I seem to have so many ideas that dissappear as soon as I have them, or go away when I actually sit down to the computer to type. Maybe I'll get a dictaphone or something and always be making notes to myself in it like Norm McDonald. What about this: how much do people own advertising and media? I don't mean the corporations that own the assets and make these things, but rather regular people who are the targets of media and advertising. We do not have a choice about whether or not to listen to music or ads in public places, so do those things retain a right to have a copyright? Can an artist take these things and make them into something else themselves?

We all own the public space, it belongs to us by virtue of the fact that we all live in this country and pay taxes, et cetera. It also belongs to us in the sense that public space is just that, space so that all people can assemble and use this space. Yet we have so many rules governing how such space can be used that it ceases to really be public anymore. There must be rules to protect the other people using the space, but in a lot of ways we can use very little of our public space. The streets are only for driving, not baseball or hockey; parks are closed after dark and not a place for a party; you can't have open alcohol on the sidewalk or any other place that you walk in public. It does not seem like more spaces are really being opened up, so will there be a time that our use of public space is so restricted that our house is the only place that we have freedom (this is keeping in mind that there are many things you are not allowed to do in your own lawn). Ironically, people will be stuck within the confines of four walls to have real freedom.