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June 21, 2005
Copyright, Copyleft, and the Creative Commons
As part of UVM"s Compliance, Regulatory & Legal Issues Training program (June 21, 2005), I've organized a presentation on the development of alternative models to "copyright." The overall flow is
(1) the classical view of copyright as a license for monopolistic publication and the economic impact on artists, writers, etc.,
(2) The development of copyleft, spearheaded by Richard Stallman, as a reaction to the locking down of "common knowledge" computer code by publishers, the open software and open text movement,
(3) the articulation of alternative copyright models by Lawrence Lessig under the umbrella of the creative commons,
Examples cited include:
- Creative Commons at http://creativecommons.org/
- arXive pre-print server at http://arxiv.org/
- Public Library of Science at http://plos.org/
- Internet Archive Site at http://archive.org
- MIT's Open Courseware Site at http://ocw.mit.edu/
- Cory Doctorow's at http://craphound.com/
The powerpoint slides are located in http://www.uvm.edu/
Posted by sjc at June 21, 2005 9:00 AM
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