Fwd: [pdb-discuss] Yikes - introduction page

Fri Feb 16 12:02:33 UTC 2007

Oops, should have gone to list...

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From: Michael Holloway <mhholloway at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [pdb-discuss] Yikes - introduction page
To: Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>

Hi Tom

On Rufus' instruction I've been developing text for the site. I see your
point but did not appreciate the parameters of the project so am happy to
edit as directed...

Ta

On 2/16/07, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> The new site is looking really nice, but I'm worried about a paragraph in
> the introduction page:
>
> "Redefining the Public Domain
> Traditionally the public domain was defined as all intellectual works that
> could be copied, used and reused freely without legal restriction. In line
> with contemporary academia, we subscribe to an expanded notion which instead
> equates the public domain with 'open' knowledge, that is, all ideas and
> information that can be freely used, redistributed and reused. The notion of
> 'free' in this context should be loosely interpreted to include, for
> example, licence terms that require derivative works ( e.g. Mash-ups) must
> themselves be published under 'open' terms."
> http://blog.publicdomainworks.net/?page_id=8
>
> That argument has its place (Benkler has given a similar argument a big
> boost, Pam Samuelson suggested it is a sensible default in general public
> discourse) but I don't think that place is on the PDW web site. PDW is, so
> far as I understand, just for works in the legal/constitutional public
> domain, i.e. works out of copyright. Unless PDW also intends to host a
> wide variety of copyleft/CC works then I suggest we stick to explaining that
> we mean the legal public domain, and perhaps have a footnote explaining that
> visitors might be interested in a wider discussion about the term, maybe
> linking to Samuelson's excellent paper on the subject?
>
> http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/enriching%20discourse%20on%20public%20domains.pdf<http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/%7Epam/papers/enriching%20discourse%20on%20public%20domains.pdf>
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
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