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Copyright: One Size Fits All?Unpacking Sophocles
STEP 1: INTRODUCTION
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA&p=A3A6044F015358F7&playnext=1&index=7
RIGHT & WRONG
STEP 2: HISTORY
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD…
AFFORDANCESspot the ethical dilemma?
WORDS & 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…
THE EXPANSION OF COPYRIGHT
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.”
THE SOCIAL
CENTURY
Increase of user generated content
DIGITALIZATION
CONNECTIVITY
DEVICES
STORAGE
WHEN THE THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE BECOMES
THE INEVITABLE
2000
2001
2002
2003 2005
2004 2006
Wikipedia
Blog
ger 1
999
The Social Decade
2000
2001
2002
2003 2005
2004 2006
Wikipedia
Blog
ger 1
999
Second Life
My Space
Skype
Digg
YouTube
Flickr
Ning
Google c:a 1998
Flickr
2000
2001
2002
2003 2005
2004 2006
Wikipedia
Blog
ger 1
999
Second Life
My Space
Skype
Digg
Ning
YouTube
Spotify
Google c:a 1998
2008
2007 2009
Farmville
iphone
Wikileaks
CLASH OF NORMS? END OF THE
PASSIVE CONSUMPTION
STEP 3: INTERPRETATION
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.
2006 2007
STEP 4: LAW & MORALITY
LAW REGULATES WHAT IS, NOT WHAT SHOULD BE
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
Traditional Knowledge
Remix
PureDownloading
creating artificial barriers
Samir by Max Gustafson
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
Contextual & programmed social
rules
NORMS FROM ABOVE
Anti-Piracy Advertisementhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5SmrHNWhak
ANTI-PIRACY AD
Did Nietzsche kill god?
WE THE PEOPLE NO LONGER
RESPECT…
WE RESPOND
The IT Crowd - Series 2 - Episode 3: Piracy warning parodyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNfynI8bdA
IT CROWD PARODY
STEP 5: WHAT TO DO?
“THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS”
DO WE NEED MORE POETS?
TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD, AND I - I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY,’ AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
Robert Frost
WE MUST ADAPT
EITHER ARGUE BETTER… OR…
“they” will respond
Sophocles had it easy! POLYCENTRIC REGULATION
ABANDON THE HEAVY HANDEDSINGLE TOOL APPROACH
DON’T BE GREEDYThe expansion of copyright to include more forms of expression essentially weakens copyright as a whole.
FROM MY LIST
Free Digitalization of cultural artifactsLimit terms of protectionAllow refusal of copyrightAllow creative usePublic domain protectionsResolve Orphan issuesPromote Multiple Creators
THANK YOU.
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