Imagining the World Without Copyright: The Market and Temporary Protection, A Better Alternative for Artists and the Public Domain

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke van Schijndel ◽  
Joost Smiers
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temporary Protection ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Globalization, Knowledge Economy and the implication for Indigenous Knowledge

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Kgomotso H Moahi
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information

This paper considers the impact that globalization and the knowledge economy have on the protection and promotion of indigenous knowledge. It is asserted that globalization and the knowledge economy have opened up the world and facilitated the flow of information and knowledge. However, the flow of knowledge has been governed by uneven economic and political power between the developed countries and the devel-oping countries. This has a number of ramifications for IK. The dilemma faced is that whichever method is taken to protect IK (IPR regimes, documenting IK etc) exposes IK to some misappropriation. Protecting it through IPR is also fraught with problems. Documenting IK exposes IK to the public domain and makes it that much easier to be misused. However, not protecting IK runs the danger of having it disappear as the custodians holding it die off, or as communities become swamped by the effects of globalization. The conclu-sion therefore is that governments have to take more interest in protecting, promoting and using IK than they have been doing.

Feminist, Sexual, and Queer Citizenship

2017 ◽  
pp. 152-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leti Volpp
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Queer Citizenship

The line dividing citizens and those excluded from its promise was long shaped by the public/private dichotomy, consigning women to the private, while reserving citizenship’s sphere of the public domain for men. Feminist theorists, in criticizing this dichotomy, have examined the relationships between citizenship, dependency, and reproduction. While those considered sexually deviant have suffered exclusions from citizenship, gay and lesbian subjects in some sites currently enjoy a role as model citizens. This shift has accompanied a transition in the role of the citizen from producer of work to consumer: the privatized, self-governing, and sexually free individual is today’s prototypical citizen. This new sexual citizen is contrasted with illiberal others, who are cast outside as unfit candidates for citizenship. Queer citizenship does not provide a more encompassing vision; citizenship is not available to be queered, given how it inevitably splits the world into those who belong and those left outside.

The politics of the libre commons

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Berry ◽  
Giles Moss
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Peer Production ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The project of ‘free culture’ is committed to the creation of a cultural space, rather like the ‘public domain’, seeking to complement/replace that of proprietary cultural commodities and privatized meaning. This has been given a new impetus with the birth of the Creative Commons. This organization has sought to introduce cultural producers across the world to the possibilities of sharing, co–operation and commons–based peer–production by creating a set of interwoven licenses for creators to append to their artwork, music and text. In this paper, we chart the connections between this movement and the early Free Software and Open Source movements and question whether underlying assumptions that are ignored or de–politicized are a threat to the very free culture that the project purports to save. We then move to suggest a new discursive project linked to notions of radical democracy.

scholarly journals THREE-DIMENSIONAL RELIEF AND MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TEMPIO-MASSERIA DEL GIGANTE IN CUMAE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Amore ◽  
FEDERICA CARANDENTE
Keyword(s):  
Material Characterization ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Campi Flegrei ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
Eastern Border ◽  
The Temple

The following paper describes the work originated from a University exercise drill, made during the Restoration Lab of the architecture Department of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. It shows the results of a relief and metric characterisation campaign of the ‘Masseria del Gigante' (Giant’s Farmhouse) Temple, in Cumae, in the Naples province. This is a rural building from the XVIII century, built and extended by incorporating the rests of the cell of an ancient temple from the Flavian Age, located at the eastern border of Cumae lower city’s Foro, that was called “del Gigante” (of the Giant), because a large Jupiter’s bust was found in its proximities. Well known in the world of antiquarian dealers, it was pictured in many drawings and landscape paintings since the end of the XVII century and the first half of the XVIII, the Masseria Temple taken into exam has been acquired by the public domain only at the end of the 1990, so only after this period the first archaeological investigations were made. Afterwards, between 1996 and 2002, conspicuous restoration and securing works were made. Today the structure is used as a temporary deposit for archaeological findings and it’s among the buildings included in a wider restoration and re-functionalization project that has been proposed by the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park and that is now about to start. The following research was developed from the structure’s relief made with photo-modelling techniques and it aimed to identify the construction methodologies and the degrading phenomena in place, with special regards to the identification of the ancient parts of the Temple, of those pertaining the conversion in a farmhouse and, lastly,, those realised during the aforementioned restoration works.

scholarly journals A flame of sacred love: Mission involvement of women in the 19th century

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Kommers
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Women Missionaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
The World ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Physical Care

In the 19th century, women missionaries found acceptance in the public domain and opportunities for achievement that they were denied at home. Whilst they spearheaded movements for Christianising and modernising Asian (the focus of this article) and African societies through the evangelisation, education and physical care of women, many questions were raised about their motives and the way they executed their work. We need to rediscover the sacrificial dedication women had that made the 19th century the greatest century of Christian expansion. These were remarkable women who left everything behind − many of them leaving a permanent impression upon the people in whose cities they eventually resided − and who stand as examples to the present generation. Having lost most of the things the world prizes, they gained one thing they esteemed so highly. For them, the relative value of things temporal might go, provided that they could forever settle the eternal values. They lived out the words of Paul: ‘I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus’ (Phlp 3:14).Vroue-sendelinge het in die negentiende eeu geleenthede vir prestasie en aanvaarding in die publieke domein gevind wat hulle andersins misgun is. Hoewel hulle die voortou geneem het met bewegings vir die kerstening en modernisering van gemeenskappe in Asië en Afrika deur middel van die evangelisasie, opvoeding en fisiese versorging van vrouens, is hulle motiewe en die manier waarop hulle te werk gegaan het, bevraagteken. Dit is dus nodig om die opoffering en toewyding van hierdie vroue, wat die negentiende e eeu uitgesonder het as die belangrikste eeu vir Christelike uitbreiding, te herontdek. Hierdie merkwaardige vroue het alles opgeoffer en vele van hulle het ’n onuitwisbare indruk gemaak het op die mense in wie se stede hulle uiteindelik tuisgegaan het. Hulle staan uit as voorbeelde vir die huidige generasie. Al het hulle soveel dinge verloor wat deur die wêreld as belangrik geag is, het hulle veel gekry uit dit wat hulle persoonlik hoog geag het. Vir hulle het die relatiewe waarde van tydelike dinge min beteken, solank hulle die ewige waardes kon vestig. Hulle het voorwaar Paulus se woorde uitgeleef: ‘Ek span my in om by die wenstreep te kom, sodat ek die hemelse prys kan behaal waartoe God my geroep het in Christus Jesus’ (Fil 3:14).

Ethics, Rhetoric, and Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Arnett
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

Signification of human meaning dwells in ethics and culture, finding expression in and through rhetorical practices. Ethics and culture consist of goods and practices that gather the meaningful and the important together, yielding urgency for rhetorical employment of those practices. The union of ethics, culture, and rhetoric offers a coherent dwelling for the protection and promotion of the consequential. Ethics and culture house actions of meaningfulness that compel rhetorical expression, announcing a stance attentive to the vital, reminding self and informing other of a particular account of the consequential. Ethics and culture adjudicate a sense of ground that nourishes rhetorical understanding and engagement with the world. Rhetoric explicates practices of import that reflect the performative reality of ethics and culture, retelling self and other about the crucial. Rhetoric permits self and other to interrogate a ground of distinctive goods and practices that structure the noteworthy. Rhetoric facilitates discovery, testing, and knowledgeable implementation. It moves ethics and culture from points of abstraction to knowing public coordinates in a communicative social world that is impactful on self and others. The interplay of ethics, culture, and rhetoric in their triconstruction and enactment engenders human meaning. Rhetoric thrusts unique versions of ethics and culture into the public domain, and such action renders practical awareness of the existence of contrasting content of import. Acknowledging dissimilarity exposes and probes contrasting goods and practices. Rhetoric enhances public knowledge of differences undergirding juxtaposed ethical and cultural stances.

Byron and the Politics of Paradise

PMLA ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward E. Bostetter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Chain Of Being ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Universe

In The Great Chain of Being Professor Lovejoy pointed out that in the eighteenth century a profound change took place in the ways of thinking about the universe—from conceiving of it as static and complete to conceiving of it as organic and infinitely changing. Recently, in The Subtler Language, Earl Wasserman has discussed the acute artistic problems that this shift in thought created for the poet. Until the end of the eighteenth century there were certain “cosmic syntaxes” in the public domain such as the Christian interpretation of history and the concept of the great chain of being which the poet could expect his audience to recognize and accept. He “could transform language by means of them, and could survey reality and experience in the presence of the world these syntaxes implied… By the nineteenth century these world pictures had passed from consciousness for the purpose of public poetry, and no longer did men share in any significant degree a sense of cosmic design.” Therefore, says Wasserman, the Romantic poets—and poets ever since—have been forced to formulate their own cosmic syntax and “shape the autonomous poetic reality that the cosmic syntax permits.”

Spirit-Empowered ‘Walking Alongside’

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-36
Author(s):  
Mark J. Cartledge
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
The Church

The gift of the Holy Spirit to the disciples in John’s Gospel, expressed in the so-called Paraclete sayings (John 14–16), indicates that certain capacities will be given to the disciples of Jesus Christ for the benefit of their witness to the world. This article reflects on these pneumatological texts, brings them into conversation with the discourse of public theology, that is, theology that seeks to address issues in the public domain of wider civil society, outside the sphere of the church. In particular, by taking the metaphor of ‘walking alongside’, this study explores the ways these texts inform the manner in which Renewal (Pentecostal and Charismatic) Christians, believing in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit for service to the world, may frame their pneumatology of engagement for the sake of others.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Jacksonian and Antebellum Eras: Documents Decoded

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Steven R. Edscorn
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

Many, though not all, of the public domain speeches, letters, and resolutions contained in this work are available on the World Wide Web, often with contextual information and commentary. Why, then, do we need a collection of primary sources such as this?

Perspectives on the Future of Oil

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 147-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W. Bentley ◽  
R.H. Booth ◽  
J.D. Burton ◽  
M.L. Coleman ◽  
B.W. Sellwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Production ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Recovery Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Supply ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Conventional Oil

This paper assesses the risk of near-term oil shortages due to resource limits. Part I reviews the basics of the problem, including: • definitions, • broad quantities of oil available, • a simple model of how production develops from a group of fields, • actual production profiles of countries past peak. Part II examines the adequacy of the data available for estimating the total quantity of conventional oil, discussing separately: • the oil in reserves, • oil expected from reserves growth, and • oil yet-to-find. A contrast is made between the data used by the oil industry, and that available in the public domain. Part III outlines approaches taken by a variety of groups to model the future supply of oil. These groups include Campbell/Laherrère, the IEA, USGS, the EU, and some oil economists. Part IV presents oil production forecasts from a number of these groups for some specific countries; for the “Rest-of-the World”, and for the world as a whole. In Part V, the scope for non-conventional oil, and also gas, to offset a decline in conventional oil is examined. Finally, in Part VI, some wider implications of the situation are presented. The general arguments of the paper are: • It is useful to define conventional oil by recovery method. • Oil production in a region goes over peak when flow from new sources cannot compensate for the declining flow from existing sources. • Public domain reserves data hold only proved reserves, and contain serious errors. • Industry data are more reliable, and hold (proved + probable) reserves. • Much of ‘reserves growth’ is simply the increase from proved to (proved + probable). • The world's conventional oil ultimate is probably between 2,000 and 2,700 Gb. • But find rates are low, so peaking dates are not affected by high ultimates. The conclusions of the paper therefore are: • Non-OPEC oil production is currently close to its resource-limited peak. • The world's all-oil resource-limited peak is likely within about a decade. • These resource limits are likely to have serious economic and political repercussions.

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