1. Copyleft in Science, Software and Culture Mathias Klang [email_address]

2. Mumbai is the metaphor This is a city of creation, interpretation, adaptation, imagination, production,reproduction construction, deconstruction…

3. Disruptive Technology Effects of Technology Regulation on Democracy

4. Life is organized around technology (and always has been)

5. The disruption occurs when the technology, which is introduced effects the social arrangements around which we build our lives

7. But let me begin in a strange place…

8. Fountain - Duchamp (1917)

9. “ The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act”

11. Science Without the ability to decipher is “dead” dogma

12. Software Without the ability to decipher is stagnation

13. Culture Without the ability to decipher is unintelligible

14. Copyleft is about maintaining the right to decipher

15. Philosophical Origins The desire to create an infrastructure that encourages deciphering, tinkering and adaptation

16. Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix–compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu’s Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it (Stallman 1983)

17. The problem with freedom …is freedom

19. Copyleft By using copyright law the creator can allow deciphering, tinkering and adaptation - while maintaining these rights in the derived product

22. So much for infrastructure What about science and culture

23. Science is strange in many ways…

25. Culture is at war Or rather: the discourse of war has entered the cultural domain

26. From Consumers to Producers Threatening the “content” industry

27. Copyleft as inspiration Creative Commons Open Access Remix Culture Reclaiming the public sphere

28. These are exciting times & this is going to be an exciting day Thank You!