On 3/1/07, Dana Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, Janet, if you thought I was name calling! I was only saying > that the work so far has been largely fun and a learning experience - > so fear not that CC might have "wasted" resources on TOT. > > But I am merely a humble student of the law, so your comments below > about big picture ideas are beyond my area of expertise. They sound > great and will, I hope, be very useful to the others here who are > better suited than I to "think big." > > All the best, > Dana
I am not a lawyer, I am not a coder. I work on design and art projects and Ive been doing some writing and community computing work. I am just a person looking for forwards. I feel there is a wider scope which it would be great if there was room to support. Imagine there are two streams of projects in CC Creative Copyright and Creative Commons. The first point will be the intra copyright response, the second will be the commons first response. Access to research - tot - partnership with a2k academics to see how their change of priority for research to be available to all after 6 months impacts law and business models around research use it as a case study. show how the value is generated. support their move towards a commons. Photo of a child(orphan works) - orphan works register with rights for the photographer - avoid a register as this model generates an expectation of rivalrous copyright, eg there can only be one of these. recognition/attribution for the varied persons who may have contributed to the photo rights to use the photo being available to each of those and also available to people generally as a piece of cultural representation of ourselves. Perhaps a core value being a right for the person in the photo, or their parent if the person is a minor to have a say in how the image is used. Matrix of rights - spectrum with sharing as a polar opposite of commerce - sharing as a useful model of commerce/value. Game space - rules for individual control of assets and teh space by individuals or game company - exploring ideas around digital citizenship and democracy in digital spaces. I'm sure there are better ways of expressing this but you probably get the gist. There is a different kind of room to move if the priority is to look at the way information operates as a shared resource as well as how it is generated by one or more individuals. People who can see both the individual and the shared role are the people who will help us move forwards, operating from within copyright for me feels like buying real estate in a snow dome. Its a cute space but I know some character is going to come and shake it up because that is the purpose of the space itself. A person who would be interesting in a big picture discussion on copyright and wider approaches would be Peter Drahos. He has looked at the way IP is being wrangled internationally and was a participant in the adelphi charter which was proposing some fundamental information access rights. CPTech folks have also been working at the coal face at WIPO and are looking at A2K approaches. http://cgkd.anu.edu.au/menus/publications.php#drahos Janet _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
