Molly Van Houweling – Professor – Berkeley Law
Copyright 101 and the need for CC. Basics of work for hire.
Here are three other options:
CC0 – public domain
Reform of copyright law
Expanded fair use
Jason Schultz – Samuelson Clinic – EFF
Use your rights to make good law. We do not always have to be on the defensive.
Brian Carver Professor – Berkeley i School
Great talk on Jacobsen v. Katzer I will try and get the slides to put up for more information on this landmark case check out.
Q: How would you rewrite copyright?
Molly: Change back to opt-in.
Jason: Remove statutory damages for most of copyright
Brian Carver: different types of copyright for different types of works
Derek: Blanket License…
Q: @Derek: There was talk of Google using technology to scan videos for copyrighted video or sound and remove them without any inspection of fair use, preemptively. Is this happening, will this happen?
Kind of, we give owners an option to give a fingerprint of there work and then options for what to do with that work when we find it, but we give users the option to claim fair use or legal use in response to an infringement claim.
Q:How do we practically expand fair use rights as students and activist? What options are out there beyond direct law suits? Is it significant that Israel has adopted fair use and Japan is considering it?
Brian Caver: Be creative, give use work we can litgae and make good case law.
Derek: Education is great be careful about rewriting laws.
Jason: Bring fair use education to the classrooms, counter the RIAA and the MPAA propaganda and teach people about fair use directly. People need to learn about their rights and use them before they lose them.
Q: Is DRM dead?
A: it keeps coming back (Brian Note: zombie!)
Brian Carver: It is not dead it is moving to hardware.
Molly: there are some good uses of rights management such as identifying authors.
Seeing the emphasis on using your rights was great. I am skeptical of law suits as the answer.
PS the internet here is a little slow, I will update with more photos later.
