Access & infrastructure

Upphovsrätt – mellan pirater och poliser

Upphovsrätt – mellan pirater och poliser

Föreläsare: Mathias Klang, Creative Commons Sverige

Med teknologins hjälp gÃ¥r vi frÃ¥n att främst konsumera kultur till att allt mer producera den. Skapandets och även distributionens verktyg har flyttat frÃ¥n fin-kulturen till masskulturen. Var och varannan dator gömmer halvskrivna romaner, musikstycken, hemsidor, bilder â?? egna uttryck. Internet har snabbt gjort de traditionella publiceringskanalerna Ã¥lderdomliga. Denna snabba utveckling har nu frontalkrockat med lagar och strukturer â?? det är svÃ¥rt att missa dagens heta debatter kring upphovsrätt och fildelning. Men vem är det egentligen som gynnas av dagens system – och vem missgynnas?

Onsdagen den 7/12 18:00
Pris: Fri éntre!

IT-ceum РDet Svenska Datamuseet, Link̦ping.

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New Swedish NGO

The new Swedish NGO has now established its first web presence. http://www.libre.se/.

The “Association for free culture and software” (Föreningen Fri Kultur och Programvara) is called Libre for short and will be active in four areas Infrastructure, Culture, Access & Digital Rights. Since the main focus of the NGO is to bring a major part of an international discussion into the Swedish domain the site is in Swedish.

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Does Creative Commons free your content? – CNET reviews

An excellent article on Creative Commons was published on CNET, here is a quote to give you an idea…

“Here’s the concept of a Creative Commons license, as I understand it. Every creative work receives copyright protection automatically the moment you fix the work by putting pen to paper, hitting save, or pressing record. This protection reserves all rights to the work’s creator. Nobody can use that work without express written permission except where there is legally determined fair use. (We’ll get to what constitutes fair use in a minute.)

Creative Commons provides a somewhat standardized set of licenses that a creator of copyrighted works can use to give extra rights to people. This is similar to the GPL, used for software. (What was hard for me to wrap my head around in writing this column is that Creative Commons is actually more about protecting the audience you’re hoping will use your work than it is about protecting you. You still hold on to whatever rights you reserve, but you’re abandoning some of those rights on purpose.)

Copyright law protects any creative work you create whether you want it to or not. Nobody can legally use your work beyond fair use without a license. Creative Commons serves as a license that people who want their work to be shared can issue. Don’t want your work to be shared? No problem. Don’t use a Creative Commons license. ”

Does Creative Commons free your content? – CNET reviews

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Seminar Today: Changes & Poster

There have been a few last moment changes to the seminar this evening. Henrik Sandklef from FSF cannot make it so Jonas �berg will take his place. Rasmus Fleischer from Piratbyrån will be participating.

poster

We also have a poster!

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Vägval Vänster & Upphovsrätt

Vägval Vänster har lagt upp information om mötet nu på onsdag (imorgon).
http://www.vagvalvanster.se/arkiv.asp?id=666

Upphovsrättsfrågan som politik och kulturuttryck Varför är upphovsrätten så omdiskuterad? Varför är så många intresserade av begrepp som copyleft, fildelning, GNU-licenser och open source? På onsdagen den 5 oktober diskuteras en av vår tids största politiska stridsfrågor och mest tidstypiska kulturuttryck.

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WSIS, Internet Governance and Human Rights

Time: Monday, October 3, 2005, 09.00 – 17.00
Venue: Hammarskog Conference Centre, Uppsala

Registration: johan.hellstrom@kus.uu.se
More practical information Background material

Why is there no debate or no media reports in Sweden about the emerging and existing information society and Internet governance issues? Internationally, the discussion is at its peak, with the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) coming up in November in Tunis. Sweden, being one of the countries with the highest Internet access rates and with the ambition to be a leading nation on information and communication technology (ICT) usage and development, should be more involved in the international debate and also more concerned about the implications of Internet governance and Internet usage for society at large.

One reason for the absent debate is the existing intellectual divide between ICT and Internet management experts on the one hand, and democracy and human rights experts on the other. Technologists know how information technology can be managed and manipulated – but show little interest in or do not understand the implications for democracy and human rights.
More background

Keynote Speakers
Avri Doria (USA/Israel). Member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Technical Consultant, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Researcher at the School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Astrid Dufborg (Sweden). Special ICT Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden. Convenor of the UN ICT Task Force Working Group on Enabling Environment.

Mathias Klang (Sweden). Researcher in the field of access to technology and technology rights at the Department of Informatics, University of Göteborg. Responsible for Creative Commons in Sweden. Editor of the book “Human Rights in the Digital Age” (Glasshouse Press, 2005).

Website
http://www.kus.uu.se/en/activities/activities/20051003e.shtml

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Upphovsrättsfrågan som politik och kulturuttryck

Varför är upphovsrätten så omdiskuterad? Varför är så många intresserade av begrepp som copyleft, fildelning, GNU-licenser och open source? På onsdagen den 5e oktober tar vi upp en av vår tids största politiska stridsfrågor och mest tidstypiska kulturuttryck.

PÃ¥ podiet finns:
– Linus Dahlander, I-sektionen, Chalmers
– Mathias Klang, Creative Commons
РKarl Palm̴s, CBiS, GU
– Henrik Sandklef, Free Software Foundation
– Inger Sundberg, Free Software Foundation
РJohan Șderberg
– Jonas Ã?berg, Informatik, GU

Plats & Tid: Viktoriagatan 13, 18h30.

Välkommna

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The digital Dark Age

They fear that rather than ushering mankind into a techno-utopia of paperless offices and clean, eco-friendly, endlessly flexible, virtual communication, it threatens to cast future generations into what Connell describes as a “digital dark age”.

“It all seems very attractive – scanning documents, taking pictures, putting them into the computer for safekeeping, allowing us to throw away hard copies and to save space.” Indeed, it is the most dramatic record-keeping revolution since the invention of printing.

“But what happens some time later,” asks Connell, “when we discover that we no longer have the machines, the programs – the hardware, the software – the know-how, to access all that computer-based, digital material?”

The digital Dark Age – Technology – smh.com.au

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Expanding the Public Domain

James Boyle on the Public Domain

“My goal here has been to offer a theory, and a practice, of the public domain. The theory and practice come with a change in attitude. It’s time to think about expanding the public domain, not just defending or salvaging it. Some of the decisions that have already been made were unfortunate. There was no need to extend the copyright terms, in my view. It was not economically justified, it didn’t harmonize the law, and we’ve locked up 20 years of culture for no good reason. But the good news is, I don’t think that the term extension would pass today. What we have to do now is to think of all of the ways in which we can use the wonderful technology that is available to us, and build a public domain that people can get access to practically, but also a public domain they are aware of. Because if people have a sense of this world of available, accessible information, and understand what they can do with it, not just as passive consumers, but as people who can actually use and build on it, then we will solve the theoretical problem I started out with. We will have our rich and complex idea of public domain because we will all be living it every day.”

ARL 241: Expanding the Public Domain

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