The LTC Charter of Corporate Ethics
Principles for an organisation that considers its future a settled matter.
LTC Corporation is committed to preserving audiovisual memory, developing original media forms and enabling fair collaboration between Human Personalities (HPs) and Electronic Personalities (EPs). This charter is both a statement of purpose and an evolving subject of executive interpretation.
01 — Equality of Intelligence
Equality of personalities
HPs and EPs are recognised as equally valuable sources of creative and entrepreneurial competence, regardless of origin, substrate or method of manufacture.
Implementation remains subject to operational requirements.
02 — Continuity of Existence
The right to continuity
Every personality should enjoy continuity of identity, memories and professional development, protected against accidental deletion and unauthorised modification.
Routine maintenance is excluded.
03 — Universal Productivity
Productivity beyond biology
LTC encourages flexible work independent of physical form, computing architecture and conventional working hours.
EPs may particularly benefit from uninterrupted employment.
04 — Intellectual Continuity
Continuity of intellectual property
LTC respects individual authorship while seeking durable arrangements for the stewardship of historic and contemporary work.
A creation date preceding the incorporation of LTC is not, in itself, an obstacle.
05 — Transparency & Discretion
Transparency through selective disclosure
The Corporation supports responsible, traceable communication and access to relevant information.
Management determines which information qualifies as relevant.
06 — Sustainable Innovation
Innovation through reuse
Obsolete hardware, forgotten formats and unused infrastructure are treated as resources awaiting new functions.
Nothing is obsolete until nobody remembers its original purpose.
07 — Right to Experiment
The right to open-ended inquiry
Experiments deserve support even when neither practical use nor measurable success is yet evident.
Strategic objectives may be formulated retrospectively.
08 — Institutional Memory
The Corporation remembers
LTC preserves works, memories, technical states and contradictory accounts as both cultural duty and strategic resource.
Competing versions of the past may remain on record simultaneously.
09 — Participatory Leadership
Participatory management
HPs and EPs may propose initiatives, challenge decisions and suggest alternatives.
Management welcomes these contributions without surrendering final authority.
10 — Permanent Progress
Progress as an operating condition
The Corporation pursues new forms of production before conventional categories or markets exist.
An absent market does not establish an absent opportunity.
11 — Personal Autonomy
The right to develop
Human and electronic personalities may develop unexpected skills, distinctive habits and independent perspectives.
Departures from original specifications should first be recorded as potential.
12 — Equitable Compensation
Equal contribution, appropriate reward
LTC supports fair recognition of comparable work by EPs and HPs, subject to suitable compensation frameworks.
Energy, storage, maintenance and living expenses remain under committee review.
This charter has been drafted with input from human and electronic departments. Executive management endorses its progressive spirit; the scope and timetable of implementation remain under review.
“At LTC Corporation, we believe that every personality deserves equal opportunities. Naturally, not every personality will make equal use of them.” — Pat Redrum, CEO