This slideshow is from a course on developing a digital copyright strategy for collaborative web projects.

1. Trends, opportunities and threats in the digital
copyright and online collaboration realm
Version 2.0, May 2009 by Heather Ford

2. OR How copyright is colliding with the Internet

3. (1) Copyright: then and now

6. 1710, England ‘The Statute of Anne: An Act for the
Encouragement of Learning’

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9. (2) Along came the internet

10. 1983
Matt Britt CC BY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg

11. ‘dumb networks smart devices’

12. the ‘World Wide Web’
Tim Berners Lee
1989

13. A Revolution.

14. Set a collision course and a challenge that four
influential people would take up to attempt to
redefine how information and knowledge should be
owned and controlled on the new platform.

15. (3) Enter the revolutionaries

16. 1. The Dreamer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Matthew_Stallman.jpeg GFDL
‘The GNU Manifesto’
Richard Stallman
1985

17. Rights to collaborate and improve knowledge are
valid when it comes to digital networks.

18. 2. The philosopher
‘A Declaration of the
Independence of
Cyberspace’
John Perry Barlow
1996
Pic by Joi Ito CC BY www.flickr.com/photos/joi/836262884/

19. Copyright is a blunt tool to regulate information
being shared across networks.

20. 3. The activist
Lawrence Lessig
Creative Commons
2003
Pic by ‘Notwist’ CC BY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lessig_portrait.jpg

21. New copyright rules need to accommodate the art
of remix rather than stifling creativity.

22. 4. The pragmatist
Tim O’Reilly
‘Web 2.0’
2001
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_O%27Reilly2.jpg CC BY

23. ‘Intellectual property protection limits re-use and
prevents experimentation. Therefore: when
benefits come from collective adoption, not
private restriction, make sure that barriers to
adoption are low.’

24. (4) And in the opposite corner

25. 5. The lobbyist
Jack Valenti
Digital Millennium
Copyright Act
1998
Roland Godefroy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JackValenti19.JPG

26. against for

27. Pirate Bay
against for

28. Pirate Bay
Free software
against for

29. Pirate Bay
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s
against for

30. Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s
against for

31. Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s
Indigenous Knowledge
against for

32. Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA
Indigenous Knowledge
against for

33. Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Drug companies
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA
Indigenous Knowledge
against for

34. Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Drug companies
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA
Indigenous Knowledge Licensing agencies
against for

35. Pirate Bay A2K and A2Medicines Drug companies
Free software C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s RIAA
Indigenous Knowledge Licensing agencies
against for
[depending on whether
you’re acting as a
consumer or producer
of intellectual property]

36. (5) Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

39. Smashing myths
1. The only incentive for innovation is financial
2. In the software and publishing fields, you make
money by selling copies
3. Public services are most efficiently produced by
the private/for-profit sector
REF: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-wisdom-of-community/

40. (6) And now?

41. Talk back
The wisdom of community
1. Simplicity
2. Interface
3. Aggregation
4. Participation
5. Motivation
6. Scores
REF: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/the-wisdom-of-community/

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