research, copyright & creative commons
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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 [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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