Galera,
Meu amigo Walter me mandou isso aqui, gostei muito da matéria, deêm uma
olhada, mal ai estar em inglês, quem puder dá um traduzida, estou sem
tempo....
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*SAN FRANCISCO--What Linux has done for operating systems, the Internet
should do for content, a prominent lawyer and activist urged Tuesday.*
Lawrence Lessig railed against prevailing copyright laws and urged use of
his alternative creation, the Creative Commons license, speaking to
attendees of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. The license permits
content such as music, video, photos or text to be reused and
augmented by
others in the same way that the open-source and free software movement
permits programs to be copied and modified.
Stanford Law School professor
Lessig<http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lessig.org%2F&siteId=22&oId=2100-9588-6105805&ontId=9588&lop=nl.ex>noted
that Department of Justice lawyers attacking Microsoft for its Windows
monopoly fixated on IBM's vanquished rival, OS/2. But Linux showed that
decentralized, nonproprietary operating systems were viable, he said.
"The fight for free culture is harder than the fight for free software.
There were no laws against free software, but there are laws that
essentially block free culture," Lessig said.
In Lessig's view of the world, lawyers, lobbyists and politicians are
building a world of "read only" cultural content. It's "culture that,
like
potato chips, is to be consumed, not created," he said. In contrast, the
Internet is fostering "read-write" content that is collaboratively
produced
and remixed <http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6102451.html?tag=nl> by
groups of people exchanging information.
"Copyright presumptively conflicts with the read-write Internet. Every
single use requires regulation permission to be granted presumptively,"
Lessig said.
The Creative
Commons<http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2F&siteId=22&oId=2100-9588-6105805&ontId=9588&lop=nl.ex>license
is essentially an end run around that copyright law, and Lessig
boasted of its success in the last four years: As of June, 140 million
content items on the Internet link back to the license, and Google and
Yahoo
search engines can filter for content using the license.
Lessig showed a variety of videos that mix animations or news footage
with
music to illustrate how copyrighted material can be combined to produce
political commentary or humor. Such remixing will happen whether or not
there's a legal framework for it, but Lessig argued in favor of
building one
that doesn't label the activity as piracy.
"You must ask whether the values built into our society--to ignore the
rule
of law--are the values we want to raise our children to understand," he
said.
*Free networks*
Linux has demonstrated that it's possible to build operating systems and
software that lets customers bypass Microsoft's control. The Creative
Commons, Lessig hopes, will do the same in letting people exchange
content
without reliance on entrenched media powers.
At a lower level, the technology that routes data across the Internet,
TCP/IP, is an open protocol. But the physical networks used by TCI/IP
give
industry players another point to control the flow of information, Lessig
said.
Lessig argued that networks need not be closed and proprietary, however,
because wireless networks provide a way to bypass the "last mile" of
networks that today link customers to networking companies.
"Everyone is focused on the only possible way to build broadband
infrastructure, to turn over the soul of the Internet to Comcast and
AT&T. I
wonder if we're not missing something," he said. "There's an explosion of
municipal and ad-hoc wireless networks. The people building them will
have
no incentive to control how people use the network. As you see these
miniclouds exploding above cities, the last-mile problem is solved."
Networking companies have lobbied aggressively against government-funded
wireless networks, arguing that it competes with private-sector services.
But people need to look carefully at what the role of governments in
supplying infrastructure before labeling supporters of publicly funded
wireless networks as Communists, Lessig said.
Nobody complains that there aren't private companies competing to build
streetlights to supply photons when it's dark, Lessig said. "We have this
weird disconnect between what we take for granted about local
infrastructure
services," he said.
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