Digitalization of culture and Creative Commons

The digitalization of modern life and the Creative Commons

Mathias Klang @klang67

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

“...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)

Siberian/Thuvan throat singing

STEP 1: STATE THE OBVIOUS

DIGITALIZATION CHANGED EVERYTHING

Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media

TECHNOLOGY controls how and what we interact, create & THINK

AFFORDANCESspot the ethical dilemma?

Language technology

Authorship & copyright are inventions of technology

Exodus 20:14

THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

STATUTE OF ANNE (1710)

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…

Expanding rights

Oscar Wilde nr 18 av Napoleon Sarony

“entirely from his own mental conception, to which he gave visible form” ”useful, new, harmonious, characteristic, and graceful picture.”

THE SOCIAL

CENTURY

User generated content

Monopolies in copying & delivery systems

Lag (1960) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk

LAG (1960) OM UPPHOVSRÄTT TILL LITTERÄRA OCH KONSTNÄRLIGA VERK

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.

What’s protected?

Almost everything!

”VERKSHÖJD” BIRD RED SLICE by Koko (1984)

idea/expression dichotomy

Donald Duck by Walt Disney Arne Anka av Charlie Christensen

copying

digitalization

Analog / Digital

• Copy inferior• Limited nr of copies• Copying in real time• Cost

• There is no copy• Infinite nr• Timeless• Without cost

LIFE & DEATH OF

BUSINESS MODELS

Why pirate? Because we can? Because we must? Because we don’t care?

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LAW & MORALITY

LAW REGULATES WHAT IS, NOT WHAT SHOULD BE

STEP 2: LAW & ETHICS TAXONOMY

ethical

unethical

legalillegal

Homage

The Battleship Potemkin 1925 - Odessa Steps scene – director Sergei M. Eisenstein

The Untouchables (1987) film directed by Brian De Palma

ethical

unethical

legalillegal

Cross Culture

Homage

Kill Bill part 1 & 2 (2003) & (2004) by writer/director Quentin Tarantino

ethical

unethical

legalillegal

AMV Homage

Cross Culture

FMA AMV Gimme a Man After Midnight - Abba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xB-RFOZDs

ethical

unethical

legalillegal

Homage

? Cross Culture

AMV

creating artificial barriers

Law

Contextual & programmed social

rules

Architecture

Contextual & programmed social

rules

NORMS FROM ABOVE

Anti-Piracy Advertisementhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SmrHNWhakANTI-PIRACY AD

REACTION “FROM BELOW”

The IT Crowd - Series 2 - Episode 3: Piracy warning parodyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNfynI8bdA

IT CROWD PARODY

WHAT TO DO?

“THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS”

dead TRee as NORM

two dominant truths

1. No cash, No Creation

2. Everything Is property

DIGITALIZATION

CONNECTIVITY

DEVICES

STORAGE

the theoretically possiblebecomes the inevitable…

the (slow) death of the analog age… or is it?

Two incredible & strange ideas… that WORKED

STALLMAN PROVED EMPIRICALLY THAT ECONOMIC RETURNS WERE NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION…

But geeks are different?

WALES PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS

Yet we still cling to the analogue myths.

Social technology

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

THEORETICAL & POSSIBLE

BECOMES INEVITABLE

Four limitations

How to License

Case law

Germany 2011

Israel 2011: TA 3560/09, 3561/09, Avi Re'uveni v. Mapa inc.

Belgium 2010: 09-1684-A (Lichôdmapwa v. L'asbl Festival de Theatre de Spa)

The Netherlands, 2006: Curry v. Audax

Spain 2006: SGAE v. Fernandez

THANKS!

Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67

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