Culture, Copyright, Commons:
Dutch Electronic Arts Festival
Rotterdam, February 2003

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Culture, Copyright, Commons Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 2003

Van Gogh's Musee Imaginaire: Celebrate or prosecute?

"Tragedy of the commons"

Can we make it a comedy?

Thomas Jefferson's taper

Threats to creativity

Copyright is now the default

But I want to make my work more widely available:

Creative Commons: -- http://creativecommons.org

• Choose a license
• CC License Options: "Some Rights"
• Review license choices
• Apply the license to your work
• Commons Deed
• Legal Code
• My creative work.
• Others' (more) creative work.
• CC Featured Works.

What happens if someone doesn't like what I've created?

Chilling Effects: -- http://www.chillingeffects.org

• Cease and Desist, a cost/benefit analysis
• The shadow of the law
• Sony v. Aibopet: Copyright and the Dog that Didn't Dance
  • Aibopet's dance routines
  • Cease and desist
  • ChillingEffects.org
  • Enter your letter
  • The letter, annotated
  • What does copyright protect?
  • Aibo, dancing again, goes to law school
• Safeguarding the Archives: Google DMCA Takedown Notices
  • Google search
  • Takedown notice
  • Annotations
  • Chart of alleged infringements
• Goals of the Chilling Effects Project

Triumph of the Commons?

Author: Wendy Seltzer

E-mail: wendy@seltzer.com

Homepage: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html

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