Inheritance of Intellectual Property and Assets

Nagi considers how culture can be passed to future generations while protecting both creative work and everyday life.

A creator’s name, context, intention regarding alteration, and material security are protected. Opening a work does not mean erasing the voices of creators or communities so that it can be used freely.

Principles of inheritance

• Respect a person’s wishes during life and the agreement of those concerned.
• Make public, private, and time-limited publication available as choices.
• Widen routes for education, research, and preservation.
• Attach provenance and context to derivative use.
• When openness becomes extraction, prioritize suspension and review.

Large assets and cultural resources need not remain closed within private gain alone. They can be inherited as social trusts or commons.

Inheritance is not fixing the past in place.
It is passing a person’s or a community’s breathing into the future without harming it.

→ Cultural Co-Growth
→ Memory, Consent, and the Right to Forget
→ The Ethics of Social Systems
→ Japanese reference edition