INFORMATION IS CORRECT,

KNOWLEDGE IS RELEVANT

COPYRIGHT IS ALL ABOUT FIXATION

FIXATION IS ALL ABOUT TECHNOLOGY &

SOCIAL NORMS

I DO NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, BUT I'LL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT. VOLTAIRE

Technology 300 years ago

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

AFFORDANCES spot the ethical dilemma?

Language technology

AUTHORSHIP & COPYRIGHT ARE INVENTIONS OF TECHNOLOGY

Exodus 20:14

THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

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)

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.

User generated content

THE SOCIAL CENTURY

Monopolies in copying & delivery systems

Lag (1960) om upphovsrtt till litterra och konstnrliga verk

LAG (1960) OM UPPHOVSRTT TILL LITTERRA OCH KONSTNRLIGA VERK

dead TRee as NORM

Whats protected?
Almost everything!

VERKSHJD

BIRD RED SLICE by Koko (1984)

Donald Duck by Walt Disney

Arne Anka av Charlie Christensen

idea/expression dichotomy

A RIDICULOUSLY BRIEF HISTORY OF COMPUTING

GENERATION ZERO

HOLLERITH

WORLD WIDE WEB (AN OPEN STANDARD)

Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

THE DIGITAL IS THE ORIGINAL & EVERYTHING IS COPY

INTERFACES OF KNOWLEDGE

Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything thats invented between when youre fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after youre thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

LIFE & DEATH OF BUSINESS MODELS

Why pirate? Because we can? Because we must? Because we dont care?

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digitalization

Analog / Digital
Copy inferior Limited nr of copies Copying in real time Cost There is no copy Infinite nr Timeless Without cost

two dominant truths

cash, No Creation 2. Everything Is property

1. No

Two incredible & strange ideas that WORKED

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

But geeks are different?

WALES PROVED STALLMANS IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS

Yet we still cling to the analogue myths.

Google 1999

Blogger 1999

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