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Chapter 3: Copying and Distributing via Digital Media - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 3: Copying and Distributing via Digital Media
The ethics of copying: is it theft, Open Source, or Confucian homage to the master?
Intellectual property: three (Western) approaches
Thanks to easy digitalization of media and wide availability of electronic devices, sharing pirated content is easy
Entertainment industry´s lobby pushing for tools to curb piracy (DMCA for example)
US vs Europe
In the US - utalitarian approach arguing that intellectual property protection leads to general good (creators will continue to innovate only if their monetary result is safeguarded)
In Europe more humanistic approach - copyright is viewed as the right of the creator to protect their personal creations.
Copyleft/FLOSS
FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software
Joins 2 movements
FS (Free Software)
Software should not be made for profit
Eric Raymond
OSI (Open Source Initiative)
Make free software interesting to business)
Richard Stallmen
(Copyright - the creator as an individual has the primary right to everything he creates and it´s fully in his power to exclude others from using it
Exclusive point of view)
Copyleft/FLOSS - the community of users is considered to be the base point of view
Inclusive point of view
Creative commons - recognizes the creator´s right to consider his creation to belong to him but also the right of the community to use this creation to a certain extent
Inclusive point of view
Examples of FLOSS practice: Linux, Firefox+Thunderbolt, Wikipedia
Copyright and deontological ethics
Deontological ethics - the rights of others must be protected no matter the unwelcome result to us
A crucial argument however is to establish if the rights/laws are just
Copyright and virtue ethics
Information by nature is a common atribute and is supposed to be shared to the betternment of the society
Culture - again
Generalizations with an exclaimer
US, UK - utalitarian approach
Germanic countries, Scandinavia - deontological approach
Non-western countries based in greater good of community - virtue ethics
Interesting to consider whatw ethics approach would our post-soviet country mindset express in