Thursday, August 07, 2014

[dihrwqah] Public domain contest

Take a work, a masterpiece, in public domain and try to improve it, keeping it in the same medium, modifying no more than 49% of it so not an adaptation, then (this is key) republishing it into public domain.

It may be a very long time before anyone successfully improves it, but people are free to examine and build upon the failures of others.  Give prizes to those who succeed.

Perhaps github.

Captures the attitude toward art before copyright.

Can Beethoven's Ninth Symphony be improved? (According to Wikipedia, no less than Wagner and Mahler have tried.)

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