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Local Contexts is a new forum for applying Traditional Knowledge licenses or labels to materials from Indigenous communities. They work a lot like Creative Commons licenses. There are often different categories of Indigenous knowledge meant only for the community, or only for women, or only for leaders, and these licenses offer a way to label materials accordingly. These labels and licenses are added onto existing copyright, which is often held by the person who made a tangible material rather than the community where the idea comes from (an anthropologist who filmed a traditional ceremony owns the copyright on the film, and the community has no copyright). These TK labels are asking people who come across materials like this to think about how they are using the materials, and to think about whose intellectual property they are. This is a very new initiative, but a really valuable tool. This is part of a different conversation that challenges how we normally talk about copyright and intellectual property.

This is an interesting article about the cost of formal publishing verses open access publishing. Although there seems to be a lot of secrecy around the issue, the research shows that the total cost for open access publishing is a lot less than formal publishing. That appears to bring the perception that the open access works are not as good as those published in formal journals. Despite this factor there is growing encouragement to authors to publish their work in open access sources, but traditional models remain very popular. A large percentage of these journals actually allow people to publish online, although some do ask for a time delay. Despite that, many authors do not proceed to publish online after they have gone through the formal process although some authors are obliged to do so by their institution. It could be a good test to see why these authors do not take the step to publish online. Reasons could range from apathy, to not enough knowledge of the process, to a need not to share the information with everyone. Economically, there is also a concern that open access sources will become more expensive as more authors begin publishing in this way.

A curious article about copyright traps, mystery towns on maps and other interesting things.

"Copy-me is an animated web series about the sharing of knowledge and open culture. About laws, myths and misconceptions, about the Internet and all the benefits of sharing." The idea was artistically and satirically presented using animation series for better understanding and appreciation of the audience.

La evolución del conocimiento ha evolucionado, pero lo importante de cada etapa sin duda alguna es la producción y divulgación de estos.

avanzado mucho, pero todavía tiene mucho camino por recorrer!

This site explains why people choose to illegally downloads, even if some people know that they are breaking the copyright law.

Interesting read as I'm guilty of illegally downloading/streaming TV and music. Very surprised to see that the rich are the ones who illegally download on a regular basis.

"I'd have to wait too long to see it on TV" is the reason I hear the most about when it comes to illegal downloading. Those people generally do make an effort to watch it when it does officially come out on TV though, to off-set their piracy. The way companies will show something in one country and then sit on it for five months before letting someone in another country watch it seems silly to me at this point, though. Yes digital piracy is illegal, but it seems to be getting to the point of the Prohibition Era in the United States: yes, it's illegal, but everyone's doing it anyway. I think somebody's going to need to change things up here, and it seems doubtful that the companies producing these shows can alter the cultural norms without a lot more work than it seems they're willing to put in.

Esta publicación tiene como objetivo principal el mostrar de forma fácil a nuestros lectores cuales son las licencias básicas de publicación en Internet, cómo entenderlas y aún mas importante: Cómo usarlas de forma adecuada con el objetivo de proteger adecuadamente nuestras creaciones literarias, artísticas y/o científicas.

Que bueno!

Hacia una La Declaración de Ginebra es un paso ingente hacia la creación de una ámplia coalición de personas, organizaciones y países 1 que piden que la comunidad internacional rediseñe los objetivos y los mecanismos para otorgar control monopolístico sobre los diferentes tipos de conocimiento.Ofrece muchas sugerencias concretas y constructivas acerca de cambios en los objetivos, políticas y prioridades de la OMPI, y aporta argumentos abundantes y certeros para rediseñar los tratos de copyright y patentes para que sirvan mejor al interés público de toda la humanidad.

Porqué si los monopolios están penados por la ley, y Microsoft pagó una multa, y google está por hacerlo, quizá youtube... ¿porqué no refrecar las leyes del copyright y penalizar la monopolización del conocimiento? Debería impulsarse, por ejemplo, editoriales de bajo costo para mayor acceso a los lectores, deberían de permitir esa clase de competencia, o recursos educativos accesibles respecto a la educación. Debería de ser accesible la información y la educación sobre la salud, formas de mejorar el estido de vida, la salud y bienestar emocional, y los conocimientos de diferente índole, no sólo invirtiendo dinero y tiempo es justo para obtener el acceso al conocimiento especializado, pero la apertura ¿cómo puede mediarse para que no genere problemas? En el sentido de que un profesionista y un no profesionista tengan el mismo conocimiento sobre una especialización, pero uno tiene título y otro no, se restan, para quienes invierten, oportunidades de empleo en su educación formal, y para quienes aprenden por su cuenta, se abren oportunidades y las empresas prefieren pagar menos a estas personas aún cuando no tienen preparación en un sistema educativo formal. Esto impacta en la sociedad, pues al menos en México sucede...

Debe ser algo para toda la América Latina hay mucha diferencia entre las regiones de nuestro continente!

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open source projects is initially startling.

"Is Luciana Fasani too cool for school or better prepared than most teens for a rapidly changing workplace? A qualified make-up artist and hair consultant and now studying the performing arts, the 14-year-old Cape Town teen tells Nelia Vivier about stepping up to today's job market and life in future.. "The educational system today only values one type of intelligence - if you do not fit into that mold, you are made to feel unhappy and stupid" "Schools and schooling ar becoming increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No-one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes, or politicians in civic classes, or poets in English classes - John Gatto"."Our school crisis is a reflection of the greater social crisis (in South Africa) - children and old people are penned up and locked away to a dgree without precendent... a community that has no future, no past, only a continuous present". "We live in networks, not communities and everyone I know is lonely...school is a major actor in this tragedy....We appear to be creating a caste system, complete with untouchables who wander..."

The New Yorker covered the issue of copyright in a recent issue: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/crooner-rights-spat The cover many of the points raised in this course, as well as some of the issues relating to copyright in the digital age. An interesting read!

Nice find! It has some great examples of American copyright laws and is historically grounded. It's always easier to understand when fun/relevant examples are used (like Rod Stewart's head, in this article!).

Case study of a copyright take down notice and discussion of copyright and public domain issues.

This is a really excellent article! Access to the public domain and to the things that are in it (or should be, but never are) is at the root of my interest in copyright. I do wish there was more information about how we can fight back, if that's even possible. (I also appreciate the link to the Public Domain review in the article, and that the Public Domain review has a Tumblr. Something to investigate for my final project!)

Curioso caso. También hay otros casos sobre los problemas que hay, por ejemplo, en los personajes animados de Dominio Público como Peter Pan, Bambi, etc., donde empresas como Disney reclaman que sean de Dominio Público para poder lucrar con ellos, pero se niegan a que otros personajes en específico Mickey Mouse lo sean. Una doble moral. http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2008/08/22/actualidad/1219356003_850215.html http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/22/business/fi-mickey22

Hi there, I have just find this excelente video about the future os property rihgts and think that may be interesting for you all. "Property Rights Development: Implications for Sustainability | PRESENTER: Brian Kelly, Graduate Student Fellow, MS Candidate in Community Development and Applied Economics | 4/20/12 Modern property rights assignments and regimes are ill-equipped to adapt to increased ecological scarcity, resulting in economically-inefficient outcomes and a systemic inability to enable the development of a green economy. This presentation will discuss how property rights emerge, the viability of rights for future generations, and the how the existence of environmental externalities necessitates the inevitable emergence of common property rights regimes, grounded in the empirical example of Vermont's groundwater". Regards Julia Echeverría

Some interesting information about remix culture as a language used by young people in entertainment

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This site is very helpful in terms of resources, such as definitions of terms and seminars for learning how to apply IP

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