This document discusses copyright and cultural relativism. It notes that what is considered normal depends on when one is born and that laws regulate what currently exists, not what should exist. The document then examines the history and expansion of copyright law and contrasts this with increasing user-generated content online. It analyzes copyright through the frameworks of law, ethics, and morality. It concludes by arguing that more flexible, polycentric regulation is needed to adapt to cultural changes and new forms of expression, including limiting copyright terms and allowing more creative reuse.
4. “...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes.” Franz Boas (1887)
12. Wheras printers, booksellers, and other persons, have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing... books, and other writings, without the consent of the authors... to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families: For preventing therefore such practices for the future, and for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books… Statute of Anne (1710)
14. Oscar Wilde nr 18 by Napoleon Sarony “entirely from his own mental conception, to which he gave visible form” ”useful, new, harmonious, characteristic, and graceful picture.”
20. Blogger 1999 2001 2003 2005 2000 2002 2004 2006 Wikipedia The Social Decade
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26. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
57. Don’t be greedy The expansion of copyright to include more forms of expression essentially weakens copyright as a whole.
58. Free Digitalization of cultural artifacts Limit terms of protection Allow refusal of copyright Allow creative use Public domain protections Resolve Orphan issues Promote Multiple Creators From My list
Malcom X from KeokiSeu cc by ncsaThe conflict between morals & law. That millions of people do the same doesn't make it more legal. But does it make it right?
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Message in a Bottle by night86mare cc by ncsaFranz Boas 1887 "Museums of Ethnology and their claissification" Science 9: 589Right & wrong are therefore relative concepts
A 1631 King James Bible, known as the "Wicked Bible,” contains an error in Exodus 20:14, where the Seventh Commandment reads, "Thou shalt commit adultery." The printers, Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, are said to have been fined 300 pounds for the offense, a huge sum at that time, and had their printers' license revoked. It is believed that only 11 of the original 1,000 have survived.
Tripita Hugo from @Serg1o cc by nc saStatute of Anne 1710LAG OM ÄGANDERÄTT TILL SKRIFT (1877)
Untitled from Kennedy Garrett cc byExpansion of what it protects (Learned men Culture)Expansion in length of protectionExpansion of expressions (Text Images Buildings etc)Internationalization
Oscar Wilde nr 18 av Napoleon SaronyBurrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53 (1884).
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The Battleship Potemkin 1925 - Odessa Steps scene – director Sergei M. Eisenstein
The Untouchables (1987) film directed by Brian De Palma
Kill Bill part 1 & 2 (2003) & (2004) by writer/director Quentin Tarantino
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Sheep standing in the cold from P!XELTREE cc by ncsaI shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,’ And that has made all the difference.Robert Frost (1874–1963). "The Road Not Taken” in Mountain Interval.1920.
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mud city, mud people from a hundred visions and revisions cc byIn Antigone Sophocles presented a situation where the King was defied and the women buried their dead relatives against his orders. They claimed their right came from God. There were two sources of law: god & the state. Today Bi-centric regulation is a luxury.
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