Montag, 27. Dezember 2004
Free Culture (.org)
Noch ein alternetistischer Artikel: Das Wiretap Mag gibt
eine wohlwollende Zusammenfassung des studentischen Free-Culture-Movements und
zitiert einen Co-Founder: Most people don't know that the public
domain exists. Some people think that copyright is forever. The
industry is trying to make it that way, but that's not the way it's
been. And that's not the way it should be
Und was
sagt das
Free Culture
Manifesto? Hier komplett: schöne Worte zum Ausdrucken und
Weitersagen. Bitte kopieren und verteilen. (Ja, das dürft ihr. Aber
vorher Lizenz
verstehen. Danke)
The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up,
participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a
top-down, closed, proprietary structure.
We believe that culture is a two-way affair, about participation, not
merely consumption. We will not sit at the end of a one-way media tube
and buy things until we look like the people on Friends. With the
Internet and other advances, the technology exists for a new paradigm
of creation, one where anyone can be an artist, and anyone can
succeed, based not on their industry connections, but on their merit.
We refuse to accept a future of digital feudalism where we do not
actually own the products we buy, but we are merely granted limited
uses of them as long as we pay the rent. We must halt and reverse the
recent radical expansion of "intellectual property rights," which
threaten to reach the point where they trump any and all other rights
of the individual and society.
The freedom to build upon the past is necessary for creativity and
innovation to thrive. We will use and promote our cultural heritage in
the public domain. We will make, share, adapt, and promote Open
Content. We will listen to Free Music, look at Free Art, watch Free
Film, and read Free Books. All the while, we will discuss, annotate,
improve, improvise, remix, mutate, and throw yet more ingredients into
the Free Culture soup.
We will fight to make everyone understand the value of our common
wealth, evangelizing for Linux and the open-source model. We will
resist repressive legislation which threatens our civil liberties and
stifles innovation, such as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and
the proposed Induce Act. We will organize to prevent Microsoft and
others from pushing through hardware-level monitoring devices that
will prevent users from having control of their own machines and their
own data.
We won't allow the RIAA and the MPAA to cling to obsolete modes of
distribution through bad legislation and market dominance. We will be
active participants in a free culture of connectivity and production,
made possible as it never was before by the Internet and digital
technology, and we will fight to prevent this new potential from being
locked down by corporate and legislative control. If we allow the
bottom-up, participatory structure of the Internet to be twisted into
a glorified cable TV service -- if we allow the established paradigm
of creation and distribution to reassert itself -- then the window of
opportunity opened by the Internet will have been closed, and we will
have lost something beautiful, revolutionary, and irretrievable.
The future is in our hands; we must build a technological and cultural
movement to defend the digital commons.
um 23:39 in /netz [#]
Books we like
Die politische US-Aktivistenpublikation Alternet betatestet gerade ein
Buchprovisionskaufprojekt namens Books we like. Bei dieser
Variante geht das Geld beim Onlinekauf an diverse gutartige
Organisationen. Wobei: bei Amazon shoppen und gleichzeitig an
No-Sweat-Shops spenden ist vielleicht auch ein bisschen zweischneidig.
Was natürlich nicht heißt, dass die Buchsklaven bei Amazon
gewerkschaftlich unangemessen schwitzen. Kam mir nur so in den Sinn.
um 22:55 in /biblio [#]
