The document discusses the changing role of copyright in the information society through three questions:
1) What will happen to copyright's role? It argues current laws are becoming difficult to enforce and will threaten free speech if enforcement is broadened.
2) What is copyright protection aimed at - creativity or the work? Creativity is now seen as an evolutionary process rather than the work of genius. New forms of collaborative creation are emerging.
3) How should creativity be organized and protected? Historically it was to provide economic incentives, but what now produces existential value as industries change rapidly? Future protection may focus on institutions that facilitate, not restrict, creativity.
2015 Edelman Trust Barometer - Global ResultsEdelman
The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer is the firm’s 15th annual trust and credibility survey. The survey was powered by research firm Edelman Berland and consisted of 20-minute online interviews conducted on October 13th – November 24th, 2014. The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer online survey sampled 27,000 general population respondents with an oversample of 6,000 informed publics ages 25-64 across 27 markets. All informed publics met the following criteria: college-educated; household income in the top quartile for their age in their country; read or watch business/news media at least several times a week; follow public policy issues in the news at least several times a week.
For more information, visit http://www.edelman.com/trust2015
February 12, 2015 Correction: A previous version of this report incorrectly labeled the data on slide 11 as being about information “created by each author on social networking sites, content sharing sites and online-only information sources.” The data is not about trust in authors but trust in sources, and the label has been updated.
February 5, 2015 Correction: A previous version of this report stated in a headline on slide 20 that an “expert” and "a person like yourself" are twice as credible as a CEO - they are more credible by at least 20 percentage points; a Jeff Bezos quote on slide 23 misused “business" for “society."
January 28, 2015 Correction: A previous version of this report had reversed the labeling of business and government on slide 46 in the appendix.
Edelman Trust Barometer 2017 - UK ResultsEdelman_UK
The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer is the firm’s 17th annual trust and credibility survey. It measures trust across a number of institutions, sectors and geographies.
2017 Edelman TRUST BAROMETER™- Global ResultsEdelman
The 2017 Edelman TRUST BAROMETER™ reveals that trust is in crisis around the world. The general population’s trust in the institutions of business, government, NGOs, and media declined broadly, a phenomenon not recorded since Edelman began tracking trust in 2001.
For more information, visit www.edelman.com/trust2017
January 17, 2017 Correction: A previous version of this report incorrectly represented the data associated with “Leave the EU” and “Remain in the EU” on slide 30. The numbers reflected have been updated.
Copyright (c) 2017 Daniel J. Edelman, Inc. All rights reserved.
2015 Edelman Trust Barometer - Global ResultsEdelman
The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer is the firm’s 15th annual trust and credibility survey. The survey was powered by research firm Edelman Berland and consisted of 20-minute online interviews conducted on October 13th – November 24th, 2014. The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer online survey sampled 27,000 general population respondents with an oversample of 6,000 informed publics ages 25-64 across 27 markets. All informed publics met the following criteria: college-educated; household income in the top quartile for their age in their country; read or watch business/news media at least several times a week; follow public policy issues in the news at least several times a week.
For more information, visit http://www.edelman.com/trust2015
February 12, 2015 Correction: A previous version of this report incorrectly labeled the data on slide 11 as being about information “created by each author on social networking sites, content sharing sites and online-only information sources.” The data is not about trust in authors but trust in sources, and the label has been updated.
February 5, 2015 Correction: A previous version of this report stated in a headline on slide 20 that an “expert” and "a person like yourself" are twice as credible as a CEO - they are more credible by at least 20 percentage points; a Jeff Bezos quote on slide 23 misused “business" for “society."
January 28, 2015 Correction: A previous version of this report had reversed the labeling of business and government on slide 46 in the appendix.
Edelman Trust Barometer 2017 - UK ResultsEdelman_UK
The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer is the firm’s 17th annual trust and credibility survey. It measures trust across a number of institutions, sectors and geographies.
2017 Edelman TRUST BAROMETER™- Global ResultsEdelman
The 2017 Edelman TRUST BAROMETER™ reveals that trust is in crisis around the world. The general population’s trust in the institutions of business, government, NGOs, and media declined broadly, a phenomenon not recorded since Edelman began tracking trust in 2001.
For more information, visit www.edelman.com/trust2017
January 17, 2017 Correction: A previous version of this report incorrectly represented the data associated with “Leave the EU” and “Remain in the EU” on slide 30. The numbers reflected have been updated.
Copyright (c) 2017 Daniel J. Edelman, Inc. All rights reserved.
"Imagining a Smithsonian Commons" CIL 2009 Michael Edson (text version)Michael Edson
Text version of keynote presentation to 2009 Computers in Libraries conference. 4/1/09. See also supporting PowerPoint slides. This text is in the Public Domain. Video of me giving this presentation is at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1327813
Text version of keynote for 2009 Visual Resources Association, "Imaging a Smithsonian Commons." See also PowerPoint version. NOTE: this content is in the public domain (I'm a federal employee) but SlideShare doesn't let me tag it that way.
"Imagining a Smithsonian Commons" CIL 2009 Michael Edson (text version)Michael Edson
Text version of keynote presentation to 2009 Computers in Libraries conference. 4/1/09. See also supporting PowerPoint slides. This text is in the Public Domain. Video of me giving this presentation is at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1327813
Text version of keynote for 2009 Visual Resources Association, "Imaging a Smithsonian Commons." See also PowerPoint version. NOTE: this content is in the public domain (I'm a federal employee) but SlideShare doesn't let me tag it that way.
10. ”Governments of the Industrial
World, you weary giants of flesh
and steel, I come from
Cyberspace, the new home of
Mind. On behalf of the future, I
ask you of the past to leave us
alone. You are not welcome
among us. You have no
sovereignty where we gather.”
11. ”I declare the global social space we
are building to be naturally
independent of the tyrannies you
seek to impose on us. You have no
moral right to rule us nor do you
possess any methods of enforcement
we have true reason to fear.”
12. Your legal concepts of
property, expression, identity,
movement, and context do
not apply to us. They are all
based on matter, and there is
no matter here.
13. ”We will create a civilization of
the Mind in Cyberspace.
May it be more
humane and fair
than the world your
governments have made before.”
24. "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible
than all others of exclusive property, it is the
action of the thinking power called an idea, which
an individual may exclusively possess as long as he
keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged,
it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and
the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.”
25. "Its peculiar character, too, is that no one
possesses the less, because every other
possesses the whole of it. He who receives an
idea from me, receives instruction himself
without lessening mine; as he who lights his
taper at mine, receives light without darkening
me."
29. A commodity appears at first sight
an extremely obvious, trivial thing.
But its analysis brings out that it is
a very strange thing, abounding in
metaphysical subtleties and
theological niceties.
30. ”Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day,
teach a man how to fish, you ruin a
wonderful business opportunity.”
36. ”Furthermore, the increasing
difficulty of enforcing existing
copyright and patent laws is
already placing in peril the
ultimate source of intellectual
property, the free exchange of
ideas.”
37. That is, when the primary articles of
commerce in a society look so much
like speech as to be indistinguishable
from it, and when the traditional
methods of protecting their ownership
have become ineffectual, attempting to
fix the problem with broader and more
vigorous enforcement will inevitably
threaten freedom of speech.
38. ”The greatest constraint on your
future liberties may come not
from government but from
corporate legal departments
laboring to protect by force what
can no longer be protected by
practical efficiency or general
social consent.”
49. Creativity is universally agreed to be a
good that copyright law should seek
to promote, yet copyright scholarship
and policymaking have proceeded
largely on the basis of assumptions
about what it actually is...
161. On a macro level, in 2009 alone, the internet
allowed the “long tail” unsigned artists that
used TuneCore to generate over $32,000,000
in music sales by selling over 42,000,000
songs – this is more than one song a second
selling by a TuneCore Artist on iTunes. This
“long tail” catalog that TuneCore’s Aritsts
represent is now one of the most valuable
music catalogs in the world.
162. Kelly sold over 2,000,000 million tracks
William Fitzsimmons sold over 150,000 tracks
Soulja Boy sold over 200,000 tracks
Boyce Avenue sold over 1,200,000 tracks
Ron Pope sold over 250,000 tracks
Colt Ford sold over 300,000 tracks
Secondhand Serenade sold over 250,000 tracks
Tapes N Tapes sold over 200,000 tracks
Nevershoutnever sold over 1,000,000 tracks
Drake sold over 300,000 tracks
MGMT sold over 225,000 tracks
The Medic Droid sold over 150,00 tracks
Nickasaur sold over 150,000 tracks
Harry and the Potters sold over 200,000 tracks