Artists and Content Creators need to consider the implications...

02/24/21 - Adobe has joined other big-tech companies in the creation of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) the goal of which is to create tools which will address 'disinformation' online. Unless 'disinformation' is defined and governed by the people, then these tools are aimed at providing the few the ability to censor any dissenting opinion, programmatically.

Explained as a long term scalable, ecosystem-wide solution to provenance-based media authenticity, C2PA had used it's artistic expression to create elegant marketing parlance to mask technology that will reveal the EXACT path of transmission of 'assets' deemed unsuitable. This portends consequences to those whose content is not determined to be of "high-integrity." At first blush this sounds as though they are working to ensure protection of asset copyrights, but read further and BG clarifies the aim of this coalition.

As artists (and in the famous words of Jeffrey Lewbowski) 'this cannot stand, man!' Artistic expression takes many forms and there is danger in leaving what constitutes expression to the multi-nationals.

"The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state… In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role…"

~ JFK ~

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