scholarly journals Resisting the Resistance: Resisting Copyright and Promoting Alternatives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Frosio
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Global Movements

This article discusses the resistance to the Digital Revolution and the emergence of a social movement “resisting the resistance.” Mass empowerment has political implications that may provoke reactionary counteractions. Ultimately—as I have discussed elsewhere—resistance to the Digital Revolution can be seen as a response to Baudrillard’s call to a return to prodigality beyond the structural scarcity of the capitalistic market economy. In Baudrillard’s terms, by increasingly commodifying knowledge and expanding copyright protection, we are taming limitless power with artificial scarcity to keep in place a dialectic of penury and unlimited need. In this paper, I will focus on certain global movements that do resist copyright expansion, such as creative commons, the open access movement, the Pirate Party, the A2K movement and cultural environmentalism. A nuanced discussion of these campaigns must account for the irrelevance of copyright in the public mind, the emergence of new economics of digital content distribution in the Internet, the idea of the death of copyright, and the demise of traditional gatekeepers. Scholarly and market alternatives to traditional copyright merit consideration here, as well. I will conclude my review of this movement “resisting the resistance” to the Digital Revolution by sketching out a roadmap for copyright reform that builds upon its vision.

scholarly journals How A Citizen Scientist Can Reuse & Link Biodiversity Heritage Library Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25298
Author(s):  
Siobhan Leachman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Citizen Scientist ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Internet Search Engine ◽  
Effective Dissemination ◽  
Biodiversity Information

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) provides open access to over 54 million pages of biodiversity literature. Much of this literature is either in the public domain or is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons framework. Anyone can therefore freely reuse much of the information and data provided by BHL. This presentation will outline how the work of a citizen scientist using BHL content might benefit research scientists. It will discuss how a citizen scientist can reuse and link BHL literature and data in Wikipedia and Wikidata. It will explain the research efficiencies that can be obtained through this reuse and linking, for example through the consolidation of database identifiers. The presentation will outline the subsequent reuse of the BHL data added to Wikipedia and Wikidata by the internet search engine Google. It will discuss an example of the linking of this information in the citizen science observation platform iNaturalist. The presentation will explain how BHL, as a result of its open reuse licensing of information and data, helps in the creation of more accurate citizen science generated biodiversity data and assists with the wider and more effective dissemination of biodiversity information.

Intellectual Property Challenges in Digital Library Environments

2018 ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
James Macharia Tutu
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Copyright Ownership ◽  
The Right

Intellectual property poses a major challenge to digital libraries. This is because access to information in digital libraries is limited by laws, licenses and technology adopted by intellectual property owners. Similarly, intellectual property renders it difficult for digital libraries to make orphan works discoverable and accessible. Furthermore, intellectual property fragments copyright ownership, making it difficult for digital libraries to obtain the right clearance on content. To cope with these challenges, digital libraries have embraced the open access movement which allows reading, copying, downloading and sharing of digital content as long as the creators of the works are cited and acknowledged. Besides, digital libraries offer access to digital works produced under creative commons licenses. These licenses give the copyright owners the liberty to modify the copyright of their works to give room for sharing, use, and building upon the work.

scholarly journals Re-Imagining Digital Copyright Through the Power of Imitation: Lessons from Confucius and Plato

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Frosio
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Hindu Kush ◽  
Creative Experience

For millennia, Western and Eastern culture shared a common creative paradigm. From Confucian China, across the Hindu Kush with the Indian Mahābhārata, the Bible, the Koran and the Homeric epics, to Platonic mimēsis and Shakespeare’s “borrowed feathers,” our culture was created under a fully open regime of access to pre-existing expressions and re-use. Creativity used to be propelled by the power of imitation. However, modern policies have largely forgotten the cumulative and collaborative nature of creativity. Actually, the last three decades have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of intellectual property rights in sharp contrast with the open and participatory social norms governing creativity in the networked environment. Against this background, this paper discusses the reaction to traditional copyright policy and the emergence of a social movement re-imagining copyright according to a common tradition focusing on re-use, collaboration, access and cumulative creativity. This reaction builds upon copyright’s growing irrelevance in the public mind, especially among younger generations in the digital environment, because of the emergence of new economics of digital content distribution in the Internet. Along the way, the rise of the users, and the demise of traditional gatekeepers, forced a process of reconsideration of copyright’s rationale and welfare incentives. Scholarly and market alternatives to traditional copyright have been plenty, attempting to reconcile pre-modern, modern and post-modern creative paradigms. Building upon this body of research, proposals and practice, this Article will finally try to chart a roadmap for reform that reconnects Eastern and Western creative experience in light of a common past, looking for a shared future.

Open Educational Resources in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Stephen Tsekea
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Digital Learning Resources

The open access movement came as a result of the rising cost of learning materials and the need for having publicly funded research or works available on the public domain. This is a movement which is in support of having educational learning resources freely available on the internet. Despite the intellectual properly issues surrounding use of learning resources, many institutions in Africa are adopting these digital learning resources. The chapter documents how the OER movement started, its advantages and disadvantages, copyright and licensing issues, models, and challenges in adopting OERs.

Intellectual Property Challenges in Digital Library Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-234
Author(s):  
James Macharia Tutu
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Copyright Ownership ◽  
The Right

Intellectual property poses a major challenge to digital libraries. This is because access to information in digital libraries is limited by laws, licenses and technology adopted by intellectual property owners. Similarly, intellectual property renders it difficult for digital libraries to make orphan works discoverable and accessible. Furthermore, intellectual property fragments copyright ownership, making it difficult for digital libraries to obtain the right clearance on content. To cope with these challenges, digital libraries have embraced the open access movement which allows reading, copying, downloading and sharing of digital content as long as the creators of the works are cited and acknowledged. Besides, digital libraries offer access to digital works produced under creative commons licenses. These licenses give the copyright owners the liberty to modify the copyright of their works to give room for sharing, use, and building upon the work.

Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bryans ◽  
Albert Camarillo ◽  
Swati Chattopadhyay ◽  
Jon Christensen ◽  
Sharon Leon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public History ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age

The digital revolution has transformed research, exhibition, writing, review, participatory public engagement, and every other aspect of history practice. To consider the influence of these changes on The Public Historian, the journal has solicited the perspectives of six scholars with expertise on digital history to reflect on what the internet age affords TPH as a scholarly journal for the field of public history.

scholarly journals Informação Pública e Governo Eletrônico na Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia │ Public information and electronic government

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Carlos Sales dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Informational Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
The Public ◽  
Content Information

Resumo Com o potencial de interatividade e compartilhamento de conteúdos em rede, os governos viabilizam condições diversas de acesso a informações governamentais, prerrogativa essencial para a consolidação da transparência política no processo democrático. Neste contexto, e compreendida como órgão governamental produtor de informações públicas, a Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia – ALBA também procura disponibilizar conteúdos digitais orientados à sociedade. O artigo do presente artigo é analisar o modus operandi dos dispositivos comunicacionais utilizados para a disseminação e consecução de conteúdos informacionais públicos através do website da ALBA, engendrada nas estruturas de prestação de serviços propostas pelo Governo Eletrônico. Discutem-se os aspectos conceituais do governo eletrônico, as perspectivas e propostas focalizadas no marco legal brasileiro, para apresentar as possíveis aproximações da Assembleia com as categorias previstas no governo eletrônico. O roteiro de entrevista orientado aos responsáveis administrativos do website da ALBA, e a observação sistematizada do sítio, constituíram os principais instrumentos de coleta de dados. A conclusão evidencia que o site analisado respondeu satisfatoriamente à disponibilidade de informações relacionadas aos parlamentares, mas, no plano ‘interatividade’, a pesquisa apresentou uma relativa ineficácia administrativa para responder às demandas dos cidadãos.Palavras-chave Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia – ALBA, Governo Eletrônico, Conteúdos Informacionais Digitais, Informação Pública.Abstract As a governmental producer of public information, the Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia – ALBA offers political oriented digital content to citizens, as a prerogative to transparency of government activities. These informational digital content require consistent with the interest of the public and the audience to meet the essential conditions for the exercise of democracy. The internet booking capabilities for the production, dissemination and preservation of information produced in the public sector. From these considerations, the goal of this article is to analyze the modus operandi of the devices used for dissemination and achievement of public informational content via the website of ALBA, based on the structures to provide services proposed by Gov. Discuss conceptual aspects of e-Government, the perspectives and proposals focused on the Brazilian legal framework, to present the possible approximations of the Assembly with the categories provided for in e-Government. This article part of successful results in dissertation research developed by the author at the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação at the Universidade Federal da Bahia – PPGCIUFBA.Keywords Assembleia Legislativa da Bahia – ALBA, Electronic Government, Digital Content Information, Public Information   

scholarly journals KELAS ONLINE UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PENERAPAN PROTOKOL KESEHATAN DI MASYARAKAT SELAMA PANDEMI COVID19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Aditya Sukma Pawitra
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Online Class ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Access Information ◽  
The Government

Health protocol is one of the main keys in dealing with the spread of the corona virus. The government and health communicators face serious challenges when educating the public to always use masks, keep their distance and wash their hands with soap. Especially in the digital era of information, all people can access information on the internet without limits. The spread of hoaxes and infodemics has further reduced public compliance in implementing health protocols. The purpose of implementing this community service is to prevent the spread of the infodemics so that the public can play a positive role in preventing the transmission of COVID19 by implementing proper health protocols. The community service method was carried out by implementing online classes using the WhatsApp group platform and zoom meetings. The number of participants involved was 112 people. Small discussion always happened every day both among the participants and with the community service team. Information provided to participants in the form of posters / flyers. The online class was held for 3 months starting in July 2020. Measurement of participants' understanding was carried out at the beginning and at the end of the activity through google form. The analysis showed that online class delivery was effective, as indicated by a positive and significant increase in understanding of the variables of masks, maintaining distance and washing hands with soap. So it might be concluded that by providing information intensively and through small discussion, the public will increasingly understand the conditions of the pandemic and will play a role in breaking the chain of transmission of COVID19abstrak  10.20473/jlm.v5i1.2021.9-18 Open acces under CC BY-SA license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Protokol kesehatan menjadi salah satu kunci utama dalam menangani meluasnya persebaran virus corona. Pemerintah dan komunikator kesehatan menghadapi tantangan berat saat memberikan sosialisasi kepada masyarakat agar terbiasa selalu menggunakan masker, menjaga jarak dan selalu mencuci tangan dengan sabun. Terlebih di era digital informasi, seluruh masyarakat dapat mengakses informasi di internet tanpa batas. Merebaknya berita hoaks dan infodemi semakin mengurangi kepatuhan masyarakat dalam menjalankan protokol kesehatan. Tujuan pelaksanaan pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah untuk mencegah menyebarnya infodemi sehingga masyarakat dapat berperan positif dalam mencegah penularan COVID19 dengan menerapkan protokol kesehatan dengan benar. Metode pengabdian masyarakat dilakukan dengan pelaksanaan kelas online menggunakan platform whatsapp group dan zoom meeting. Jumlah peserta yang terlibat 112 orang. Diskusi ringan selalu terjadi setiap hari baik di kalangan peserta maupun dengan tim pengabdian masyarakat. Informasi yang diberikan kepada peserta berupa poster/flyer. Pelaksaan kelas online ini dilakukan selama 3 bulan dimulai sejak bulan Juli 2020. Pengukuran pemahaman peserta dilakukan diawal dan di akhir kegiatan melalui google form. Analisis menunjukkan penyampaian kelas online berjalan efektif yang ditunjukkan dengan peningkatan pemahaman yang positif dan signifikan pada variabel masker, jaga jarak dan cuci tangan pakai sabun. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa dengan pemberian informasi secara intensif dan melalui diskusi ringan, masyarakat akan semakin memahami kondisi pandemik dan akan berperan dalam memutus rantai penularan COVID19. 

scholarly journals Sette scritti politici liberi

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Immanuel Kant
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Open Access ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Public University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Political Works ◽  
The French Revolution

At the end of the eighteenth century, before and during the French Revolution, Kant wrote intensively about politics. This book brings together the translations of his principal philosophical-political works, with the editor's annotations, from the essay on Enlightenment through to the writing on progress. The texts are subject to a Creative Commons licence, so that they can be amended without restrictions, retaining the same rights. Open access publication alone can achieve freedom in the public use of reason. The decision to free a classic work from economic monopoly and censure is intended to demonstrate that open access is not an academic theory but a reality that can give value and meaning to the establishment of a public university. Making Kant read means much more than merely reading him.

Investigating the public in the Public Library of Science: Gifting economics in the Internet community

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Tschider
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Internet Community ◽  
Scientific Scholarship

Countless critics of the open access movement have cited the Budapest–Bethesda–Berlin open access principles as responsible for unsustainable business models and a dilution of the efficacy of scientific scholarship or “impact.” Impact factors measure a journal’s primacy in academic scholarship, and it reflects how frequently a journal’s articles are cited. Much to the surprise of open access critics, PLoS Biology recently achieved a high impact factor of 13.9 after only two years of publishing, a feat rarely accomplished even in more traditional print journals. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) employed the most liberal interpretation of the Budapest–Bethesda–Berlin (BBB) open access (OA) principles when creating its inaugural journal, PLoS Biology, after extensive OA advocacy efforts. BBB principles encourage open access for all individuals with an Internet connection and free use of all information for any educational purposes, including the creation of derivative works. This study explores new OA research methodologies for measuring an OA technology’s effect on the Internet community. I will analyze linking patterns from a variety of Web categories to individual PLoS Biology articles from November 2004, a one–month, investigatory glimpse into who cites these articles and how this compares to Google Scholar citations of the same article. I will describe two principles involved in the scientific OA transaction: the “gifting” of scientific articles and the further proliferation of this scientific information being given back to the community in the form of citation. Drawing on Marcel Mauss, I will highlight how the concept of “gifting” deviates from “sharing” in an Internet environment. I will conclude by highlighting the public citation finding in order to investigate the “public” in the Public Library of Science.

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