Creative Commons: Community by Contract? Stockholm, 8 May 2008 Mathias Klang [email_address]

One of the copyright problems today is…

Swedish Copyright Lag (1960) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk UPPHOVSRÄTTEN Ekonomisk rätt Ideell rätt Exemplarframställning Tillgängliggörande Spridningsrätt Visningsrätt Framföranderätt Rätt till namnangivelse Skydd för kränkande ändring Skydd för kränkande användning Överföring till allmänheten

What is protected? The literary, artistic & ”spiritual creation” The creative form - but not motif/subject, facts or ideas Idea/expression dichotomy

The literary, artistic & ”spiritual creation”

The creative form - but not motif/subject, facts or ideas

Idea/expression dichotomy

Facts

How Automatic… but… The work is “new/innovative” Not too simple Creative Level Verkshöjd

Automatic… but…

The work is “new/innovative”

Not too simple

Creative Level

Verkshöjd

Protection Length Creator - 70 years post mortem (year of death + 71) Anonymous works - 70 years after publication Photographers – 50 years after the picture was taken There are other lengths and exceptions…

Creator - 70 years post mortem (year of death + 71)

Anonymous works - 70 years after publication

Photographers – 50 years after the picture was taken

There are other lengths and exceptions…

Idea/expression dichotomy…

Ideas Donald Duck by Walt Disney Arne Anka by Charlie Christensen

Motifs…

Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci ca 1503

Marcel Duchamp 1919

David Teixidor Buenaventura 2001

Mona Lisa Ascii

Peter Blake Party with La Giaconda 1999

Mujahidin Mona Lisa by Banksy

Fountain - Duchamp (1917)

“ The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act”

Theoretical Foundations Culture is communication Intertextuality & Meaning: The meaning of the artifact lies in the observer (Barthes) and meaning is created through several texts (Kristeva).

Culture is communication

Intertextuality & Meaning: The meaning of the artifact lies in the observer (Barthes) and meaning is created through several texts (Kristeva).

Whose copyright? Property owner Mathias Klang Shepard Fairey Anonymous artist Anonymous artists

Property owner

Mathias Klang

Shepard Fairey

Anonymous artist

Anonymous artists

then we add technology…

In the beginning there was technology…

Life is organised around technology and it always has been! (this is not technological determinism)

Copyright is the logical expression of the analog world. It was created as a result of the printing press. (Victor Hugo & Berne)

Disruptive Technology

The disruption occurs when the technology, which is introduced effects the social arrangements around which we build our lives

Impulse: Control

What’s wrong with Command and Control? It relies to heavily upon coercion and cooperation.

Popular move from passive culture consumers to cultural developers… Whatever would Duchamp say?

Remix conflict

I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. Graucho Marx

Creative Commons

Property

Licensing system

Alternatives

Choose license

More info

Japanese

Bulgarian

Finnish

What is created? License Deed - Human readable The License - Lawyer readable Metatext - Machine readable

License Deed - Human readable

The License - Lawyer readable

Metatext - Machine readable

Esperanto

Castellans

Colombia

License

Metatext <a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/se/&quot;> <img alt=&quot;Creative Commons License&quot; style=&quot;border-width:0&quot; src=&quot;http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/se/88x31.png&quot; /> </a> <br /> <span xmlns:dc=&quot;http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/&quot; href=&quot;http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound&quot; property=&quot;dc:title&quot; rel=&quot;dc:type&quot;>klang i duschen</span> by <a xmlns:cc=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/ns#&quot; href=&quot;http://www.digital-rights.net&quot; property=&quot;cc:attributionName&quot; rel=&quot;cc:attributionURL&quot;>Klang</a> is licensed under a <a rel=&quot;license&quot; href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/se/&quot;>Creative Commons Erkännande-Ickekommersiell-Dela Lika 2.5 Sverige License</a>.

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Flickr 7/5: 19 293 116 bilder (+ 605 972 sedan 17/4-08) Ca 30 000 per dag 107 894 Stockholm 94 949 University 34 Stockholm University University Reflecting Pool - 917press

19 293 116 bilder

(+ 605 972 sedan 17/4-08)

Ca 30 000 per dag

107 894 Stockholm

94 949 University

34 Stockholm University

Day in the park Foto: 917press & Klang

Texts A Briefer History of Time - Eric Schulman The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler Capitalism 3.0 - Peter Barnes Community Created Content - Heitanen et al Code version 2 - Lawrence Lessig No Lobbyists as Such - Florian Muller Peers, Pirates and Persuasion - John Logie Trigger Happy - Steven Poole Yttrandefrihet på Nät e t - Anders R. Olsson

A Briefer History of Time - Eric Schulman

The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler

Capitalism 3.0 - Peter Barnes

Community Created Content - Heitanen et al

Code version 2 - Lawrence Lessig

No Lobbyists as Such - Florian Muller

Peers, Pirates and Persuasion - John Logie

Trigger Happy - Steven Poole

Yttrandefrihet på Nät e t - Anders R. Olsson

Criticism Political criticism - CC has not ensured ideological control (no copyleft) Common Sense - Not needed - too complicated Pro-copyright position - CC is not a useful alernative and undermines copyright Confusion - Too many licenses confuses the situation

Political criticism - CC has not ensured ideological control (no copyleft)

Common Sense - Not needed - too complicated

Pro-copyright position - CC is not a useful alernative and undermines copyright

Confusion - Too many licenses confuses the situation

Alison Chiang

Growth

Thank you! Mathias Klang [email_address]