Aigrain - Sharing

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Grandiose und detaillierte Ausarbeitung eines doppelten Rechts auf "non-market sharing" und auf Vergütung. Als solche ist das Buch auch über den Themenbereich hinaus ein beeindruckendes Beispiel für eine "konkrete Utopie" bzw. "radikale Realipolitik."

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Exzerpt

• "If we recognize that individuals have a right to share digital works between themselves, how can we make sure that many will be fairly financed and re- warded for producing these works?" (p. 22)
• "Authors, performers, and contributors of all kinds will only support the recognition of the right to share if credible approaches to the sustainability of cultural activities are on the table." (p. 23)
• "(M)aking sharing a crime will not stop it, but it might prevent it from achieving its cultural potential." (p. 25)
• "It is thus in the ‘non-market’ sphere that the advantages of the information revolution are most evident: access to works and knowledge and evaluation of their interest, distributed co-operation towards the production of informational tools such as software, collaborative media, etc." (p. 28)
• "sharing between individuals leads to very different practices in comparison to downloads or streaming from centralized sites: when individuals decide what to make available to others (and this could be all the documents they have in digital form), what they share directly reflects their preferences. By contrast, on centralized sites, there is a bias towards specific contents which are made more visible than others, either through advertising or because many other people are accessing them." (p. 29)
• "Pooling libraries is an old dream, already present in antiquity. The Ptolemies implemented it in a somewhat centralized and confiscatory manner: every ship landing in Alex- andria was required to hand over any papyrus scrolls on board to the Library of Alexandria, where they were kept, the original owners receiving only a copy (Philips 2010)." (p. 30)