Beware of Locking Open Culture

Beware of locking open cultureMathias Klang

We have to be beware of old norms: law, economics, culture & our own prejudices

Copyright is all about fixation

Fixation is all about technology

Modern copyright law

is fixed in the 1950s

“These are not the norms you’re looking for”

Flickr

2000

2001

2002

2003 2005

2004 2006

Wikipedia

Linkedin

Blog

ger 1

999

Second Life

My Space

Skype

Digg

Facebook

Ning

YouTube

Twitter

Spotify

Google c:a 1998

2008

2007 2009

Farmville

iphone

WikileaksAngry Birds

Theoretical rights become inevitable

practice

Controlling the monster

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Culture as casualtyThe GLAM’s are suffering

collective licensing feesWe lock ourselves into a new economic yoke. We lose the question of freedom & are allowed only to discuss the question: how much?

Thank you.

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• Mathias Klang. klang@ituniv.se or @klang67