Notes from the ITP Driveby I taught last night (October 8, 2009, 9:30 PM). Now with audio!
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Description
Copyright, copyleft, copy-what? We will discuss the various copyright/intellectual property issues faced by artists, designers, and other creators of content. Learn how to use Creative Commons and other open licenses to share and protect your work.
Notes
Start with a video: A Shared Culture
What is “intellectual property?”
Is it like real property? Or is it a “mirage”?
Copyright, Patents, and Trademark
What is copyright?
A restriction on free speech?
A temporary monopoly on the use, reproduction, and transmission of a creative work?
Copyright vs. “Right of Authorship?”
The current copyright system is broken
Copyright can be an incentive to creativity, but copyright can also get in the way.
Copies vs. Use
Atoms vs. Bits
Fair use? Free use?
Solutions? Creative Commons is one possibility.
What is CC?
How to use CC licenses
How to license your work
How to find CC-licensed work
What I did last summer – OpenEd
Learn More
Online Resources
Creative Commons – Learn more about Creative Commons the organization, find out how others are using CC licenses, and license your own work
Digital Copyright Slider – tool for determining whether works first published in the US are protected by copyright based on date of first publication
Fair Use Evaluator – online tool to help you better understand how to determine the “fairness” of a use under the US law
Public Domain Sherpa – online “calculator” helps you determine if a given work is in the public domain
Copyright, Commerce, and Culture – NYU course taught by ITP alum and Creative Commons Product Manager Fred Benenson. Lots of links to articles and discussion about copyright.
Video
Good Copy/Bad Copy – Danish documentary about the current state of copyright and culture
RiP: A Remix Manifesto – Canadian documentary film about copyright and remix culture.
Steal This Film – a series of documentaries about the movement against intellectual property
Books (free digital downloads)
CONTENT: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future, Corey Doctorow
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, Lawrence Lessig
Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, Lawrence Lessig
Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law? – comic book that explains copyright basics; Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins
Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own – historical overview of the “digital commons” from GNU/Linux to Creative Commons, David Bollier
Glossaries and Terminology
Brown University Copyright Glossary
Cornell Law School US Copyright Law Definitions
US Copyright Office Definitions
Credits
Video: A Shared Culture
I borrowed some slides from Fred Benenson for my presentation