Proposal: Creators’ Charter of Rights & Freedoms
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)
- Right to attribution to works
- Right to association with works
- Right to anonymity
- Right to integrity of work
- Right to publication of work
- Right to distribution/dissemination of works
- Right to duplication of works
- Right to adaptation of works
- Right to translations of work
- Right to freedom of expression
- Right to creative reuse (PDF warning)/appropriation of others’ works
- 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)
- Right to access public works (to address TPM issues)
- Right to format-neutrality (to address format-shifting and compatibility issues)
- Right to privacy
- Right to cultural appropriation
- 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?
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By Julianna Yau
On February 2, 2008
At 3:12 pm
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By Julianna Yau
On February 2, 2008
At 3:12 pm
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I think these things need to be articulated in a way that protects the full rights, and not just specific subsets.
IE:
Right to be associated with a work, as well as the right to not be associated with a work, or to be pseudonymous.
Right to integrity of a work, as well as the right to waive integrity of a contribution to a Peer Production project in order to protect the integrity of the collective (from any disgruntled past contributor).
Thanks, Russell. I was trying to break things down as much as possible, but you’re right–pulling some of the rights together makes more sense.