The document summarizes Gregory Engels' presentation on copyright for the digital age. It discusses problems with the current copyright system, including that it prioritizes content industries over authors and consumers. It inhibits creation of new works and the application of copyright laws to new technologies. The presentation recommends allowing free licenses like Creative Commons, lessening protection periods, and introducing fair use to address these issues.

1. Copyright for the
digital age

2. Copyright for the
digital age
Gregory Engels, Co-Chairman
Pirate Parties International (PPI)
Presentation for UNESCO Conference with Moroccan Internet Society on
Freedom of Expression over the Internet,
Marrakech, Morocco, 16 February 2013.

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• Copyright 2013 by Gregory Engels,
Pirate Parties International. Except
where otherwise noted, this work is
licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution Share Alike
3.0 License

4. “Even the good
become pirates in a
world where the rules
seem absurd.”
Lawrence Lessing -
Remix

5. Pirate Parties
International
(PPI)
• Founded April
2010 in
Brussels
• 29 Pirate
Parties from 5
continents
• rapidly
growing
movement
Source: Piratetimes.net

6. Gregory Engels
• Co-Chairman of Pirate
Party International
• Entrepreneur
• Live in Germany
Source: Spiegel

7. Copyright - an Overview
• Originated 1710 in Statute of Anne
• Printers were given exclusive power
to print (and obligation to censor)
literary works
• has faced constant extension ever
since

8. Source: Copyright advertisement from the New York Clipper, 1906.

9. Problems
• The interest of content industry has
taken precedence over those of
authors and consumers

11. Problems
• Today there are more copyrighted
works being produced every minute
then during the course of the whole
XIX Century

12. Source: Visual News

13. We are here

14. Problems
• Copyright laws inhibit creation of new
works

15. Source: youtube

16. Problems
attempts to apply
copyright laws on
new technologies
inhibit progress cc-by popculturegeek.com

17. Creative Commons
• A license set that allows an author to
abandon voluntarily a some of his
rights, under certain conditions
• Allows for non commercial usage
• Not possible in many countries,
including Morocco, where authors
rights are unalienable

19. Open Access
• Idea that scientific research papers
should be free accessible
• 10% of all scientific publications as of
today
• 100% of OA journals use CC licenses

20. CC-BY SASI Research Group 2010

21. Open Data
• free access to machine readable public
datasets
• depends on availability of free licenses
(often Creative Commons)

22. source: data.gov

23. Remix
• creation of new works by utilizing
existing works
• the current Copyright system inhibit
remixing heavily

24. source: hitRECord.org

25. Orphan Works
• impracticability of searching for
rights holder of abandoned works
• danger of cultural loss

26. cc-by-nc-sa Brandon Woods

27. Fair Use
• The current copyright model inhibits
use of works in educational
environment

28. cc-by-nc-sa-nd libraryonthemove

29. Policy Recommendations
• If you go to change only three thing in
Copyright, change this:
• allow free licenses like Creative
Commons
• significantly lessen protection
periods
• introduce fair use clause

30. Contact me
• Twitter: @dichter
• Email Gregory.Engels [௹] pp-
international.net

31. Sources and used
material
• http://www.visualnews.com/2012/06/19/how-much-data-created-every-minute/?
view=infographic
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/popculturegeek/6791665578/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryonthemove/428619975/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/retoxx/7457788230/
• http://www.publicknowledge.org/Copyright-3DPrinting
• http://piratetimes.net
• Cover photograf cc-by-nc-nd by Adam Lambert http://lucasthefierce.deviantart.com/art/
Adam-Lambert-Age-of-aquarius-277054927