CSE 2009
4 may 2009
pittsburgh, pa
john wilbanks
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it’s not about the law, it’s about
the network effect.
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the right to make and distribute “copies”
the right to make and distribute “derivatives”
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“compatibly communicating”
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“compatibly communicating”
devices.
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knowledge isn’t communicating compatibly.
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journal articles
data
ontologies
annotations
wikis
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“...we don’t ask what the incentive is for the
electrons to leave home. We say that the
current results from an emergent property of
the system, which we call induction.”
eben moglen, 1999
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“...we don’t ask what the incentive is for the
electrons to leave home. We say that the
current results from an emergent property of
the system, which we call induction.”
The question we ask is ‘what’s the resistance of the wire?’
eben moglen, 1999
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“compatibly communicating”
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“compatibly communicating”
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2.
the commons - digital “property” is different.
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analog
uses
all
implicating
possible
© law
uses of a
work
fair
uses
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digital
uses
implicating
© law
all fair
uses
possible
uses of a
work* *where every
use is a copy.
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ignoring the law does not scale.
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the digital commons - another
network layer.
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computers tcp/ip
documents html/http
knowledge commons
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1,596,270,108 internet users
(http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm)
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3.
creative commons: sharing is easy, legal, and scalable
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free culture
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Licensing
Step 1: Choose Conditions
Attribution Share Alike
Non-Commercial No Derivative Works
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Licensing
Step 2: Receive a License
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International Jurisdictions
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Licensed Objects via G/Y!
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image from the public library of science
licensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0
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what do these
ideas mean in
a world of
integrated data?
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open rights.
multiplicity of incentives.
distributed workloads.
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google maps for brain images?
http://sparql.neurocommons.org:8890/map/#Kcnip3@2850,Kcnd1@2800
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two futures.
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what can you do?
1. get ahead of the curve.
2. link into data and tools.
3. expect the unexpected.
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thank you
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
CHDI Foundation
Omidyar Network
Nike
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