WILL COPYRIGHT

BE SAVED?

Creativity, Control,
Copyright & Commons
IT ALL BEGAN
IT ALL BEGINS 300 YEARS
AGO
 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…

THINK OF THE
CHILDREN
dead TREE as NORM
2 dominant truths

1. No cash, No Creation
2. Everything Is property
The age of analog passed away
Three CRAZY ideas… that WORKED
STALLMAN proved
EMPIRICALLY that economic
CONTROL was not the BASIS
of production…
WALES’ proved that
STALLMAN’S idea could be
SCALED and include DIVERSE
groups
And still the myth persists…
LESSIG showed: If you give
THEM licenses they WILL use
them…
140 million CC images on Flickr
MEANWHILE
 My Space Digg
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Blogger 1999

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CONTROL BY CULT OF THE
DEAD TREE
FRUSTRATION!!!
CONFLICT
FLIPPING THE
DEFAULT
HOLY GRAIL?
NOT THIS
MOVING DIALOG AWAY
FROM LAW
TO FOCUS ON
CREATIVITY
WITHOUT FEAR
THANK YOU!