digitalization of culture and creative commons
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The digitalization of modern life and the Creative Commons
Mathias Klang @klang67
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
“...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes.”
Franz Boas (1887)
Siberian/Thuvan throat singing
STEP 1: STATE THE OBVIOUS
DIGITALIZATION CHANGED EVERYTHING
Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media
TECHNOLOGY controls how and what we interact, create & THINK
AFFORDANCESspot the ethical dilemma?
Language technology
Authorship & copyright are inventions of technology
Exodus 20:14
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)
STATUTE OF ANNE (1710)
Wheras printers, booksellers, and other persons, have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing... books, and other writings, without the consent
of the authors... 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…
Expanding rights
Oscar Wilde nr 18 av Napoleon Sarony
“entirely from his own mental conception, to which he gave visible form” ”useful, new, harmonious, characteristic, and graceful picture.”
THE SOCIAL
CENTURY
User generated content
Monopolies in copying & delivery systems
Lag (1960) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk
LAG (1960) OM UPPHOVSRÄTT TILL LITTERÄRA OCH KONSTNÄRLIGA VERK
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that’s invented between when you ’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and
exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything
invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
What’s protected?
Almost everything!
”VERKSHÖJD” BIRD RED SLICE by Koko (1984)
idea/expression dichotomy
Donald Duck by Walt Disney Arne Anka av Charlie Christensen
copying
digitalization
Analog / Digital
• Copy inferior• Limited nr of copies• Copying in real time• Cost
• There is no copy• Infinite nr• Timeless• Without cost
LIFE & DEATH OF
BUSINESS MODELS
Why pirate? Because we can? Because we must? Because we don’t care?
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LAW & MORALITY
LAW REGULATES WHAT IS, NOT WHAT SHOULD BE
STEP 2: LAW & ETHICS TAXONOMY
ethical
unethical
legalillegal
Homage
The Battleship Potemkin 1925 - Odessa Steps scene – director Sergei M. Eisenstein
The Untouchables (1987) film directed by Brian De Palma
ethical
unethical
legalillegal
Cross Culture
Homage
Kill Bill part 1 & 2 (2003) & (2004) by writer/director Quentin Tarantino
ethical
unethical
legalillegal
AMV Homage
Cross Culture
FMA AMV Gimme a Man After Midnight - Abba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xB-RFOZDs
ethical
unethical
legalillegal
Homage
? Cross Culture
AMV
creating artificial barriers
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
Contextual & programmed social
rules
NORMS FROM ABOVE
Anti-Piracy Advertisementhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SmrHNWhakANTI-PIRACY AD
REACTION “FROM BELOW”
The IT Crowd - Series 2 - Episode 3: Piracy warning parodyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNfynI8bdA
IT CROWD PARODY
WHAT TO DO?
“THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS”
dead TRee as NORM
two dominant truths
1. No cash, No Creation
2. Everything Is property
DIGITALIZATION
CONNECTIVITY
DEVICES
STORAGE
the theoretically possiblebecomes the inevitable…
the (slow) death of the analog age… or is it?
Two incredible & strange ideas… that WORKED
STALLMAN PROVED EMPIRICALLY THAT ECONOMIC RETURNS WERE NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION…
But geeks are different?
WALES PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS
Yet we still cling to the analogue myths.
Social technology
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
THEORETICAL & POSSIBLE
BECOMES INEVITABLE
Four limitations
How to License
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
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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