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Ecologies of Regulation
Prodromos Tsiavos
policy + business + beyond
Date: 05.04.05
Place: Oslo University
backbone
Case: CC project
Modalities of regulation
Primary Materials
past
ecologiesexamples
lawtech
marketnorms
From modalities to ecologies
variablesregulatory vehicles
regulatory engineering
ideologylegal
[Part A]
CASE: Creative Commons
[one]
Creative Commons Past + present
[chronicle]
Founded 2001
1st Project: December 2002
Initiation: Berkman/ Harvard
Housed @ Stanford Law School
By:
James Boyle
Michael Caroll
Lawrence Lessig
Hal Abelson
Eric Saltzman
Eric Eldred
[an NGO]
run by International Lawyers and Academics
[supported]
(mother ship): Center for the Public Domain and various other charitable foundations
CC-UK:
Oxford University: PCMLP
[our role]
Creative Commons UK
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Wolfson CollegeOX2 6UD, OxfordUnitied Kingdom
Prodromos Tsiavos:CC-UK
Legal Project Lead
Ashutosh Khanna:CC-UK
Technical Advisor
[objective]
2estabilsh middle ground
between
copyright extremism
copyfight anarchy
[two]
ecologies
[acknowledge]
[institutional ecology]
Nexus of rules
[copyright ecologies]
Laws:
International Treaties
Regional Regulations (EU Directives)
National Laws
Collecting Societies
Enforcement agencies/ organisations
Lobbying Bodies
Rights’ repositories/ repackaging
Licensing Schemes (inter-org)
Mass Licensing
[three]
ideology
[middle ground]
•providing a set of user-friendly online licenses combined with a sophisticated search technology
• authors, musicians and other creators of content can use these licenses to protect some of their ownership rights, while giving others away
• the result is a new global standard or layer of copyright law promoting the dissemination of digital content and the free exchange of ideas
[four]
Legal: licences uncovered
[hybrid]
The General Public Licence [Free/Open Source Software]:
ShareAlike
Derivative
Shareware
No Commercial Use
Other
Remix
[three expressions]
[1]
Human-Readable: Commons Deed
[2]
Lawyer-Readable: Legal Code
[3]
Machine-Readable: Meta Data
Logo + Link
schematic
Attribution
No Commercial Use
Derivative Works
Share Alike
logos
[five]
examples
[case One]
magnatunes
[case two]
European Schoolnet
[case three]
Code v.2
[case three]
[case four]
Tate d_cultuRe : d0wnloAd_saMple+cuT-uP: cultuRe
[technology interaction]
[case five]
Channel4: pix + mix
[intermission I]
B good
[Part B]
Some theory: modalities of regulation
[Lawrence (Larry) Lessig]
(that’s him)
Age: 43
Background:
Economics
Management
Philosophy
Law
• Constitutional law professor
• Clerk for Richard Posner/ Antonin Scalia
• Special interest in former Soviet Union democracies
• Free Speech on the Net
• IPR - Commons
[his work]
[a]
meaning/ constitutional interpretation
three eras:
[b]
Modalities of regulation/ free
speech/ IPR
[c]
Creative Commons
[modalities of regulation]
Law
Architecture
Norms
Market
Related reading:
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000)
The new Chicago School (1998)
Constitution and Code (1996-7)
[Law]
Administrative regulations e.g. OFTEL/ OFCOM
Health and safety
EnvironmentalActs
Measures/ circulars
Copyright Act
National Laws
Regional Instruments
International Conventions
leveltype
character
Green Light
Red Light
[architecture/ technology]
Jeremy Bentham (panopticon)
Napoleon III (Paris
Robert Moses (bridges)
Related reading:
Architecting innovation (2001)
not a new idea
[norms]
Thomas Kuhn Constructivists
ANT
Related reading:
R. Ellickson (1991)
not a new idea
[market]
Chicago School
Competition Law
Related reading:
Williamson (1996)
not a new idea
[norms]
Law
Architecture
Technology
Market
Related reading:
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000)
The new Chicago School (1998)
Constitution and Code (1996-7)
[what is new then?]
Indirect Regulation
State as not the only source of law
Questioning the role of law (constitution/ DCMA)
Politicisation of technology in the legal context
[Intermission II]
Stay alive
[Part C]
From Modalities to ecologies
[efforts to improve the model]
Organisational context
Level of understanding
Focus on the interactions
Murray and Scott (2002)
Tsiavos (2004)
[Contractual Agreements]
Licences and technology
Technology and regulatory environment
[regulatory vehicles]
Checking norms across platforms
Tsiavos (2005)
Digital Rights Management Systems
Contractual agreements
[variables]
Elasticity
Proximity
Humility
[regulatory engineering]
GOTO CC
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