Copyright law faces challenges in the digital age. As information is increasingly digitized and shared online, copyright protections can come into conflict with fundamental human rights like privacy, education, free expression, and access to information. The document discusses how copyright was historically designed for physical works but now extensively impacts digital works and behaviors. Several problems are outlined where copyright restrictions may inhibit universal human rights on the internet if not properly balanced. The future of the internet and role of copyright on it will depend on how it is framed - as a tool for institutions, an environment for the public, or market for commercial interests.

1. Сopyright and digital rights
Challenges for information society
Michael Volchek
pirates.bymediabarcamp.com

2. Copyright

3. Landscape
•Books, films, music, software, games, photos,
pictures, clips, advertisement
•Science, medicine
•Media is everywhere

5. Right of property
• Expresses property (possesion, arrangement,
usage)

6. Licenses
• Authors, rightholders, users

7. History
• 1491 - Venice
• 1710 - England
• 1787 - United States
• 1828 - The Russian Empire
• 1886 - The Berne Convention
• 1989 - United States
• 1990 - China
• 1994 - TRIPS

8. Interests
• 50-100 years
• in Belarus - 50 years, in Europe - 70, in Russia -
70, in USA - 100
• Protection of huge investments

10. Copyright nature – centralization

11. Analog and digital signals

12. Digit
• Mobile connection
• Internet

13. Digital features
• Copy
• Modify
• Use
• Distribute
• Participation in decision making
• Create
• Self expression
• Privacy and Anonymity
• Association - community, socnetwork

14. Digital Communication

15. Digital rights

16. ?!
• The universal human right (The Decalration)

17. In the rest world
• Iceland
• Estonia
• Finland
• Spain
• Greece
• Internet is as right

18. State
• communicates with citizens through Internet
"state services"

19. State
• gathers and holds information about citizens
with Internet
• services providers (including hosting domain)
• or legislative evidence

20. State
• regulates the Internet, it means consider
Internet as object of right
• Decrees, resolutions

21. State
• accepts cryptography defence tools as right
• i.e. electronic digital signature

22. Content: trends
• Content is everywhere
• Copyright effects on it
• Liquid forms (synthesis)
• Anonimity of content
• Multiple author
• Privatisation of Public Domain

23. Common
Copyright extends its effect on the universal
human rights

24. Problem 1
• Article 12 Invasion on privacy, confidentiality
of correspondence.
• The right to privacy and anonymity.

25. Problem 2
• Article 19 Freedom to receive and distribute
information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers -
• to copy,
• to distribute

26. Problem 3
• Article 26 The right to education,
• to copy,
• to modify,
• to use
• to research

27. Problem 4
• Article 27.1 Participate in the cultural life
... to participate in thescience-technical
progress and get its benefits –
• self expression,
• right to development,
• creation
• to copy, to modify

28. Problem 5
• Article 27.2 Protection of the moral and
material interests of the author

29. Internet future
• as a tool (state institutions) - partly copyright
• as the environment (public) - no copyright
• the scope of the market (commercial
interests) - copyright

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