Marjorie Heins, Tricia Beckles: Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (2005)

Are increasingly heavy assertions of control by copyright and trademark owners smothering fair use and free expression? The product of more than a year of research, Will Fair Use Survive? paints a striking picture of an intellectual property system that is out of balance. The report includes six recommendations for policy change.

This report is covered by a Creative Commons “Attribution – No Derivs – NonCommercial” License. You may copy it in its entirety as long as you credit the Brennan Center for Justice, Free Expression Policy Project. You may not edit or revise it, or copy portions, without permission (except, of course,
for fair use).

A Public Policy Report
Publisher: Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law

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Andrej Chudý: Vplyv elektronickej komunikácie na súčasné zmeny v chápaní a zmysle autorstva (2008) [Slovak]

Práca načrtáva spoločenské zmeny, ktoré vedú od hierarchických usporiadaní k sieťovým a rozberá akým spôsobom v tomto prostredí umožňuje elektronická komunikácia remediáciu tradičných médií.

Predstavuje chronológiu koncepcií autorstva v západnej kultúre od antiky po súčasnosť. Bližšie skúma význam Múz v antike i stredoveku, anonymitu stredovekých autorov, vzťah orálneho a písaného. Prechádza od vplyvu kníhtlače k vznikajúcej autorskej profesii a súvisiacej koncepcii romantického autora (autor ako génius). Nahliada na literárne a filozofické chápania autorstva v 20. storočí a všíma si aspekty elektronickej kultúry vplývajúce na autorstvo, písanie v hypertextoch. Venuje sa tiež histórii autorského práva a popisuje iniciatívu Creative Commons ako alternatívu k tradičnému autorskému právu.

Analyzuje akú povahu nadobúda autorstvo v prostredí spoločenských médií (blogy, wiki, spoločenské siete) a ukazuje aspekty distribučných modelov, ktoré si potrebuje autor v elektronickom prostredí osvojiť.

Diplomová práca
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Filozofická fakulta; Katedra knižničnej a informačnej vedy
Školiteľ: PhDr. Pavol Rankov, PhD
Bratislava: FiF UK, 2008.

Electronic communication and current changes in the understanding of the notion of authorship
The work outlines the social changes, reaching from the hierarchical organization to the network society, as well as analyses the remediation of the traditional media in the network environment. In the work, there is presented the chronology of the conceptions of authorship in the western culture from the Ancient Period until present.

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Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite: Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy (2002)

New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other information, creating a global property order dominated by a multinational elite. How did intellectual property rules become part of the World Trade Organization’s free trade agreements? How have these rules changed the knowledge game for international business? What are the consequences for the ownership of biotechnology and digital technology, and for all those who have to pay for what was once shared information? Based on extensive interviews with key players, this book tells the story of these profound transformations in information ownership. The authors argue that in the globalized information society, the rich have found new ways to rob the poor, and shows how intellectual property rights can be more democratically defined.

Publisher Earthscan, 2002
ISBN 1853839175, 9781853839177
253 pages

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