The Commons Sector(of creativity & culture)

….and countless others.

The public domain(as viewed by copyright traditionalists)

Jack Valenti:

“A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. Who, then, will invest the funds to renovate and nourish its future life when no one owns it?”Photo by Matthew Bradley, via Flickr, licensed

under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

Richard Stallman as “Saint IGNUtius”

Software as a Commons

Free Software Foundation’s logo, GNU General Public License (GPL),

or “copyleft.”

GNU: Four Freedoms

00 To run the program, for any purpose.

01 To study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.

02 To redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

03 To improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

The Great Copyright & Trademark Blowout

Photo by Justin Gaurav Murgal, via Flicker, licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.

The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

Author’s lifetime + 70 years For corporations, 95 years

Digital Millenium Copyright Act

Trademark dilution & tarnishment

Shrinkage in fair use rights

…and a whole lotta bullying by copyright and trademark owners.

Everything “born copyrighted”

Photo by Robert Scobie, via Flickr, licensed under a Creative Commons BY license.

How to make sharing legal on the Internet?

Six Basic CC Licenses

Attribution

Attribution Non-Commercial

Attribution No Derivatives

Attribution ShareAlike

Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

“The Great Value Shift”

Explosion of highly efficient, user-driven value-creation on open platforms.

Socially created value

is becoming a macro-economic and cultural

force in its own right.

The commons is generative

(no “tragedy of the commons”)GNU Linux / free software remix musicwikis video mashupscollaborative websites social networking

(Facebook)blogosphere open access scholarly

publishingphotosharing (Flickr) Craigslistpodcasting Internet Archive

Photo by Patrick H. Lauke, via Flickr, licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.

Cory Doctorow

Nine Inch Nails

1. The sharing economy

goes global.

2. The rise of open business models.

3. The Open Educational

Resources (OER) movement

4. The science commons

5. A new species of citizenship?

The Digital Citizen honors:

Open access

Freedom to participate

Transparency

Talent & innovation

Social equity

Decentralized authority “Freedom is participation in power.”

--Cicero

The commons -- a new social metabolism in our cultural ecosystem for governance & law

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