The document discusses the history and issues around copyright and open content licensing. It traces the development of copyright from early statutes protecting authors' rights to the modern concept of creative commons licenses. It notes both benefits and criticisms of open content licensing approaches, including that they may undermine traditional copyright or be too complicated, while acknowledging they have allowed millions of works to be shared openly.

1. The good, the bad & the ugly Copyright & Open content licenses

2. ATT-NC-SA NO ENDORSEMENT AND NO DEROGATORY USE - The Digital Revolution material is provided to allow you to get creative with content, not for campaigning, fundraising or to defame others. Don’t use it for illegal, offensive or fundraising purposes.

3. AN INFRASTRUCTURE OF SHARING

4. WHERE THE TROUBLE BEGAN Or the danger of good intentions…

5. WHEREAS PRINTERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND OTHER PERSONS, HAVE OF LATE FREQUENTLY TAKEN THE LIBERTY OF PRINTING, REPRINTING, AND PUBLISHING, OR CAUSING TO BE PRINTED, REPRINTED, AND PUBLISHED BOOKS, AND OTHER WRITINGS, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE AUTHORS OR PROPRIETORS OF SUCH BOOKS AND WRITINGS, TO THEIR VERY GREAT DETRIMENT, AND TOO OFTEN TO THE RUIN OF THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES: FOR PREVENTING THEREFORE SUCH PRACTICES FOR THE FUTURE, AND FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LEARNED MEN TO COMPOSE AND WRITE USEFUL BOOKS; Statute of Anne 1710

6. LAGEN DEN 10 AUGUSTI 1877 OM ÄGANDERÄTT TILL SKRIFT äganderätt till skrift: litterär äganderätt. Därmed menas rätt för en skrifts författare eller dennes rättsinnehafvare att, med andras uteslutande, låta genom tryck (äfven fotokemiskt) mångfaldiga sin skrift, ehvad den förut blifvit offentliggjord eller förefinnes endast i handskrift.

8. THE ARCHDEACON GAZED AT THE GIGANTIC EDIFICE FOR SOME TIME IN SILENCE, THEN EXTENDING HIS RIGHT HAND, WITH A SIGH, TOWARDS THE PRINTED BOOK WHICH LAY OPEN ON THE TABLE, AND HIS LEFT TOWARDS NOTRE-DAME, AND TURNING A SAD GLANCE FROM THE BOOK TO THE CHURCH,--"ALAS," HE SAID, "THIS WILL KILL THAT." The Hunchback of Notre Dame

10. ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNION THE COUNTRIES TO WHICH THIS CONVENTION APPLIES CONSTITUTE A UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS IN THEIR LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS. Berne Convention 1886

11. Det upphovsrättsliga systemet 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

12. THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

13. LIFE IS ORGANIZED AROUND TECHNOLOGY… … and it always has been….

14. NÄR KOSTNADER GÅR MOT NOLL…

15. WE HAVE ALTERNATIVES “ Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?” Caligula (Albert Camus)

16. IF IT AINT BROKE – THEN DON’T FIX IT… IF IT IS BROKEN – THEN DON’T FIX IT…

18. STALLMAN FORKED THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS OF CREATION AND PROVED EMPIRICALLY THAT SHARING WORKS So why is it that everyone still cannot believe it?

19. THE ABILITY OF THE POWER ELITE TO CONTROL “MARGINAL” GROUPS

20. CONVERGENCE OF HACKERS AND USERS… We are not marginal any more… actually we probably never were… & DIGITAL GENERATION…

21. HISTORIK 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 WWW Facebook YouTube Twitter MySpace Ning Linkedin Second Life

22. OPEN CONTENT LICENSING CC was not the first but it is now the most common

23. HISTORIK 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 CC grundad! 1 mil . licenser 4.7 mil . CC licens verk! 20 mil .

24. 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 http://creativecommons.org/about/history/ 90 mill! 50 mill! 130 mill!

25. Licenssystem

26. Alternativ

27. Criticism Political - CC does not ensure ideological control Common Sense – its too complicated Pro-copyright position - CC not viable and undermines copyright by fooling users Anti-copyright – its broken! Don’t fix it. Confusion – do we need another license??? Community – licenses do not create community (or lawyers are bad people)

28. Thank you!