cultural production & consumption: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Cultural Production & Consumption: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Mathias Klang

@klang67

Culture is inevitable, copyright is not

Copyright is all about fixation

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

Technology 300 years ago…

Statute of anne 1710

Don’t be greedyThe expansion of copyright to include more forms of

expression (may ultimately weaken copyright as a whole).

Modern copyright law

is fixed in the 1950s

“These

are

not the

nor

ms

you’re looking for”

What happened?

The tools of production

Myths we regulate by

EMPIRICAL proof cash NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION… But geeks are different?

PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS

And still we cling to the economic & creative myth

Paying for cultural production

The theoretically possible becomes the inevitable

The end of scarcity

“who told me” becomes more important than “who made it”. Sandra Snan

Blog

ger

1999

Goo

gle

1 999

End of communications monopoly

This is not a book

Changing the marketplace

More information

User generated content

Personal data & walled gardens

Pricing models & purpose of copyright

How we consume

Market failures

Free speech & private censors

Lag of analogue rules

A workaround

History of Creative CommonsThe duct tape of copyright

Four limitations

Why Share?

Sharing is caring

Swedish heritage board

3.5 years later

OMG!!!OMG!!!

How to License

Want more information?

More informationwww.iis.se/docs/copyright_copyleft.pdf

If bad stuff happens…

Case law

Germany 2011

Israel 2011: TA 3560/09, 3561/09, Avi Re'uveni v. Mapa inc.

Belgium 2010: 09-1684-A (Lichôdmapwa v. L'asbl Festival de Theatre de Spa)

The Netherlands, 2006: Curry v. Audax

Spain 2006: SGAE v. Fernandez

Cheats, nasty people, & evil corporations

#FAIL

Want more free stuff?

AUDIO

http://artistserver.com/

http://ccmixter.org/

http://free-loops.com/

http://www.freesound.org/

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://www.jamglue.com/

http://www.soundclick.com/

http://www.tribeofnoise.com/

http://librivox.org/

BILDER

http://animalphotos.info/a/

http://carpictures.cc/cars/photo/

http://www.compfight.com/

http://creativity103.com/

http://flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://www.geograph.org.uk/

http://photoeverywhere.co.uk/

http://en.sevenload.com/

TEXT

http://www.intratext.com/http://www.travellerspoint.com/http://www.unearthtravel.com/http://www.wisdomcommons.org/http://wikipedia.org

VIDEO

http://blip.tv/http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://one.revver.com/http://youtube.com

Thank you.

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

www.digital-rights.net

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