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## context

please visit https://folk.pubpub.org/

## note

* [ ] seal as folklaw *consensus-ad-idem* alternative
* [ ] signature economy as folk mnemonic

folk as public good https://otherinter.net/research/positive-sum-worlds/

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### Mission statement? One-pager?

A working group of coders, lawyers, artists, musicians, academics exploring…

### Manifesto

- human creative collaboration
- how do we build on top of each other
- how to humans share their ways of being/their creativity (what are the "folk ways" vs "what is copyright")
- How do we collaborate more
- What are some of the primitives (memetic history)
- folk as an analogy for open-sorce coding
- oral traditions/things that aren't/weren't written down
- how do we decide on our shared fictions? shared languages? How do we agree on what memes mean.
- Music covers - derivatives like memes
- Looking to create a set of tools/systems enabiling us to build upon the work of others
- folk music/pre recording - was able to freely build upon itself - continue to iterate upon itself freely
- Cultural primitives are a mechanisms for understanding ourselves

### Blog/Newsletter

- how do we curate this - proposals?
- email form for newsletter
- Blog that takes inspo from Other Internet
- Newsletter that links to our own work and external research - Like MusicX maybe
- Podcast?
- Need to finish the manifesto first

#### Fran brainstorm
Music is a collaborative art form. Our creativity is built in context and fueled by our sonic environments. Even the most personal work is a collaboration that, consciously or unconsciously, takes inspiration from our past: the things we've heared on the radio, the LPs we've played, the concerts we've seen, the songs that have gone viral on tiktok, the music in our workplace, Spotify’s algorithmically-selected music, the songs from our childhood, the soundtracks to our favourite movies, commercials, the songs our friends have shared with us. Music is constantly building upon itself and being reimagined, reinterpreted, and imitated.

- folk music, an oral tradition

**From signature economies**

"So, ownership in digital economies is really about meaningful signatures. Focusing on how we make meaning, rather than who possesses which particular bit, can help us understand why shared state changes signed by many individuals are valuable. A signature is both irreducibly unique—your signature dish, signature tune, signature shot—and that which binds you contractually to a world beyond yourself. It is both singular and iterable. By this mark, I make my meaning, I memorialise my being a witness to this moment. But I do not do this in isolation: my meaning must be read by others in order for it to hold real value."

"Is ownership shifting from an ability to demonstrate control or possession to the ability to make collective meaning?"

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