British Council udgiver bog om Creative Commons-tænkning, British Library et copyright-manifest

Det delvist statfinansierede British Council og tænketanken Counterpoint udgav idag “Unbounded Freedom: A Guide to Creative Commons Thinking for Cultural Organizations,” skrevet af Rosemary Bechler fra Opendemocracy. Bogen starter med sætningen “So why did I choose to licence my work in this way?”.

Cory Doctorow skriver "It's aimed at policy-makers without a background in copyright issues, so starts from the basics, introducing RMS, CC etc. but quickly brings lots of threads together in a fascinating way. A great read for smart politicians or journalists."Mere her.

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Samtidig har British Library udgivet manifestet "Intellectual Property, a Balance: The British Library Manifesto" der opfordrer til ændringer i den britiske copyrightlov; ellers vil dele af arkivet forsvinde som resultat af forbudet mod at kopiere.

"Libraries should be allowed to make copies of sound and film recordings to ensure they can be preserved for posterity in the future.
Currently the law does not permit copying of sound and film items for preservation. Without the right to make copies, the UK is losing a large part of its recorded culture. The British Library Sound Archive is one of the largest archives of music in the world with over a million discs, 185,000 tapes and holdings of every other medium upon which sound can be recorded. As the Library is not able to make copies of items, many original audio and film formats we hold are becoming increasingly more fragile and require the urgent creation of a preservation surrogates or face irretrievable decay. We recommend that copying for preservation purposes is extended to all copyrightable works as is the case in many other countries".

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OPDATERET 3/10:

Den canadiske regering har udgivet et hvidpapir om digital kunst og copyright med titlen "Nailing Down Bits: Digital Art and Intellectual Property".

"This paper is not written from a legal perspective, but from a
cultural heritage community perspective. This perspective is informed
by legal professionals and publications and by direct experience with
intellectual property issues that arise out of the daily practice of
cultural professionals".

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