The Unwritten Code: How Communities Rewrote Copyright

Podcast: Clown Cast · Joey Musselman

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

Folk musicians, jazz players, stand-up comedians, magicians, chefs, and game designers all work in creative fields where copyright is almost irrelevant. Instead, each community built its own unwritten legal system—rules about what copying is legitimate and what's theft, enforced by reputation and shaming rather than courts. Scholar Elizabeth Rosenblatt calls this 'IP's negative space.' We trace five established communities (folk, jazz, magic, comedy, cuisine) and their different boundaries, then land on game design: a sixth community still drawing its lines right now as sampling technology makes possible what hip-hop producers figured out decades ago. 00:00:00 - The question: what do...