Freie Netze. Freies Wissen (2007) [German]

Noch nie war es einfacher, Menschen und ihr Wissen in Form von Texten, Bildern oder Tönen zusammenzubringen und zu vernetzen. Freie Netze sind der Versuch, dieses Potential von Internet und PC auszuschöpfen und möglichst alle Menschen daran teilhaben zu lassen.

FREIES WISSEN. Der Zugang zu digitalen Netzen bedeutet noch nicht den Zugang zu Inhalten. Ein freier Zugang zu Wissen ist aber die Basis für Innovation und Emanzipation. Den neuen Möglichkeiten für freien Zugang zu Wissen stehen neue und alte, soziale und rechtliche Barrieren gegenüber.

Von siebzehn Autorinnen und Autoren werden die verschiedenen Anwendungsbereiche von Freien Netzen und Freiem Wissen dargestellt. In jedem der neun Kapitel kommen in Interviews Menschen wie Lawrence Lessig oder Richard Stallman zu Wort, die mit dem Thema als ExpertInnen, PionierInnen oder unmittelbar Betroffene zu tun hatten oder haben. Am Ende jedes Kapitels finden sich konkrete Projektvorschläge zur Umsetzung auf lokaler Ebene als Beitrag für das Linzer Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2009.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Intro
Kapitel 01: Freiheit lieg in der Luft
Kapitel 02: Kreativität in Fesseln
Kapitel 03: Offene Lehre ist freie Lehre ist gute Lehre
Kapitel 04: Freie Software für freie BürgerInnen
Kapitel 05: Zurück in die Zukunft des Internet
Kapitel 06: Ars Electronica Activa
Kapitel 07: Freiheit der Kunst durch freie Werke?
Kapitel 08: Digitale Freiheit für Forschung und ForscherInnen
Kapitel 09: Die Voraussetzungen der Freiheit
Statt eines Glossars: Digitale Freiheit von A bis Z

2007 Wien Echo media verlag ges.m.b.h.
ISBN 3-901761-64-0
Herausgeber: Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Forsterleitner

Inhalt ist unter einer Creative Commons-Lizenz lizenziert.

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Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the “global knowledge-based economy” and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and human development in general.

This book examines major problems in the current IPR regime, particularly the copyright regime, in the context of digitization, knowledge economy, and globalization. The book contends that the final goals of IP law and policy-making are to enhance the progress of science and economic development, and the use and even-distribution of intellectual resource at the global level. By referring to major international IP consensus, recent developments in regional IP forums and the successful experiences of various countries, YiJun Tian is able to provide specific theoretical, policy and legislative suggestions for addressing current copyright challenges. The book contends that each nation should strengthen the coordination of its IP protection and development strategies, adopt a more systematic and heterogeneous approach, and make IP theory, policy, specific legal mechanisms, marketing forces and all other available measures work collectively to deal with digital challenges and in a way that contributes to the establishment of a knowledge equilibrium international society.

Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era
By YiJun Tian
Contributor Jane Winn
Edition: illustrated
Published by Taylor & Francis, 2008
ISBN 0415465346, 9780415465342
338 pages
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CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy

Open source software is considered by many to be a novelty and the open source movement a revolution. Yet the collaborative creation of knowledge has gone on for as long as humans have been able to communicate. CODE looks at the collaborative model of creativity—with examples ranging from collective ownership in indigenous societies to free software, academic science, and the human genome project—and finds it an alternative to proprietary frameworks for creativity based on strong intellectual property rights.

Intellectual property rights, argues Rishab Ghosh in his introduction, were ostensibly developed to increase creativity; but today, policy decisions that treat knowledge and art as if they were physical forms of property actually threaten to decrease creativity, limit public access to creativity, and discourage collaborative creativity. “Newton should have had to pay a license fee before being allowed even to see how tall the ‘shoulders of giants’ were, let alone to stand upon them,” he writes.

The contributors to CODE, from such diverse fields as economics, anthropology, law, and software development, examine collaborative creativity from a variety of perspectives, looking at new and old forms of creative collaboration and the mechanisms emerging to study them. Discussing the philosophically resonant issues of ownership, property, and the commons, they ask if the increasing application of the language of property rights to knowledge and creativity constitutes a second enclosure movement—or if the worldwide acclaim for free software signifies a renaissance of the commons. Two concluding chapters offer concrete possibilities for both alternatives, with one proposing the establishment of “positive intellectual rights” to information and another issuing a warning against the threats to networked knowledge posed by globalization.

CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy
By Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Edition: illustrated
Published by MIT Press, 2005
ISBN 0262072602, 9780262072601
345 pages
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Review (Michel Bauwens)

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