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Cory Doctrow Recounts Alliance With Immortals
Tim_H · Cambridge (United States) · 16/6/2007 23:14 · 29 votes
Cory Doctrow, discussing strategies for activism, recounted that some of his best allies in the copyfight included such diverse figures as the distinguished “400-year old immortal vampire senators” and the Society for Biblical Literature.
The discussion, part of a larger panel on “A Culture Enviromentalist Movement And Beyond,” moderated by John Wilbanks of Science Commons, featured James Boyle of the Creative Commons (CC) board and Jennifer Jenkins of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain (CSPD), in addition to Doctrow.
Boyle began the session by stressing the importance of seeing the environmentalist movement as a parallel model. He hoped that the movement, by finding ways to merge the interests of disparate communities, would be able to accomplish mobilize. He commented on the ability for the environmentalist movement to find common ground between hunters and bird watchers.
Jenkins presented new efforts made by CSPD to improve intellectual property education through the creation of “Bound By Law?” a comic book devoted to making issues simpler to understand.
Doctrow urged that the movement adopt a model combining wildly differing ideologies with similar objectives in a “big tent” large enough to hold everyone. He suggested that Creative Commons might emerge as a point of least agreement for collaboration between many groups.
The group also spent time reviewing larger shifts in the movement as a whole in the past few years. Boyle suggested that one of the more important changes in the push for liberalized copyright has been the move from being a “purely negative” movement to one positioned to begin offering positive alternatives.
It was also offered that the movement has begun to attract an increasingly large group of players. Doctrow noted that technology companies, after years of evading or working against activists in these fields, had finally “stepped up to the plate.”
Audience member and Free Culture member Gavin Baker ended the session on a note of affirmation, mentioning “like it or not, we are a movement.”
The discussion, part of a larger panel on “A Culture Enviromentalist Movement And Beyond,” moderated by John Wilbanks of Science Commons, featured James Boyle of the Creative Commons (CC) board and Jennifer Jenkins of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain (CSPD), in addition to Doctrow.
Boyle began the session by stressing the importance of seeing the environmentalist movement as a parallel model. He hoped that the movement, by finding ways to merge the interests of disparate communities, would be able to accomplish mobilize. He commented on the ability for the environmentalist movement to find common ground between hunters and bird watchers.
Jenkins presented new efforts made by CSPD to improve intellectual property education through the creation of “Bound By Law?” a comic book devoted to making issues simpler to understand.
Doctrow urged that the movement adopt a model combining wildly differing ideologies with similar objectives in a “big tent” large enough to hold everyone. He suggested that Creative Commons might emerge as a point of least agreement for collaboration between many groups.
The group also spent time reviewing larger shifts in the movement as a whole in the past few years. Boyle suggested that one of the more important changes in the push for liberalized copyright has been the move from being a “purely negative” movement to one positioned to begin offering positive alternatives.
It was also offered that the movement has begun to attract an increasingly large group of players. Doctrow noted that technology companies, after years of evading or working against activists in these fields, had finally “stepped up to the plate.”
Audience member and Free Culture member Gavin Baker ended the session on a note of affirmation, mentioning “like it or not, we are a movement.”
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