Presented at the Reading Wikipedia conference, Amsterdam, Nov 23 2015.

1. S O M E C O N S I D E R AT I O N S
A B O U T F R E E D O M
D R A N D R E S G U A D A M U Z , U N I V E R S I T Y O F S U S S E X

2. F R E E T H E PA N O R A M A

3. B A C K G R O U N D
“Wikipedia's notion of freedom,
which is derived from the free
software community. This policy
ensures that what is produced by
the Wikimedia community can
freely be re-used by anyone for
any purpose, including for
commercial purposes. Abiding by
this policy, Wikipedia has to put
stringent copyright requirements
on source materials that are
included in its body of work,
thereby substantially limiting the
range of materials that can be
included.”

4. “ F R E E ” L I C E N C E S
M A K E S E N S E I N
S O F T WA R E
• And in data.
• Code and data are
valuable commodities that
are enriched by sharing.
• Tradition of re-use of code
for the benefit of
community.

5. S TA L L M A N
• “If you use something to do jobs
in your life, you must be free to
change it today, and then
distribute your changed version
today in case others need what
you need. Art contributes
something different to society.
You appreciate it. Modifying art
can be a further contribution to
art, but it is not crucial to be
able to do that today. If you had
to wait […] for the copyright to
expire, that would be ok.”

6. E X P O R T I N G O F
T H E F R E E D O M
I D E A L
• Free software activists
have disproportionate
power in the open
movement.
• For long time users favour
NC and ND elements.
• Orgs actively work to
dissuade their use.

7. I N D E F E N C E
O F N C
• Publishers seem more likely
to consider using open
licences with NC.
• Sharing creative works not
always the same as sharing
functional works.
• If we want wider curation of
content, we have to consider
more restrictions to re-use.
• Cultural considerations.

8. C H A L L E N G E S
• Free licences entrenched
in the sharing environment.
• Create a complex
ecosystem with
incompatible licences.
• We need more evidence of
which stakeholders are not
willing to open resources
for fear of commercial use.

9. D R A U G L I S V.
K A P PA M A P G R O U P
• Photographer shares picture on
Flickr allowing commercial use.
• Map maker company uses
picture as cover of map
collection.
• User sues, didn’t want to allow
commercial use in the first
place.
• Court rules in favour of
licensee.

10. I N F O R M E D C O N S E N T
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