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Glyn Moody - from openness to abundance
- 3. against refusal to share digital artefacts
- 4. against artifical scarcity of information
- 7. 1,000 years ago – 400 million
- 8. 700 years ago – 450 million
- 14. formalised in the Statute of Monopolies (1624)
- 17. trade secrets easy to keep (trade guilds)
- 19. to get them revealed for wider use, rather than hoarded
- 21. patent thickets
- 23. the total cost of litigating in US was $3.9 billion per year
- 24. software patents = overall net loss of $3.8 billion per year
- 26. 3,000,000 genome-related patents filed
- 27. ”patent-stacking” allows single DNA sequence to be patented in several ways
- 28. whole-genome scan: impossible with the huge number of gene patents
- 30. in 16 th and 17 th century England, the Stationers' Company had exclusive and perpetual state monopoly over producing printed copies of every registered book (their ”copy right”)
- 31. aim was to *control* what was printed by establishing responsibility - instrument of censorship
- 33. gave limited monopoly (14 years + 14 year extension)
- 34. text became freely available after that period – created modern public domain
- 35. strongly influenced US copyright law
- 37. typesetting slow
- 38. printing presses were expensive
- 39. binding was slow
- 43. somebody to print the sheets
- 44. somebody to bind the book
- 45. somebody to distribute the book
- 47. in an age of scarcity, copyright made infringement even more risky
- 49. upload it
- 50. sell it globally
- 52. upload it
- 54. tomorrow: 1 Exabyte hard disc 50 €
- 55. implicit *abundance*: 150,000 MP3 files today, 150,000,000,000 MP3 tomorrow
- 57. 13 million tracks on Spotify
- 59. ” hundreds of millions” videos on YouTube
- 60. 5 billion pictures on Flickr
- 61. one trillion URLs (2008)
- 62. but...this is only a part of today's abundance
- 64. by definition, dark abundance negates the scarcity that lies at the heart of copyright
- 65. challenges 18 th -century business models built on scarcity
- 66. like dark matter, dark abundance has visible consequences
- 68. ACTA; TPPA
- 69. ”PROTECT IP” Act; ”voluntary” Website blocking
- 70. places protection of intellectual monopolies and their scarcities above protection of human rights
- 71. rather break the Internet than allow it to be used for sharing
- 74. they must then pay for access to most of the world's knowledge, often at near-Western rates – even though the marginal cost is practically zero
- 76. means access for all humanity – not just the developed world, or the richer classes elsewhere
- 77. sounds socialist or worse: actually conservative
- 79. copyright not about protecting old business models
- 80. copyright not about enshrining authors' or publishers' ”rights”
- 83. educating them through access to knowledge will generate even more creativity in the system
- 86. however, society *does* have that right - just as it had the right to strengthen copyright, repeatedly, by extending its range and its term, diminishing public domain
- 88. society decides which direction and the quid pro quo
- 90. rights to control the change of ownership of a particular copy end once that copy is sold
- 91. society decided this was a fair limitation on copyright
- 95. if not, the war on digital sharing becomes a war on the ability of the mind to take flight through knowledge
- 97. the ratchet went the wrong way – should have decreased the term of copyright as more creators arrived, less incentive needed
- 98. for analogue content, could bring it back to 14 years + 14 years with renewal
- 100. famously, one calendar year is seven Internet years
- 101. digital content lives on Internet time, so for that, should measure copyright on Internet time
- 102. 14 Internet years = 2 calendar years
- 104. as for copyright, there are two kinds of patents: analogue and digital
- 105. analogue patents operate on calendar time, so could leave the current term (typically 20 years)
- 106. digital patents – software patents, gene patents – just don't scale, so abolish them
- 108. copyright industries will cling to scarcity by waging war on sharing
- 109. if analogue patents still exist, clever lawyers will employ the ”computer-implemented invention”/”purified gene” trick, yoking digital and analogue together
- 111. there is only one non-arbitrary term for an intellectual monopoly: zero years
- 113. in an age of digital abundance, no longer rational or necessary
- 114. should no longer put up with the high price that intellectual monopolies exact - hindering progress, holding back billions of lives and the loss of fundamental freedoms
- 116. ”We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.”
- 118. how would open projects function without copyright?
- 119. what would the key issues be in a world without intellectual monopolies?
- 120. what new roles might open projects play in such a world of abundance?