tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post6982015936603341678..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: King Tut's tomb: conservation or replication (but don't forget the "aura")?Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-36601597428575091052017-02-07T13:17:49.714+00:002017-02-07T13:17:49.714+00:00I am reminded of how one of my historic axes is co...I am reminded of how one of my historic axes is conserved in the palace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Somewhere in the 1700s, the handle was "restored" because it had decayed too much - so a new handle was crafted and the axe head fitted on it. Later, somewhere in the 1960s, the discrepancy in deterioration between the handle and the axe head was noticed, and a replica of the axe head was lovingly crafted and fitted on the "historic handle". There you go: the axe of Vercingetorix. Ergo, when restoring, please also document what you're restoring and how.<br /><br />Still: great archeology museum. Recommended. Would conquer again.Vercingetorixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-3892361724347278692017-02-05T14:49:28.288+00:002017-02-05T14:49:28.288+00:00I was struck by one thought on this "aura&quo...I was struck by one thought on this "aura" angle.<br /><br />The "aura" is necessarily lacking for any modern work that is created, in the original, in a digital format.<br /><br />Digital replication of a digital work is EXACT - and necessarily includes any notion of "aura," because by being produced entirely digitally, the work itself is created in a medium that is self-contained (the digits, and the digits alone - and any of the traditional "fuzzy" interactions of "time and space" are absent from the work).<br /><br />This is a crux of the "coming of age" of copyright in the digital arena that we have already seen (and the hint of the coming of age for patents as well with advancing of the "factory in the home" of 3D printing.THE US anonnoreply@blogger.com