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On November 5, 2009, Lawrence Lessig gave a talk entitled It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right at the Educause 2009 Congress. The talk is available * as an audio recording: http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/e09-lessig-session.mp3 (Running time: 60:23 minutes 27.64 MB) * as a video: http://blip.tv/file/2827842 * for download as a .flv video file (200 Mb) from Michael Paskevicius' Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right blog post (Nov. 12, 2009)

"So, let me make one final plea, to bring you into this battle. You all know, we are in the middle of a war. I don't mean - actually, we are in the middle of many wars - I mean actually one war here, the copyright war. War that the late Jack Valenti, my friend - extraodinary man - used to refer to as his own "terrorist war"? - where apparently , the terrorists in this war are our children. (audience laughs). So we organize and wage war against these terrorists. We talk about this as a war that needs to be waged against these pirates. And the thing that we need to recognize as educators, as scientists, as parents, as people who understand the potential and uses of this technology, is: we can't kill this technology, we can only criminalize it. We're not going to stop our kids from creating the way they create, ways that we couldn't even begin to imagine creating, at least when I was growing up. We can only drive that creativity underground. We can't make our kids passive, the way that, again, I was passive growing up, the way Souza feared. We can only make them "pirates". And the question we, as a culture, need to ask is: Is that any good? Our kids live in this age of prohibitions, in all sorts of contexts of their life. They live life against the law. We tell them they live life against the law and they recognize their behavior is against the law. That recognition is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corruptive of the rule of law in a democracy. 3571.076838 3590.998233 You, each of you, all of us, have let this insanity happen. You, each of you, all of us, could, if we actually stood up and did something about it, make it stop. Thank you very much."

Vereinsziele und Entstehungsgründe Die Vereinsziele von freearchives.ch sind nichtkommerzieller Natur. Im wesentlichen geht es darum, dass wir Informationen langfristig speichern und erhalten möchten. Diese Informationen sollen nicht nur irgendwie im Zugriff sein, sondern möglichst bequem abrufbar sein. Langfristig heisst, dass die Informationen als Bilddatei gespeichert sind, bequem abrufbar bedeutet, dass es eine Möglichkeit geben soll, aus den Bilddaten durchsuchbare Daten aufzubereiten. Dazu bedarf es einer Texterkennung über die gescannten Seiten. Für einfachere Texte können wir wärmstens Tesseract empfehlen. Wenn es darum geht, durchsuchbare PDF-Dateien zu erstellen, so gibt es derzeit keine brauchbare OpenSource-Lösung. Der Verein freearchives.ch möchte dazu beitragen, dass dies so bald als möglich der Fall ist.

"Soweit wir das beurteilen können, handelt es sich vollumfänglich um Werke, deren Urheberrechtsschutz abgelaufen ist und damit gemeinfrei sind. In den Nutzungsbedingungen schreiben sie jedoch, dass sämtliche Werke unter einer Creative Commons "by-nc-sa"-Lizenz stehen. Zusätzlich gibt es einen Widerspruch zwischen der durch die Angabe einer CC Lizenz erlaubten Weiterverbreitung eines Werkes und ihrer Angabe, dass die Werke nicht auf anderen Servern gespeichert werden dürfen. Es ist ihnen selbstverständlich unbenommen, für die Dienstleistung der Erstellung der Scans Gebühren zu erheben. Wenn diese Scans jedoch veröffentlicht werden, sind sie gemeinfrei, denn durch den Vorgang des Scannens entsteht kein urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk."

"Avec Monsieur Carlo Govoni, le Conseil fédéral a nommé un grand connaisseur en la matière en tant que responsable de l'observatoire, qui sera aménagé auprès de l'Institut Fédéral de la Propriété Intellectuelle. Carlo Govoni, né en 1945, a achevé ses études à l'Université de Bâle avec une licence en droit. Entre 1973 et le printemps 2008, il a travaillé auprès de l'Institut Fédéral de la Propriété Intellectuelle, depuis 1996 en tant que chef de la division droit d'auteur. Dans cette fonction il a marqué de manière déterminante l'environnement du droit d'auteur suisse. Monsieur Govoni enseigne le droit des médias à l'Université de Fribourg et il est l'auteur de nombreuses publications sur le droit d'auteur. "

"hi, i'll keep this brief. this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short. if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license, with any money that's generated being given to the humane society. i hope that you find what you're looking for, moby"

"We, a broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… We invite all citizens to make this Charter theirs, share it and put it into practice. We invite all governments, multinationals and institutions urgently to listen to it, understand it and enforce it."

Abstract: Technically it is entirely possible to attach a Creative Commons license to a sound recording - but does the law permit it? This study examines the rights of performers and producers in the sound recordings they create, the collective management systems in place for the exploitation of those rights, and the relevant terms of the Creative Commons licenses. On this basis, it attempts to assess whether Creative Commons licenses can be attached to sound recordings, whether the use of such licenses can be combined with the collective management of related rights in sound recordings and, if so, under what circumstances and conditions this can be achieved.

"At a time when we have the technologies to enable global access to and distributed processing of scientific research and data, legal and technical restrictions are making it difficult to connect the dots. Even when research and data is made public, it's often locked up by regimes or contracts that prohibit changing file formats or languages, integrating data, semantic enrichment, text mining and more. These restrictions sharply limit the impact of published research, and prevent us from exploiting the potential of the Web for accelerating scientific discovery. In the Scholar's Copyright Project, Science Commons develops tools and resources for expanding and enhancing open access (OA) to published research and data. We believe that knowledge-sharing systems and formats based on the paper metaphor block innovation, and that open access is prerequisite for finding new ways to reap the value of the vast amounts of public research now being produced. For details on the resources we offer, continue reading below."

"Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle - the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method. Together, they form the building blocks of a new collaborative infrastructure to make scientific discovery easier by design. Making scientific research "re-useful" - We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data for reuse. We are also exploring new models for licensing patents and know how. Learn more. Enabling "one-click" access to research materials - We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research. Learn more. Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language. Learn more."

"Screencast which demonstrates how to add a Creative Commons license to offline works created in September 2009 for the University of Cape Town. http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct."

"Thema des SFEM 2009: Lernen mit "Web-Medien" Das SFEM ist ein Forum, welches von verschiedenen Organisationen unter dem Lead der Schweizerischen Stiftung für audiovisuelle Bildungsangebote, SSAB, ins Leben gerufen wurde. Zielgruppen Das SFEM führt Akteure und Entscheidungsverantwortliche aus Bildung, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Medien, Verwaltung, Verbänden und Politik zu Expertengesprächen zusammen. Im Zentrum stehen Fragen der elektronischen Medien im Wissens- und Bildungsbereich. Das SFEM schafft Kontaktmöglichkeiten zwischen Anbietern und Nachfragern von Bildungsmedien, ermöglicht Synergien und trägt zu der in der Strategie des Bundesrates für eine Informationsgesellschaft in der Schweiz von 2006 geforderten Vernetzung aller Partner bei."