Dear all,
I hope you'll forgive me for contacting you yet again in such a short span of time - yet another exciting copyright-related opportunity to share!
An ally of ours, EFF, is organizing Copyright Week from Jan 22 - Jan 26 (see email below). They have asked if there are any blogs that might fit with the themes of this year. These will be shared on social media etc and get a nice boost in coverage. The themes are:
- Public Domain (@Paolo Casagrande paolo.casagrande@wikimedia.it) - AI & Copyright ( @Silvia Gutiérrez silviaegt@wikimedia.org & @Giovanna Fontenelle gfontenelle@wikimedia.org) - Device & Digital Ownership - Free Expression and Fair Use (@Mehman Ibragimov mehman@wikimedia.ge, @Justice Okai-Allotey owulakpakpo@gmail.com, @Douglas Scott Douglas.I.Scott@gmail.com) - Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship
*Do you have any blogs or published materials that you'd like me to share with the organizers? *Please let me know by Wednesday, January 17.
Thank you and have a lovely weekend,
Ziski
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Katharine Trendacosta via Copyright-week copyright-week@eff.org Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM Subject: [Copyright-week] Copyright Week 2024 To: public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org < public-interest-copyright@publicknowledge.org>, Recreate Coalition < core-copyright-reform-coalition@googlegroups.com>, copyright-week@eff.org < copyright-week@eff.org>
Hello! We are once again heading up Copyright Week. As usual, feel free to send me any blogs you have that might fit any of the (very broad) topics and we will social them around.
This year, Copyright Week will run from the 22nd to the 26th of January, with each day having a theme. Don’t worry about when your blogs are published, we will just be sharing them on those days.
Jan. 22: Public Domain The public domain is our cultural commons and a crucial resource for innovation and access to knowledge. Copyright should strive to promote, and not diminish, a robust, accessible public domain.
Jan 23: Device and Digital Ownership As the things we buy increasingly exist either in digital form or as devices with software, we also find ourselves subject to onerous licensing agreements and technological restrictions. If you buy something, you should be able to truly own it – meaning you can learn how it works, repair it, remove unwanted features, or tinker with it to make it work in a new way.
Jan 24: Copyright and AI The growing availability of AI, especially generative AI trained on datasetts that include copyrightable material, has raised new debates about copyright law. It’s important to remember the limitations of copyright law in giving the kind of protections creators are looking for.
Jan 25: Free Expression and Fair Use Copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Fair use makes it possible for us to comment, criticize, and rework our common culture.
Jan 26: Copyright Enforcement as a Tool of Censorship Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right essential to a functioning democracy. Copyright should encourage more speech, not act as a legal cudgel to silence it.
Best,
Katharine