[Icommons] A new copyright regime for cultural uses
Michael Smolens
michael at dotsub.com
Thu Jan 31 11:16:25 EST 2008
This is a great idea, and badly needed. dotSUB would like to help on
this project, so please let us know what we can do.
Cory, once again good insight.
Michael L. Smolens
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On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Anirudh wrote:
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> From: Michelle Childs <michelle.childs at cptech.org>
> Date: Jan 31, 2008 5:23 PM
> Subject: A new copyright regime for cultural uses
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> From Boing Boing Cory Doctorow
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> In my new Guardian column, "Copyright law should distinguish between
> commercial and cultural uses," I argue for a new kind of copyright
> law, one that mirrors the "folk copyright" that individuals have lived
> by for
>
> decades -- the alternative is to try to get kids and fans to
> participate in the "real" copyright, a system of industrial regulation
> so complex that it can barely be understood by full-time copyright
> attorneys.
> This is a genuinely radical idea: individuals should hire lawyers to
> negotiate their personal use of cultural material, or at least refrain
> from sharing their cultural activities with others (except it's not's
> really culture if you're not sharing it, is it?).
> It's also a dumb idea. People aren't going to hire lawyers to bless
> the singalong or Timmy's comic book. They're also not going to stop
> doing culture.
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> We need to stop shoe-horning cultural use into the little carve-outs
> in copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use. Instead we need to
> establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative
> consensus about what's fair and what isn't at the small-scale, hand-
> to-
> hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.
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> ,<snip>
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> A diverse and extremely sensible group of people are doing just this:
> the Access to Knowledge (A2K) treaty is a proposal from the World
> Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to set out the rights and
> responsibilities of archivists, educators and people who provide
> access to disabled users of information.
>
> The drafting group - which is open to the general public - includes
> representatives of creators' groups (tellingly, no one from the
> corporations that buy creators' works have taken part), disabled
> rights groups, technical standards bodies, civil rights groups, even
> medical rights groups like Médecins Sans Frontières.
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> A2K is at the top of the WIPO agenda. It's the first breath of sanity
> in the copyright debate. Let's hope it's not the last one.
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> Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/29/copyright.law
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> Michelle Childs
> Head of European Affairs
> Knowledge Ecology International
> michelle.childs at cptech.org
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