“Property is mean – intellectual or not ” wine & cheese public meeting, London, Friday 27th April

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    hallblithe
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    FYI

    Hi there,

    we are doing a public meeting on “intellectual property“, the politics
    of the open-source movement and creative commons. Here’s the
    announcement:

    = Property is mean – intellectual or not =

    The free software movement (Richard Stallman, the GNU Project, the
    Free Software Foundation, etc.) claims that intellectual property is a
    bit of a contradiction in terms. They argue that information wants to
    be free and restricting use, distribution or development of digital
    goods such as software is a violation of its purposes and principles.

    As these “goods” can be copied almost infinitely often one might ask:
    why constrain access to these goods that are already virtually a
    common good? But then, one also has to ask: what is it about material
    wealth that makes it right, without alternative even, to treat it as
    private property? Most proponents of open-source software and
    proponents of intellectual property rights reforms distinguish between
    intellectual property law” and your run-of-the-mill property law;
    they oppose the former but appreciate the latter. On the contrary, we
    want to ask how well founded is the proclaimed distinction between
    “intellectual” and material property?

    When free software was first devised against the emerging software
    industry it was thought of as a “legal hack”: by claiming one’s
    ownership of software one could ensure it stayed freely available and
    could not be appropriated. Nowadays Lawrence Lessig and the Creative
    Commons movement encourage everyone to act in the same spirit:
    musicians, authors, snapshot photographers and bloggers are all
    encouraged to claim copyright on their work and to specify exactly
    what someone is (not) allowed to do with their work. Somewhere a
    “legal hack” became the means to establish a more rigid copyright
    regime. We want to discuss whether this development is inherent in
    attempts to hack the law.

    Finally, we want to discuss how people make money with open-source
    software. The curiosity of it is, that it seems to combine the idea of
    giving away stuff for free with successful business models. How does
    this work?

    == Where/When ==

    Friday, 27. April 2012, 7pm

    LimaZulu
    Unit 3j, Omega Works 167 Hermitage Rd, N4 1LZ London, United Kingdom
    http://www.limazulu.co.uk
    twitter: @limazululondon
    reception@limazulu.co.uk
    02088007428

    == See also ==

    LimaZulu set up a Facebook event page at

    https://www.facebook.com/events/294469253964297/

    This announcement on our website:

    http://junge-linke.org/en/property-mean-intellectual-or-not

    from: The Wine & Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London
    .www: http://junge-linke.org/en

    #88255
    jondwhite
    Participant

    “Most proponents of open-source software and proponents of intellectual property rights reforms distinguish between “intellectual property law” and your run-of-the-mill property law; they oppose the former but appreciate the latter.”Most proponents of open-source software don’t oppose intellectual property law anywhere near as making everything public domain.

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