[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Tue Aug 21 09:00:25 EDT 2007


Kevin Driscoll wrote:
> On 8/20/07, jonathon <jonathon.blake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Including a document that is a crash course in IP rights would be a
>> useful addition to that tool. (There are a number of fairly good essays
>> that have CC-BY-SA licences that could be included as part of the
>> documentation for that tool.)
> 
> One must be very careful in creating a "crash course in IP" on the
> OLPC.  Could it not form a dangerous trojan horse to cultures with
> different understandings of property?

The book "Code" edited by Ghosh contains some very good essays about how 
TRIPS-style intellectual property interacts with tribal or traditional 
knowledge and culture.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10459&ttype=2

The commons-law mailing list sometimes covers this kind of issue as well.

http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/commons-law

Once kids start using OLPC they are dealing with intellectual property 
whether they like it or not so I do believe that they will need some 
education about it. I agree about the dangers of creating an IP 
maximalist trojan horse. It's important not to just do WIPO's work for 
them. So any crash course should be a *critical* crash course, 
presenting the issues and allowing people to take a critical stance to 
IP if they wish.

But then the Orlowskis of this world will complain about CC propaganda. ;-)

- Rob.


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