LibriVox Tyrannie du copyright By Robert S. BoyntonPublished: January 25, 2004 Last fall, a group of civic-minded students at Swarthmore College received a sobering lesson in the future of political protest. They had come into possession of some 15,000 e-mail messages and memos -- presumably leaked or stolen -- from Diebold Election Systems, the largest maker of electronic voting machines in the country. The memos featured Diebold employees' candid discussion of flaws in the company's software and warnings that the computer network was poorly protected from hackers. Unfortunately for the students, their actions ran afoul of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (D.M.C.A.), one of several recent laws that regulate intellectual property and are quietly reshaping the culture. After persistent challenges by the students -- and a considerable amount of negative publicity for Diebold -- in November the company agreed not to sue.
News: UC Joins Google Library Project The University of California is joining Google's book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement. The deal covers all the libraries in UC's 10-campus system, marking the biggest expansion of Google's effort to convert millions of library books into digital form since a group of authors and publishers sued last fall to derail a project launched 20 months ago. "We think this is a pretty significant step forward," said Adam Smith, the group product manager overseeing Google's book-scanning initiative. UC joins three other major U.S. universities — Stanford, Michigan and Harvard — that are contributing their vast library collections to Google's crusade to ensure reams of knowledge written on paper makes the transition to the digital age. The project is expected to last years and cost tens of millions of dollars — a bill that Google is footing.
¡Copiad, malditos! derechos de autor en la era digital - elegant mob films Définition (en) What is "Free Culture?" Perhaps one could begin by asking, what does a free culture look like? If you like our answers to that question, or at least find them intriguing, then maybe you'll be interested in reading our attempts at nailing down some concrete parts of a definition of free culture. Like everything else on this site, it is a work in progress... feel free to contribute! Lessig's free culture - Lawrence Lessig coined the term, but how have we changed or expanded the meaning? Watch "Free Culture", a flash presentation (with mp3 audio and transcript) by Lawrence Lessig, to hear it from the man himself. Read the Free Culture Manifesto. Hey folks, check out this draft of a "What is FreeCulture.org?" Free Culture Intro Freeculture.org is the organizing center for a new student political movement, sitting at the intersection of technology and the arts. Defend and expand fair use rights and the cultural commons. This is a defining moment for the future of technology and culture.
Students for Free Culture Students for Free Culture is sometimes referred to as "FreeCulture", "the Free Culture Movement", and other variations on the "free culture" theme, but none of those are its official name. It is officially Students for Free Culture, as set for in the new bylaws that were ratified by its chapters on October 1, 2007, which changed its name from FreeCulture.org to Students for Free Culture.[3] Goals[edit] Students for Free Culture has stated its goals in a "manifesto": 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. It has yet to publish a more "official" mission statement, but some of its goals are: Purpose[edit] According to its website,[5] Students for Free Culture has four main functions within the free culture movement: History[edit] Initial stirrings at Swarthmore College[edit] The OPG v. FreeCulture.org launches at Swarthmore[edit] Internet campaigns[edit] Structure[edit]
Libre Accès : " Ni SACEM, Ni Jamendo ! " À l'heure où certaines menaces planent sur la neutralité d'internet, des modèles économiques de rémunération de la création commencent à s'affronter. Récemment, l'entreprise luxembourgeoise Jamendo a lancé un pavé dans la mare en annonçant son projet de sonoriser des lieux commerciaux avec de la musique provenant de sa plateforme. Ce projet entre directement en conflit avec la SACEM, qui jusqu'ici, en France était la seule interlocutrice de ces lieux. Nous assistons à une nouvelle forme de libéralisation de la culture, où une plateforme de musique en vient à commercialiser des œuvres en libre diffusion, en se posant comme concurrente d'une société de gestion de droits d'auteurs. Cette attaque d'une société commerciale démontre certainement le grand désarroi d'auteurs qui ne font plus confiance à une société de gestion censée les représenter. Il est dommageable que la politique de certaines Sociétés de Gestion en Europe ne semble pas plus morale que le business d'une startup internet.
Qu'est-ce que c'est ? (en) A free culture is one where critics don't just vote thumbs-up or thumbs-down on a movie but seriously discuss how a movie could be improved -- and then someone reads their critique and goes out and does it. [1] [2] A free culture is one where being a cover band doesn't lose you any street cred compared to doing your own music from scratch -- and where it starts to become hard to tell the difference. [3] A free culture is one where bad old TV series and movies turn into brilliant remakes and fan fiction on a regular basis -- and bad remakes and fan fiction themselves generate brilliant ones after a few years. A free culture is one where making a tribute to your favorite book or speculating on a logical continuation of an existing book is just as legal as mocking and satirizing a bad book you don't like. [4] A free culture is one where anyone who wants to can try to build a better mousetrap -- and the world beats a network of paths connecting everyone's front door.
El derecho a leer - Proyecto GNU - Fundación para el software li Esta es una traducción de la página original en inglés. por Richard Stallman Inscríbase a nuestra lista de correo sobre los peligros de los libros electrónicos. Este artículo fue publicado en febrero de 1997 en Communications of the ACM (Vol. 40, Número 2). De El camino a Tycho, una colección de artículos sobre los antecedentes de la Revolución Lunar, publicado en Luna City en 2096. Para Dan Halbert el camino a Tycho comenzó en la universidad, cuando un día Lissa Lenz le pidió prestado el ordenador. Esto puso a Dan en un dilema. Además, no había muchas posibilidades de evitar que la SPA, Software Protection Authority (Autoridad de Protección del Software) lo descubriese. Quizá Lissa no pretendía leer sus libros. Más tarde Dan descubrió que había habido un tiempo en el que todo el mundo podía ir a una biblioteca y leer artículos, incluso libros, sin tener que pagar. Por supuesto que había formas de evitar los controles de la SPA y de la Oficina Central de Licencias, pero eran ilegales.
Home - AcaWiki Free culture movement The movement objects to overly-restrictive copyright laws. Many members of the movement argue that such laws hinder creativity. They call this system "permission culture Creative Commons is an organization started by Lawrence Lessig which provides licenses that permit sharing under various conditions, and also offers an online search of various Creative Commons-licensed works. The free culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is aligned with the free software movement. Background[edit] In 1998, the United States Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act which President Clinton signed into law. In 1999, Lessig challenged the Bono Act, taking the case to the US Supreme Court. In 2001, Lessig initiated Creative Commons, an alternative “some rights reserved” licensing system to the default “all rights reserved” copyright system. Organizations[edit] The organization commonly associated with free culture is Creative Commons (CC), founded by Lawrence Lessig.
Copyfight: the politics of IP SOL: Semana de Obras Libres | Free culture/Culture libre (gratuite) C'est quoi la "Free culture" ? La Free culture correspond à la culture libre, appelée aussi le libre, qui s'appuie sur la notion de bien public et qui, de fait, est d'accès gratuit = libre = free. Musique Écoute libre Deezer : La majorité des titres en écoute sur ce site ont été fournis par les internautes eux-mêmes. Il existe d'autres sites du même genre, mais certains sont encore en discussion/conflits avec la SACEM et organismes équivalents. Musique libre Sur ces sites, la musique est en écoute gratuite, et leur diffusion ne dépend pas des majors. Labels "équitables" Ces labels de musique en ligne vendent les créations d'artistes qui ont signé chez eux, à l'instar des grandes maisons de disque (EMI, Sony-BMG, Universal...). Selon les sites, l'écoute intégrale des albums avant leur achat est possible. Divers Les Artistes avec nous !! Un site officiel celui de Elliot Murphy : et puis : Pour les nostalgiques des grandes années du rock: Jazz :