Hi.

I'm writing to you guys because you've been the most active recently on the copyright thread of the Against Monopoly website, and as I'm only an occasional visitor, I'm not sure how else to send a heads-up to the site.

Anyway, with apologies for this unsolicited email, I thought you might like to know about these batik makers in Solo. The point is that here's a community of artists who are thriving without copyright, and without even resorting to Creative Commons or any other legalistic solutions. Of course, they're now starting to get a lot of pressure -- but hey, wouldn't it be great if their inspiring attitude could be emulated (and encouraged and expanded and exported) rather than suppressed...??

The story surfaced for me in this Boing Boing post

Original Jakarta Globe story here

And yes, I've blogged about it.

I hope this is of interest to you. Please do with this information as you will. Keep up the good work.

Best,

Paul Barlow