{"id":8319,"date":"2014-10-24T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:02","slug":"where-copyright-fails-open-licenses-help-creators-build-towards-a-future-of-free-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/24\/where-copyright-fails-open-licenses-help-creators-build-towards-a-future-of-free-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Copyright Fails, Open Licenses Help Creators Build Towards a Future of Free Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the convictions that drew law professor and former EFF board member, Lawrence Lessig, to co-found\u00c2\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was that a narrow and rigid application of copyright law\u00c2\u00a0made no sense<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in the digital age. Copying digital information over long distances and at virtually no cost is what the Internet does best; indeed, it wouldn’t work at all if copying wasn’t possible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If all online copying requires permission\u00e2\u20ac\u201da worldview that Lessig has termed\u00c2\u00a0permission culture<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d then a huge part of our modern systems for conveying and creating knowledge will always require explicit and prior permission to operate to avoid risk of future lawsuits. It is permission culture that leads to absurd results such as the\u00c2\u00a0criminal charges levied against Diego Gomez<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for sharing an academic publication with colleagues online.<\/p>\n

Creative Commons\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand by extension, the broader open access movement that often relies on Creative Commons licenses\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpushes back against this worldview, in favor of an alternative vision of free culture, in which creative and knowledge works are freely exchanged, and where demanding permission for re-use and sharing can be the exception, rather than the rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n

via Where Copyright Fails, Open Licenses Help Creators Build Towards a Future of Free Culture | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creative Commons\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand by extension, the broader open access movement that often relies on Creative Commons licenses\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpushes for an alternative vision of free culture, in which creative and knowledge works are freely exchanged, and where demanding permission for re-use and sharing can be the exception, rather than the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,978,976,979],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-copyright","tag-creators","tag-open-access-week","tag-open-licenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}