D_055 Copyleft Architecture: An Experiment in Proprietary Transparency (Define Your Space)

Carmina Sanchez . I enjoyed reading the manifesto, it was smart and funny. The site is not very interactive in keeping with subject.

Chris Sharples . A technique and effect based approach rather than an architecture grounded in style and form is going to give more wieght to the argument for "copyleft". Architecture can greatly benefit from this kind of information exchange.

Mahesh Senagala . Ha! Now this is the discourse that is very timely and essential. Apparently the US copyright law has a more progressive and broader definition of what constitutes a work of architecture!! The paper, in effect, deconstructs the idea of copyright and points out the arbitrary lines we draw between building and publishing and a host of other things out of "cover the butt" professional anxiety. This paper/work is definitely more pertinent in the DDE context than outside of it.