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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