Post on 01-Jul-2015
Empowerment or destruction?Copyright, Creative Commons & Technology
Post och Inrikes Tidningar (1645)
Haarlems Dagblad (1656)
Lets all blame technology!politics, economics, law, society…
2006User generated content
“the real consequence of the Web 2.0 revolution is less culture, less reliable news, and a chaos of useless information.” p. 16
“this celebration of the amateur is having a corroding effect on the truth accuracy, and reliability of the information we get.” p. 63
2007
What is an amateur?
But first technological change – why it matters
Beating time & Geography, killing memory
Plato – The phaedrus (370 BC)
“…you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.”
Game changer: communication
Digitalization
Connectivity
Storage
Devices
Flickr
2000
2001
2002
2003 2005
2004 2006
Wikipedia
Blog
ger 1
999
Second Life
My Space
Skype
Digg
Ning
YouTube
Spotify
Google c:a 1998
2008
2007 2009
Farmville
iphone
WikileaksAngry Birds
Theoretical rights become inevitable
practice
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…
Modern copyright law
is fixed in the 1950s
“These are not the norms you’re looking for”
Statute of anne 1710
What happened?
2 dominant myths
1. No cash, No Creation
2. Everything Is property
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
Amateurs killing… what?
business models die
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Focus on crime, not creation
Suddenly copyright is a barrier to creation…
What to do?
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers”
69 jurisdictions
36 Languages
Armenian Belarusian Castellano Castellano (España) Català Deutsch Eesti English Esperanto français hrvatski Italiano Latviski Magyar Nederlands Người Việt/Tiếng Việt Norsk polski Português Português (BR) română srpski (latinica) Suomeksi svenska Türkçe čeština Ελληνικά Русский српски العربية ไทย ქართული 中文 ( 香港 ) 日本語 華語 ( 台灣 ) 한국어
four LIMITations
Why Share?
Sharing is caring
Swedish heritage board
Two years later
OMG!!!OMG!!!
How to License
Empowerment or destruction?
The genie is out of the bottle
Old models die
Elitism is a form of protectionism
When reality changes: Adapt or die
Thank you.
Information• All images from www.flickr.com (unless specifically stated)
• Image & licensing info in the notes section of slides
• Presentation licensed: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
• The presentation can be downloaded from: www.slideshare.net/klang
• More information about me: www.techrisk.se & www.digital-rights.net
• Mathias Klang. klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
CC Search
http://www.archive.org/index.phphttp://search.creativecommons.org/http://www.freebase.com/signin/http://www.google.com/advanced_searchhttp://www.spinxpress.com/getmediahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/http://search.yahoo.com/cc
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/http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
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
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