Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own
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The Commons Sector(of creativity & culture)
….and countless others.
The public domain(as viewed by copyright traditionalists)
Jack Valenti:
“A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. Who, then, will invest the funds to renovate and nourish its future life when no one owns it?”Photo by Matthew Bradley, via Flickr, licensed
under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
Richard Stallman as “Saint IGNUtius”
Software as a Commons
Free Software Foundation’s logo, GNU General Public License (GPL),
or “copyleft.”
GNU: Four Freedoms
00 To run the program, for any purpose.
01 To study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
02 To redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
03 To improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
The Great Copyright & Trademark Blowout
Photo by Justin Gaurav Murgal, via Flicker, licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
Author’s lifetime + 70 years For corporations, 95 years
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Trademark dilution & tarnishment
Shrinkage in fair use rights
…and a whole lotta bullying by copyright and trademark owners.
Everything “born copyrighted”
Photo by Robert Scobie, via Flickr, licensed under a Creative Commons BY license.
How to make sharing legal on the Internet?
Six Basic CC Licenses
Attribution
Attribution Non-Commercial
Attribution No Derivatives
Attribution ShareAlike
Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
“The Great Value Shift”
Explosion of highly efficient, user-driven value-creation on open platforms.
Socially created value
is becoming a macro-economic and cultural
force in its own right.
The commons is generative
(no “tragedy of the commons”)GNU Linux / free software remix musicwikis video mashupscollaborative websites social networking
(Facebook)blogosphere open access scholarly
publishingphotosharing (Flickr) Craigslistpodcasting Internet Archive
Photo by Patrick H. Lauke, via Flickr, licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
Cory Doctorow
Nine Inch Nails
1. The sharing economy
goes global.
2. The rise of open business models.
3. The Open Educational
Resources (OER) movement
4. The science commons
5. A new species of citizenship?
The Digital Citizen honors:
Open access
Freedom to participate
Transparency
Talent & innovation
Social equity
Decentralized authority “Freedom is participation in power.”
--Cicero
The commons -- a new social metabolism in our cultural ecosystem for governance & law
Image by Stanton F. Fink, via Wikipedia, CC BY license, version 2.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3ABanffia_confusa.jpg
