creative commons: technology, norms & creation

Creative Commons: Technology, Norms & CreationMathias Klang: @klang67

Culture is inevitable, copyright is not

Copyright is all about fixation

Fixation is all about technology & social norms

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

Modern copyright law

is fixed in the 1950s

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

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

Law fighting technological & social inevitability

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business models die

The theoretically possible becomes the inevitable

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

2006

"Out of this anarchy… what was governing the infinite monkeys now inputting away on the Internet was the law of digital Darwinism, the survival of the loudest and most opinionated.”

Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur (2007)

Normalizing the abnormal

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!!!

Does it work?License or contractDifferent jurisdictions?

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

How to License

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

Resources

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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