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Argentina's intellectual property law dates from 1933 and has undergone successive modifications over the years. Almost all of them were the result of lobbying by the entertainment industries that only care about their own interests and strive to extend monopolies and add new restrictions. He The book Argentina Copyleft: the crisis of the copyright model and practices to democratize culture, is an excellent opportunity to reflect on these issues, in general, not widely publicized in the media. |
The main problem is that there is no public debate about it. It seems that the regulation of culture is an issue that only concerns corporations linked to the entertainment business, their lawyers and certain artists. However, and even more so since the massive digitization of culture, many more of us aspire to contribute to these debates. We are internet users, librarians, teachers and students, independent musicians, Wikipedians, editors, writers, programmers, artists, lovers of culture, communicators, etc. We are citizens who claim the full exercise of our cultural rights.
This book tries to give an account of these other voices that have something to contribute in relation to the Intellectual Property Law in Argentina. Those affected by monopolies and those of us who in one way or another seek to get out of them, claim cultural rights, explore forms of construction in a more just way to create, distribute and strengthen our cultural heritage for the common good.
Publishing organizations
VÃa Libre Foundation
Fundación VÃa Libre is a non-profit organization based in Córdoba, Argentina. Since 2000, it has been working on the dissemination of knowledge and sustainable development, based on the postulates of the global free software movement. VÃa Libre works in defense of freedom and citizen rights within the framework of the inclusion of new information and communication technologies in our daily lives.
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is a non-profit German political foundation, close to the Alianza 90 / Los Verdes party. In order to encourage the promotion of democratic ideas, citizen participation and international understanding, her work focuses on fostering the political values ​​of ecology and sustainable development, women's rights, and gender democracy, democracy and citizenship. , diversity of media and the formation of a critical public opinion, economic integration, globalization and re-regulation. In addition, the Heinrich Böll Foundation promotes art and culture, science, research and international development. His work is based on ecology, democracy, solidarity and non-violence as fundamental political values.
http://www.boell.cl