[A2k] Philippe Aigrain: Mutualised schemes for the funding of and reward to creative activities

[Manon Ress]

Soumis par neurone1 le 16 mai, 2008 - 09:43.

Nota for English speaking-readers: the notion of a mutualised scheme
is less familiar in English than in Latin languages (in part because
of the use of "mutual" for companies). We use this expression for
schemes where every potential user contributes equally to the funding
of a global ecosystem of activities.

Two imperatives

        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.

     Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), art. 27

The text that follows addresses two issues that have been up to now
excluded form the official debates on culture and the Internet:

    1. How can it be made possible for all to freely exchange on a non-
profit basis the digital representations of published works [1]?
    2. What can we put in place to fund creative activities and reward
their success?

Let's first see why these questions are legitimate and why they must
be addressed together.

READ MORE AT:
http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/society-wide-schemes-funding-creative-activities-and-their-reward