - specify to the recipient where he will be able to access the originals (original
- and subsequent). The author of the original may, if he wishes, give you the right
- to broadcast/distribute the original under the same conditions as the copies.
-
- 2.3 FREEDOM TO MODIFY
-
- You have the right to modify the copies of the originals (original and subsequent),
- partially or otherwise, respecting the conditions set out in article 2.2 , in the event
- of distribution (or representation) of the modified copy. The author of the original may,
- if he wishes, give you the right to modify the original under the same conditions
- as the copies.
-
- 3. INCORPORATION OF ARTWORK
-
- All the elements of this work of art must remain free, which is why you are not allowed
- to integrate the originals (originals and subsequents) into another work which would
- not be subject to this license.
-
- 4. YOUR AUTHOR'S RIGHTS
-
- The object of this license is not to deny your author's rights on your contribution.
- By choosing to contribute to the evolution of this work of art, you only agree to give
- to others the same rights with regard to your contribution as those which were granted
- to you by this license.
-
- 5. DURATION OF THE LICENCE
-
- This license takes effect as of your acceptance of its provisions. The fact of copying,
- distributing, or of modifying the work constitutes a tacit agreement. This license will
- remain in force for as long as the copyright which is attached to the work of art. If you
- do not respect the terms of this license, you automatically lose the rights that it confers.
- If the legal status to which you are subject makes it impossible for you to respect the
- terms of this license, you may not make use of the rights which it confers.
-
- 6. VARIOUS VERSIONS OF THE LICENCE
-
- This license may undergo periodic modifications to incorporate improvements by its
- authors (instigators of the "copyleft attitude" movement) by way of new, numbered
- versions.
-
- You will have the choice of accepting the provisions contained in the version under which
- the copy was communicated to you, or alternatively, to use the provisions of one of the
- subsequent versions.
-
- 7. SUB-LICENSING
-
- Sub-licenses are not authorized by the present license. Any person who wishes to make use
- of the rights that it confers will be directly bound to the author of the original work.
-
- 8. THE LAW APPLICABLE TO THIS CONTRACT
-
- This license is subject to French law.
-
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-
- DIRECTIONS FOR USE :
-
- - How to use the Free Art license?
-
- To benefit from the Free Art License, it is enough to specify the following on your
- work of art:
-
- [- A few lines to indicate the name of the work and to give an idea of what it is.]
- [- A few lines to describe, if necessary, the modified work of art and give the name of the author/artist.]
- Copyright ⌐ [the date] [name of the author or artist] (if appropriate, specify the names of the previous authors or artists)
- Copyleft: this work of art is free, you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art license.
- You will find a specimen of this license on the site Copyleft Attitude http://artlibre.org as well as on other sites.
-
- - Why use the Free Art license?
-
- 1 / to give the greatest number of people access to your work.
-
- 2 / to allow it to be freely distributed.
-
- 3 / to allow it to evolve by authorising its transformation by others.
-
- 4 / to be able, yourself, to use the resources of a work when it is under Free Art
- license: to copy, distribute or transform it freely.
-
- 5 / This is not all: because the use of the Free Art License is also a good way to take
- liberties with the marketing system generated by the dominant economy. The Free Art License
- offers a useful legal protocol to prevent abusive appropriation. It will no longer be possible
- for someone to appropriate your work, short-circuiting the creative process to make personal
- profit from it. Helping yourself to a collective work in progress will be forbidden, as will
- monopolising the resources of an evolving creation for the benefit of a few.
-
- The Free Art License advocates an economy appropriate for art, based on sharing, exchange and
- joyful giving. What counts in art is also and mostly what is not counted.
-
- - When to use the Free Art License ?
-
- It is not the goal of the Free Art License to eliminate copyright or author's rights. Quite
- the opposite, it is about reformulating the relevance of these rights while taking today's
- environment into account. It is about the right to freedom of movement, to free copying and
- to free transformation of works of art. The right to work in freedom for art and artists.
-
- 1 / Each time you want to use or put this right into practice, use the Free Art License.
-
- 2 / Each time you want to create works which can evolve and be freely copied, freely distributed
- and freely transformed: use the Free Art License.
-
- 3 / Each time you want to have the possibility of copying, distributing or transforming a work:
- check that it is under Free Art License. If it is not, you are liable to be breaking the law.
-
- - To which types of art can the Free Art License be applied?
-
- This license can be applied to digital as well as to non-digital art. It was born out of observation
- of the world of free software and the Internet, but its applicability is not limited to the digital
- media. You can put a painting, a novel, a sculpture, a drawing, a piece of music, a poem, an installation,
- a video, a film, a recipe, a CD-rom, a Web site, or a performance under the Free Art License, in short
- any creation which has some claim to be a work of art.
-
- This license has a history: it was born at the meeting " Copyleft Attitude " which took place at
- "AccΦs Local" and "Public" in Paris at the beginning of the year 2000. For the first time, it brought
- computer specialists and freeware activists together with contemporary artists and members
- of the art world.