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Open Culture

Khairil Yusof �khairil.yusof@sinarproject.org

sinarproject.org

Supported by

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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IPR or Intellectual Property Rights

is misleading and confusing on purpose

John Wiley

Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

The term carries a bias that is not hard to see: it suggests thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy with property rights for physical objects. (This analogy is at odds with the legal philosophies of copyright law, of patent law, and of trademark law, but only specialists know that.) These laws are in fact not much like physical property law, but use of this term leads legislators to change them to be more so. Since that is the change desired by the companies that exercise copyright, patent and trademark powers, the bias introduced by the term “intellectual property” suits them.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

Photo Credits:

Creative Commons by Attribution-Non Commercial 2.0

John Wiley https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonwiley/1208632794

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Dennis Skley

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Patents

Eduardo Villagrán Morales

new inventions
Protection is 20 years, 10 + 5 + 5
Idea was to reward inventor, and then have the invention available to the public

MyIPO summary:

http://www.myipo.gov.my/web/guest/paten-maklumat-umum

Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
Plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than man-made living micro- organisms, micro-biological processes and the products of such micro-organism processes;
Schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games;
Methods for the treatment of human or animal body by surgery or therapy, and diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body.

Patentable Inventions

For a patent to be granted an invention must be :

new, which means that the invention has not been publicly disclosed in any form, anywhere in the world;
involve an inventive step, that is to say the invention must not be obvious to someone with knowledge and experience in the technological field of the invention; and
industrially applicable, meaning it can be mass produced.

Non-Patentable Inventions

Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
Plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than man-made living micro- organisms, micro-biological processes and the products of such micro-organism processes;
Schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games;
Methods for the treatment of human or animal body by surgery or therapy, and diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body.

Photo Credit

Eduardo Villagrán Morales By-NC-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/gotencool/5996574070

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Trademarks

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Industrial Design

Evan Blaser

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Trade Secrets

Michael Saechang

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Christopher Dombres

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Internet & digital content

Created new methods of content & knowledge sharing at accelerating speeds

Khairil Yusof

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“”I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."

Valenti MPAA

The 80’s

The 90’s

Scare Tactics

Misleading Statements and Figures

“”Don’t use Unlicensed Software”

“”Copying Copyrighted Works is Theft”

“”Industry lost 34 Billion Dollars!”

“”Downloading content for free of the Internet is illegal”

War on copyright, not by small artists but but large media companies, which have continued to try restrict new technologies of content creation and sharing.

Ask audience about what is wrong with the some of the statements.

80s VCR and Cassette Tapes

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."

Walkman, HiFi
VCR

90’s Napster & MP3s, Ripping CDs, Online Music

Ipod (remember the 10GB Ipod)?

2000 Torrents, ISPs, Search Engines

DRM/TPM Digital Restrictions Manaagement, Technological Prevention Management

DMCA https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse

http://www.economist.com/node/3993427

Calls for ever increasing punishment and restrictions on copyright law, despite evidence for decades that sales and profits from movies, music etc have continued to increase

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Sweet Chili Arts

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Copyleft

Is the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work.

Creative Commons

Open Source

Free Software

GNU Free Documentation

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Project Gutenberg

Over 40,000 public domain e-books

brandbook.de

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Public Library of Science (PLOS)

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal

AFPMB

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Tesla Motors

“All Our Patents Are Belong To You”

raneko

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“I've found that to be true myself; every time we make a few songs available for free download on my website, sales of all the CDs go up. A lot.”

Janis Ian

Singer-Songwriter, 2 time Grammy Award Winner

Winston Vargas

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Open Goldberg Variations

The Open Goldberg Variations (Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 988), played by Kimiko Ishizaka on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial piano, are free to download and share. They are governed by the Creative Commons Zero license, which means that they are a part of the public domain, and every use of them is allowed.

Robert Douglass

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Creative Commons Licensing

http://creativecommons.org/choose�By-Attribution - just credit me

Share Alike - reshare same terms

No-Derivatives - no modifications

Noncommercial - non-commercial use only

Zero (Public Domain)

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Four Freedoms

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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Software Licensing

Free Software Licensing

GPL, AGPL - share alike

BSD/MIT - by attribution

Four Freedoms.

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Help protect our rights

Educate others on threats to free culture such as IPR FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)

No increases in legal restrictions especially in digital space (DMCA, SOPA like laws)

Support work of organizations Knowledge Ecology Online, anti-TPP on IPR issues

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Questions