[A2k] thoughts on Paris TACD meeting

Fri May 19 04:56:05 2006

	Good morning all,

	I think that the term "alliance" will be one of
	the political joker for times to come. It means
	that civil society will not only "ask for" (for
	access to knowledge, for development agenda,for...)
	but is also acting for "doing" the necessary
	society beneficial contracts. It's not new Rousseauism,
	but a political product of the end of cold war and
	the new experiences of social movments at dawn of
	20th century. Most notably the Free Software movment.
	But also the "equitable trade action" (a typical
	case of a new "alliance" between consummers and producers).
	Many look at the Seattle action against WTO as a swarming
	alliance of very different movements. And in the
	developping world, the "like minded countries", or
	some other "alliances" are renewing the concept of
	the Bandung "non -alignés" loosely coupled agreements.

	But any term will be good that can pinpoint that our
	objective is to build a new equilibrium that is the only
	way to fullfill rights (moral and economic) of producers
	of knowledge and the society benefits, as a whole (expansion
	of knowledge, understanding of the new global situation
	that can boost a new global and local (glocal) citizenship,...)
	and for any of its member (an AIDS person who can afford
	medicine that is known to help his living).

	For the many reasons that were explained at the a2k cnference
	in Yale last month, we need to put our action under the
	umbrella of a new interpretation of Human Rights, but the
	existing corpus of interpretation is for now a support of
	monopolist industries that capture the very essence of
	creation, innovation and knowledge to extend commodification
	of culture. I agree with Jamie that we need not to let them
	use Human Right for their own interest. So we have to incorpore
	a reference to the legal international body of these rights.

	But we are building something new : how to have an economy,
	a world wide exchange and a mutual benefit by expanding the
	commons and the public domain, and not by putting new enclosures
	that bind "property" and "economy". We need to be proprietary of
	our lives (a Human Right most haven't), of our creations (the
	"moral rights"), but we only need fair and equitable return on
	the economic side.

	That really is a new alliance. That go further.

	And as a tactical slant : Human Rights activists have really
	a hard work at the present time. May be we just get it harder
	for them to add a new controversy on this legal body. We have
	to ask them before entering this arena more precisely that a
	reference from our point of view : for the a2k movment, our
	way of thinking spreading of knowledge is a part of UHDR that
	need very special attention because knowledge and culture is
	the very glue of modern society.

	I will try further to write something on the draft text for the
	parts i know of... and please apologize for my english jargon.

Hervé Le Crosnier


James Love a écrit :
> Some follow-up thoughts on the June 19-20 Paris TACD event.
>
> The idea of focusing the meeting on a document that was an agreement
> between consumers and creative communities has been pretty well
> received, and it looks like we will do this.
>
> Some have pointed out that the term Paris Alliance is too similar to
> the pretty similar 'L Alliance Public-Artistes, which is a quite
> important coalition in France to address the issues of digital
> distribution of music, photos, and other works.    So, possibly, the
> document would be called:
>
>     The Paris Accord / Accord de Paris
>     The Paris Agreement, or
>     The Paris Declaration.
>
> I prefer:  the Paris Accord.
>
> We might want to do a T-Shirt for the event, which might be something
> like:
>
> -----------
> Access + Livelihoods
>
> Accord de Paris, les 19 et 20 Juin 2006
> -----------
>
> However, I'm not sure if the term livelihoods works well.
>
> Other possibility would be to borrow language from Article 27 of the
> Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>
>
> In English:
>
> Universal Declaration of Human Rights
> Article 27.
>
> (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life
> of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific
> advancement and its benefits.
>
> (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and
> material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or
> artistic production of which he is the author.
>
> In French
>
> Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme
>
> Article 27
>
> 1. Toute personne a le droit de prendre part librement à la vie
> culturelle de la communauté, de jouir des arts et de participer au
> progrès scientifique et aux bienfaits qui en résultent
>
> 2. Chacun a droit à la protection des intérêts moraux et matériel=
s
> découlant de toute production scientifique, littéraire ou artistique
> dont il est l'auteur.
>
> .........
> Key concepts are:
>
>      Everyone, participates, enjoys , shares, and protects moral and
> material interests.
>
> But not sure how to reduce this to a slogan, and possibly, this won't
> work for other reasons.
>
>
> ---------------------------------
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>
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>
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