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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
Vía Libre Foundation
Fundación Vía 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. Vía 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
In these days when ACTA is being debated in the Mexican Senate, I cannot help but reflect that the old model of copyright only serves as a drag so much: for established artists who cannot obtain the benefits they deserve (for a industry and executives who only seek to enrich themselves without doing much), the new artists who try to create in a decadent and dying world that does not give them a chance, and the people (who use the internet or not) who have to put up with an abusive industry .
Excellent entry.
P.S. The new look of the page was very good = D
Congratulations to Let's use Linux but especially to us readers.
Congratulations on the new design. I was scared when I saw tux dressed as Jedy and I went back to see if it was really the usemoslinux.blogspot.com page when I entered.
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Thank you! A hug! Paul.