Intellectual property and multimodal content have been around forever. I live in the Pacific Northwest where the tribes each own stories that only they can retell. The characters, their representations and other elements of their stories are all vested with the same IP interest regardless of mode of expression.
Intellectual property and multimodal content have been around forever. I live in the Pacific Northwest where the tribes each own stories that only they can retell. The characters, their representations and other elements of their stories are all vested with the same IP interest regardless of mode of expression.
It was like this in ancient Greece where they would invent gods like Apollo as marketing ventures. They would write the story, the one of Apollo notably has him traveling the Aegean visiting cities where future pilgrims might reside. Hey, call out to Columbus, Ohio! They built a theme park with a temple, gardens and rituals. There could be other temples to Apollo, but the primary site controlled the IP which included the stories, written, spoken or acted, representations in various media and so on.
You can argue that a lot of those stories were mediocre, and that mediocrity flowed from their base creation in political ambition and pious greed. You may even be right. Not all political and religious art is particularly good. Even less of it resonates with modern audiences. Hollywood has never made a good version of the Popul Vuh, the Gilgamesh saga or any of the Norse sagas for that matter.
Still, there's nothing hard to understand once one has definitions in hand.
I don’t think it’s quite the same thing. I’ll agree that, in Antiquity, someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, something the Ancient Greeks definitely had, would concoct a story that Apollo or Hermes or whatever god or goddess, was seen at some particular location, where a temple would be built. If you pilgrim leave your offerings, the god or goddess will be beneficent towards you. People made money from such endeavours and still do. However, Apollo or Artemis or Hera were not the IP of anyone.
Why weren't they intellectual property? They had a clear owner even after they were co-opted by the Romans who added their own layers. There were enforced restrictions on their use. There was an official canon, also enforced.
I'm curious as to what the differences that disqualify them from being considered intellectual property.
Intellectual property and multimodal content have been around forever. I live in the Pacific Northwest where the tribes each own stories that only they can retell. The characters, their representations and other elements of their stories are all vested with the same IP interest regardless of mode of expression.
It was like this in ancient Greece where they would invent gods like Apollo as marketing ventures. They would write the story, the one of Apollo notably has him traveling the Aegean visiting cities where future pilgrims might reside. Hey, call out to Columbus, Ohio! They built a theme park with a temple, gardens and rituals. There could be other temples to Apollo, but the primary site controlled the IP which included the stories, written, spoken or acted, representations in various media and so on.
You can argue that a lot of those stories were mediocre, and that mediocrity flowed from their base creation in political ambition and pious greed. You may even be right. Not all political and religious art is particularly good. Even less of it resonates with modern audiences. Hollywood has never made a good version of the Popul Vuh, the Gilgamesh saga or any of the Norse sagas for that matter.
Still, there's nothing hard to understand once one has definitions in hand.
I don’t think it’s quite the same thing. I’ll agree that, in Antiquity, someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, something the Ancient Greeks definitely had, would concoct a story that Apollo or Hermes or whatever god or goddess, was seen at some particular location, where a temple would be built. If you pilgrim leave your offerings, the god or goddess will be beneficent towards you. People made money from such endeavours and still do. However, Apollo or Artemis or Hera were not the IP of anyone.
Why weren't they intellectual property? They had a clear owner even after they were co-opted by the Romans who added their own layers. There were enforced restrictions on their use. There was an official canon, also enforced.
I'm curious as to what the differences that disqualify them from being considered intellectual property.