A presentation from the Document Freedom Day held at the European Parliament on March 30, 2011.

1. Necessary freedoms for information society Kaido Kikkas Associate Professor, Estonian IT College Associate Professor of Social and Free Software, Tallinn University [email_address] Document Freedom Day European Parliament Brussels, March 30, 2011 This material is published under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 3.0 Estonia license

3. „The Gods Must Be Crazy“ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

4. The Bushmen vs the Coke bottle – a novel, desirable object that could not be replicated

5. WAS IT A BLESSING OR A CURSE?

7. Example: value of water for the Vikings vs the Bedouins

8. Earlier: wars over resources

9. Later: „civilised discussion“ and agreements

10. Entrenchment of the „scarcity meme“

13. Most of the legal system has only learned to follow the scarcity meme

14. Now what?

16. Rapid spread of nonmarket production, widening base

17. effective, large-scale cooperative efforts in peer production of information, knowledge, and culture

18. MORE AND MORE THINGS CAN NOT BE EXPLAINED BY MARKET ONLY

20. Is a mindquake happening in the IP issues..?

23. What happens in IT sector in 5 weeks?

24. How can static laws control dynamic IT...?

26. Free flow versus artificial scarcity

29. Most importantly will short-circuit lots of cooperative efforts (due to requirement chain)

31. Study

32. Modify

34. A warning example: http://webshop.ffii.org/

36. Freedom that is hard to exploit – scenarios like ”first we eat your bread and then everyone eats his own” need to be prevented (by law if necessary: the copyleft principle is a prime tool for that)

37. Document freedom can help to achieve both

39. GPL license family – GPL, LGPL, AGPL

40. In some cases, non-copyleft licenses like BSD, MIT, X11 licenses

41. Creative Commons content license family

42. Note: compatibility remains an issue

44. The Singapore model – the „tax paradise“ needs far too cheap labour force to be usable

47. Information (and knowledge) society implies free flow of information which is largely nonmarket

48. The legal system must adapt better

49. Business will survive (monkey business perhaps not)

50. Europe has to decide whether to play along

52. Larry Lessig ( Free Culture a.o.)

53. Yochai Benkler ( The Wealth of Networks a.o.)

54. Peter Barnes ( Capitalism 3.0 )

55. Robert Theobald ( The Rapids of Change a.o.)

56. Christopher Kelty ( Two Bits )

57. ...

58. http://wiki.kakupesa.net/index.php/The_Playful_Cleverness_Reading_List (a collection)

59. Thank you The slides will be available at http://www.slideshare.net/UncleOwl