Julianna Yau’s blog

My mind has been brewing with some of the refocused perspectives I’ve gained in the past few weeks. While those thoughts collect into something substantial, I thought I would take my mind-map of creators and concept of creators’ rights (instead of copyrights) and propose a…

Creators’ Charter of Rights & Freedoms (draft)

1. Right to attribution to works
2. Right to association with works
3. Right to anonymity
4. Right to integrity of work
5. Right to publication of work
6. Right to distribution/dissemination of works
7. Right to duplication of works
8. Right to adaptation of works
9. Right to translations of work
10. Right to freedom of expression
11. Right to creative reuse (PDF warning)/appropriation of others’ works
12. Right to financial renumeration for creation & dissemination of works

And while I’m at it, here’s something to counter-balance creators’ rights:

Readers/Listeners/Viewers‘ Charter of Rights & Freedoms (draft)

1. Right to access public works (to address TPM issues)
2. Right to format-neutrality (to address format-shifting and compatibility issues)
3. Right to privacy
4. Right to cultural appropriation
5. Freedom of choice

I realize the proposed RLV’s charter is much shorter than the creators’. This is not because I feel RLVs should have fewer rights & freedoms, but because I haven’t spent nearly as much time thinking about those rights as the rights of creators’.

What else should be on those charters?