cse 2009 science commons

CSE 2009

4 may 2009pittsburgh, pa

john wilbanks

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

it’s not about the law, it’s about the network effect.


the right to make and distribute “copies”

the right to make and distribute “derivatives”


“compatibly communicating”



devices.


1.knowledge isn’t communicating compatibly.


journal articlesdata

ontologiesannotations

wikis


“...we don’t ask what the incentive is for the electrons to leave home. We say that the current results from an emergent property of the system, which we call induction.”

eben moglen, 1999


“...we don’t ask what the incentive is for the electrons to leave home. We say that the current results from an emergent property of the system, which we call induction.”

The question we ask is ‘what’s the resistance of the wire?’

eben moglen, 1999


2.the commons - digital “property” is different.


analog

allpossible uses of a

work

uses implicating

© law

fair uses


digital

*where every use is a copy.

uses implicating

© law

allpossible uses of a work*

fair uses


ignoring the law does not scale.


the digital commons - another network layer.


computers

documents

knowledge

tcp/ip

html/http

commons


1,596,270,108 internet users(http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm)


http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

3.creative commons: sharing is easy, legal, and scalable


free culture


Attribution

Non-Commercial No Derivative Works

Share Alike

LicensingStep 1: Choose Conditions


LicensingStep 2: Receive a License


International Jurisdictions


Licensed Objects via G/Y!


image from the public library of sciencelicensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0


what do these ideas mean in

a world of integrated data?


open rights.

multiplicity of incentives.

distributed workloads.


google maps for brain images?

http://sparql.neurocommons.org:8890/map/#Kcnip3@2850,Kcnd1@2800


http://sparql.neurocommons.org:8890/map/

http://sparql.neurocommons.org:8890/map/

two futures.


what can you do?

1. get ahead of the curve.

2. link into data and tools.

3. expect the unexpected.


thank you

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation

CHDI FoundationOmidyar Network

Nike


cse 2009 science commons

Technology

commons digital property

digital commons

creative commons

emergent property ofthe

thecurrent results

eben moglen

public library

network layer