the Internet vs. Victor Hugo

Ljubljana, 7 october 2008Paul Keller, Knowledgeland

Lawrence Lessig @ iSummit 2007‘me vs. the Collecting Rights Societies’

CC-BY Kevin (KB35)flickr.com/people/kb35/

problem: exclusive assignment of rights to the societies

#1: collecting society members are looking for more flexibility....

... and #2: CC users are looking for ways to collect royalties for

commercial uses of their works.

commercial use?

commercial use?

$€¥

non-commercial use?

commercial use?

$€¥

non-commercial use

commercial use

non-commercial use

commercial use

‘...It's historically inevitable: whenever technology makes it impossible to police a

class of copyright use, we've solved the problem by creating blanket licences.’

Cory Doctorow in the Guardian from 31/07/08

thanks!