Non–corporate Digital Innovation and Fair Dealings
Theme: Innovation Using Digital Technologies
Idea Status: +23 | Total Votes: 31 | Comments: 3
Innovation is not the exclusive province of commercial entities. I originate unique and compelling digital media not because I am paid to but because it gives me great satisfaction. I share this content freely under a copyleft paradigm that includes:
- Attribution
- Share and share alike, and
- Non commercial applications
I feel that this framework facilitates the communication of my ideas and encourages further derivative works. I distribute my work through social media sites like deviantart, forums and facebook. I intentionally allow for my work to be "remixed" because I hold that it is a legitimate and fair use. I expect that fair–dealing provisions will be entrenched within the upcoming copyright reform bill. It is imperative that such provisions be included to guarantee and incourage innovations and the free flow of ideas that foster them in a digital economy.
Comments
patrickgwelch — 2010–05–16 14:05:17 EDT wrote
Like with the other 'fair dealings' suggestion, this one is important to all Canadians.
The Canadian government could facilitate digital innovation and fair use by encouraging/providing incentives or even mandating the use of 'copyleft' (i.e., open / liberal) copyright licenses.
A great example of this is the open access mandate for the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Currently this mandate is a strong encouragement with loopholes. The government of Canada could strengthen mandates such as this by eliminating the loopholes.
The government could also broaden the encouragement/mandate model of liberally licensed / open accessible content to other publicly funded endeavors such as grants to artists, authors, musicians, etc. to create works for the public good that are openly accessible and ideally re–mixable.
R — 2010–06–09 12:20:28 EDT wrote
Commons–based peer production is becoming an important part of the economy is requires this kind of laws!
KyleAThompson — 2010–06–16 00:42:14 EDT wrote
As a producer whose work would become "illegal" under new Canadian copyright law, I couldn't agree more with this!
The internet commons is tremendously creative, and is producing excellent material every day, it must be supported for the continued vitality of the society and economy of Canada and the world.
