Сopyright and digital rights

Challenges for information society

Michael Volchekpirates.bymediabarcamp.com

Copyright

Landscape

•Books, films, music, software, games, photos, pictures, clips, advertisement

•Science, medicine

•Media is everywhere

Right of property

• Expresses property (possesion, arrangement, usage)

Licenses

• Authors, rightholders, users

History

• 1491 - Venice

• 1710 - England

• 1787 - United States

• 1828 - The Russian Empire

• 1886 - The Berne Convention

• 1989 - United States

• 1990 - China

• 1994 - TRIPS

Interests

• 50-100 years

• in Belarus - 50 years, in Europe - 70, in Russia -70, in USA - 100

• Protection of huge investments

Copyright nature – centralization

Analog and digital signals

Digit

• Mobile connection

• Internet

Digital features

• Copy

• Modify

• Use

• Distribute

• Participation in decision making

• Create

• Self expression

• Privacy and Anonymity

• Association - community, socnetwork

Digital Communication

Digital rights

?!

• The universal human right (The Decalration)

In the rest world

• Iceland

• Estonia

• Finland

• Spain

• Greece

• Internet is as right

State

• communicates with citizens through Internet "state services"

State

• gathers and holds information about citizens with Internet

• services providers (including hosting domain)

• or legislative evidence

State

• regulates the Internet, it means consider Internet as object of right

• Decrees, resolutions

State

• accepts cryptography defence tools as right

• i.e. electronic digital signature

Content: trends

• Content is everywhere

• Copyright effects on it

• Liquid forms (synthesis)

• Anonimity of content

• Multiple author

• Privatisation of Public Domain

Common

Copyright extends its effect on the universal human rights

Problem 1

• Article 12 Invasion on privacy, confidentiality of correspondence.

• The right to privacy and anonymity.

Problem 2

• Article 19 Freedom to receive and distribute information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers -

• to copy,

• to distribute

Problem 3

• Article 26 The right to education,

• to copy,

• to modify,

• to use

• to research

Problem 4

• Article 27.1 Participate in the cultural life

... to participate in thescience-technical progress and get its benefits –

• self expression,

• right to development,

• creation

• to copy, to modify

Problem 5

• Article 27.2 Protection of the moral and material interests of the author

Internet future

• as a tool (state institutions) - partly copyright

• as the environment (public) - no copyright

• the scope of the market (commercial interests) - copyright

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