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Mc Kenzie Wark schreef A Hacker’s Manifesto, een boek dat pleit tegen het intellectuele eigendom van kunst en teksten. Hij verspreidde het vrij via het net en vond uiteindelijk een uitgever met klasse, de Harvard University Press, die weigerde het boek onder een CC-license te verspreiden.

Met het boek legde hij een spannende weg af, die hij hier beschrijft:
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Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

This is one of the 2 main questions I presented at the Open Knowledge 1.0 last Saturday in Limehouse Townhall in London.

The first question deals with the possibility to share and might add some flavour to the discussion about the concept of ‘open’, as in ‘open knowledge’ or ‘open source’.
As a human being and writer – both bodies are intimately related – I naturally tend to favour the principles of sharing, exchange, generating, regenerating and degenerating (:-)). I like to adhere to the idea of ‘open’ culture as it stated in the Free Art License based on the GPL.

All very well, but as an author I am confronted straight away with the limitations of this freedom. What’s more, the open culture seems to be only half open or half closed, unless the notion of ‘open’ also allows for in-between situations.
I’ll make this somewhat clearer for you. I live in Brussels. Officially, it is a bilingual city, unofficially the city is multilingual. As a Dutch-speaking person I often find myself in murky in-between situations.

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