Global trends in online copyright

Trends, opportunities and threats in the digital copyright and online collaboration realm Version 2.0, May 2009 by Heather Ford

OR How copyright is colliding with the Internet

(1) Copyright: then and now

1710, England ‘The Statute of Anne: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning’

public domain scope C duration

(2) Along came the internet

1983 Matt Britt CC BY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg

‘dumb networks smart devices’

the ‘World Wide Web’ Tim Berners Lee 1989

A Revolution.

Set a collision course and a challenge that four inﬂuential people would take up to attempt to redeﬁne how information and knowledge should be owned and controlled on the new platform.

(3) Enter the revolutionaries

1. The Dreamer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Matthew_Stallman.jpeg GFDL ‘The GNU Manifesto’ Richard Stallman 1985

Rights to collaborate and improve knowledge are valid when it comes to digital networks.

2. The philosopher ‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’ John Perry Barlow 1996 Pic by Joi Ito CC BY www.ﬂickr.com/photos/joi/836262884/

Copyright is a blunt tool to regulate information being shared across networks.

3. The activist Lawrence Lessig Creative Commons 2003 Pic by ‘Notwist’ CC BY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lessig_portrait.jpg

New copyright rules need to accommodate the art of remix rather than stiﬂing creativity.

4. The pragmatist Tim O’Reilly ‘Web 2.0’ 2001 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_O%27Reilly2.jpg CC BY

‘Intellectual property protection limits re-use and prevents experimentation. Therefore: when beneﬁts come from collective adoption, not private restriction, make sure that barriers to adoption are low.’

(4) And in the opposite corner

5. The lobbyist Jack Valenti Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 Roland Godefroy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JackValenti19.JPG

against for

Pirate Bay against for

Pirate Bay Free software against for

Pirate Bay Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s against for

Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s against for

Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s Indigenous Knowledge against for

Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA Indigenous Knowledge against for

Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Drug companies Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA Indigenous Knowledge against for

Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Drug companies Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA Indigenous Knowledge Licensing agencies against for

Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Drug companies Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA Indigenous Knowledge Licensing agencies against for [depending on whether you’re acting as a consumer or producer of intellectual property]

(5) Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Smashing myths 1. The only incentive for innovation is financial 2. In the software and publishing fields, you make money by selling copies 3. Public services are most efficiently produced by the private/for-profit sector REF: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-wisdom-of-community/

(6) And now?

Talk back The wisdom of community 1. Simplicity 2. Interface 3. Aggregation 4. Participation 5. Motivation 6. Scores REF: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-wisdom-of-community/

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Global trends in online copyright

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