research, copyright & creative commons

Research, Copyright & Creative Commons

Mathias Klang @klang67

This is not an apology: My radical mood

Why bother?

One of the fundamental

characteristics of scholarly research is that it is created as a public good to facilitate inquiry and knowledge

Beware the metaphor

This is not a shopping cart

Fighting for our futures: stories from the e-book

Scholarly publication market

Public Funds

University Research University Libraries

Publishers

Shareholders

Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust

Culture is inevitable, copyright is not

Copyright is all about fixation

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

Technology 300 years ago…

Statute of anne 1710

Expanding rights

Oscar Wilde nr 18 av Napoleon Sarony

“entirely from his own mental conception, to which he gave visible form” ”useful, new, harmonious, characteristic, and graceful picture.”

THE SOCIAL

CENTURY

User generated content

Monopolies in copying & delivery systems

Don’t be greedyThe expansion of copyright to include more forms of

expression (may ultimately weaken copyright as a whole).

Modern copyright law

is fixed in the 1950s

“These are not the norms you’re looking for”

What copyright protects?

”VERKSHÖJD” BIRD RED SLICE by Koko (1984)

idea/expression dichotomy

Donald Duck av Walt Disney Arne Anka av Charlie Christensen

copying

digitalization

Analog / Digital

• Copy inferior• Limited nr of copies• Copying in real time• Cost

• There is no copy• Infinite nr• Timeless• Without cost

LIFE & DEATH OF

BUSINESS MODELS

What happened?

The tools of production

Myths we regulate by

EMPIRICAL proof cash NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION… But geeks are different?

PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS

And still we cling to the economic & creative myth

Paying for cultural production

The theoretically possible becomes the inevitable

The end of scarcity

“who told me” becomes more important than “who made it”. Sandra Snan

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

This is not a book

Changing the marketplace

How we consume

Market failures

Free speech & private censors

Lag of analogue rules

A workaround

History of Creative CommonsThe duct tape of copyright

Four limitations

Why should academics Share?

Sharing is caring

In a world of noise…

Swedish heritage board

3.5 years later

OMG!!!OMG!!!

How to License

Want more information?

More informationwww.iis.se/docs/copyright_copyleft.pdf

If bad stuff happens…

Case law

Germany 2011

Israel 2011: TA 3560/09, 3561/09, Avi Re'uveni v. Mapa inc.

Belgium 2010: 09-1684-A (Lichôdmapwa v. L'asbl Festival de Theatre de Spa)

The Netherlands, 2006: Curry v. Audax

Spain 2006: SGAE v. Fernandez

Cheats, nasty people, & evil corporations

#FAIL

Want more free stuff?

AUDIO

http://artistserver.com/http://ccmixter.org/http://free-loops.com/http://www.freesound.org/http://www.jamendo.com/en/http://www.jamglue.com/http://www.soundclick.com/http://www.tribeofnoise.com/http://librivox.org/

BILDER

http://animalphotos.info/a/http://carpictures.cc/cars/photo/http://www.compfight.com/http://creativity103.com/http://flickr.com/creativecommons/http://www.geograph.org.uk/http://photoeverywhere.co.uk/http://en.sevenload.com/

TEXT

http://www.intratext.com/http://www.travellerspoint.com/http://www.unearthtravel.com/http://www.wisdomcommons.org/http://wikipedia.org

VIDEO

http://blip.tv/http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://one.revver.com/http://youtube.com

Thank you.

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

www.digital-rights.net

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