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Information is correct,
knowledge is relevant Mathias Klang
@klang67
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…
Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media
TECHNOLOGY controls how and what we interact, create & THINK
AFFORDANCESspot the ethical dilemma?
STATUTE OF ANNE (1710)
Wheras printers, booksellers, and other persons, have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing... books, and other writings, without the consent
of the authors... to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families: For preventing therefore such practices for the
future, and for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books…
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
Lag (1960) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk
LAG (1960) OM UPPHOVSRÄTT TILL LITTERÄRA OCH KONSTNÄRLIGA VERK
dead TRee as NORM
What’s protected?
Almost everything!
”VERKSHÖJD” BIRD RED SLICE by Koko (1984)
idea/expression dichotomy
Donald Duck by Walt Disney Arne Anka av Charlie Christensen
A ridiculously brief history of computing
Generation zero
hollerith
World wide web (an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)
The digital is the original & everything is copy
Interfaces of knowledge
LIFE & DEATH OF
BUSINESS MODELS
Why pirate? Because we can? Because we must? Because we don’t care?
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digitalization
Analog / Digital
• Copy inferior• Limited nr of copies• Copying in real time• Cost
• There is no copy• Infinite nr• Timeless• Without cost
two dominant truths
1. No cash, No Creation
2. Everything Is property
Two incredible & strange ideas… that WORKED
STALLMAN PROVED EMPIRICALLY THAT ECONOMIC RETURNS WERE NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION…
But geeks are different?
WALES PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS
Yet we still cling to the analogue myths.
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Change!
Sociotechnical change (rip Eugene Polley)
Monotask queuing
Not knowing
Waiting by THE phone
Only 30 kg
Limitless 303 grams
"Laws in Japan are Tatemae - beautiful things - that have no real importance. Important things are neither seen nor written down.”
Professor Lilian Edwards
Sharing is caring
Swedish heritage board
3.5 years later
OMG!!!OMG!!!
More informationwww.iis.se/docs/copyright_copyleft.pdf
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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