[A2k] The public as creative community

[James Love]

This too should be seen as a placeholder... to facilitate discussion.

The public as creative community

1.	The development of the Internet and other computing, audio, video
and information technologies have opened up a wide range of new
opportunities for the public to directly participate as creative
individuals and communities.

2.	Many of the most widely viewed web sites are those that point to,
showcase or host works that are created and made available for free
by the public.

3.	The explosion of web pages, listserves, personal weblogs and other
new publishing platforms and technologies, such as search engines and
collaborative editing and publishing tools, are part of the rise of a
new and dynamic creative community that will change society, and
challenge older publishing models.

4.	Intellectual property rules must be evaluated to determine if or
how copyright and other norms will accommodate and these
developments, in order to support rather than undermine the
opportunities for more democratic, open and collaborative
participation in the production and disseminations of creative works.

5.	It is essential that the public have the opportunity to freely use
world wide web hypertext links and other tools to point to
information, and to make copies and use excerpts of other published
works, in order to engage in criticism, commentary and analysis, and
to design new technologies and methods to expand the power of
collaborative creative efforts.

6.	These rights should not be undermined by DRM measures.

7.	The ability of persons to engage in anonymous speech is important,
as well as the right to protect confidential sources.

8.	Bloggers must be protected from frivolous or abusive threats and
lawsuits by copyright owners, or others that assert limits of  speech
or the use or sharing of information, particularly in the context of
reviews or criticisms of important political, economic or cultural
figures or institutions.

9.	Bloggers should not be liable for third parties' comments on
blogs.  Immunity for online publishers should be extended to the
public when engaged in that activity..

10.	Bloggers must have the same right to access to blog from public
events as to journalists from traditional news organizations.

11.	The ability of the public to use web pages, blog, listserves and
other platforms to  about work but whistle blowing should be in??????

12.	All workshops and conferences should provide open wifi-
connections for participants.


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James Love, CPTech / www.cptech.org / mailto:james.love@cptech.org /
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"If everyone thinks the same: No one thinks."  Bill Walton