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On 4/30/2013 8:02 PM, Drew wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Hey Spencer, your summary why copyright reform is
needed for A2K human rights is very helpful and I'll look
for a way to include it in the material. <br>
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Thanks. I'd be willing to help more. That industry is due
for a haircut. Their excesses started Lessig on the road to
"Republic, Lost". Some of my perspective is beyond what Lessig
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style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b>
Spencer Graves <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:spencer.graves@prodsyse.com"><spencer.graves@prodsyse.com></a><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a>; Drew
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Friday, April 26, 2013 4:31 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [GPSCC-chat] DA GREEN PARTY CLUB - A2K IS A
HUMAN RIGHT - FORUM AT 1:30 PM WED MAY 1<br>
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wish to share a perspective on this as the
author of 2 books, 30 published technical
papers, 3 patents and software used all over the
world: <br>
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1. The copyright clause in the US
constitution says, that "To promote the Progress
of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries." Virtually all the changes in
copyright law over the past 40 years have
violated this purpose, extending the copyright
period from a max of 28 years to 99 and
essentially infinite, and broadening the range
of application to "derivative works" with such
vague language as to give the major media
conglomerates legal grounds for SLAPP (Strategic
Lawsuit against Public Participation) suits
against potential competitors. My primary
reference on copyright law is the Wikipedia
article on "Free Culture (book)". The industry
successfully sued lawyers who represented MP3
and venture capitalists supporting Napster on
questionable grounds with the sole purpose
reducing competition to the major media
conglomerates. The industry won, because the
lawyers and venture capitalists knew that they
could not afford the legal fees to fight the
cases because the copyright laws were too
vague; they settled out of court. This and
other actions have a chilling effect on
creativity. Lessig in "Free Culture" claims the
first commercially successful Mickey Mouse
cartoon movie, "Steamboat Willie", might not
have been produced under current copyright law,
because that cartoon might have been considered
a "derivative work" of a Buster Keaton film,
"Steamboat Bill, Jr.", produced earlier that
year. The most dynamic comics industry in the
world is in Japan, because the Japanese simply
refuse to use the existing copyright law
(written to comply with international norms
established essentially be US law). <br>
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2. Virtually 100% of the
application of current US copyright law to
technical articles violates the provisions of
the US constitution "to promote the progress of
science and useful arts". I'm an author on 30
published technical papers. I was required to
transfer the copyright to the publisher for the
vast majority of those in exchange only for the
privilege of seeing the work published. That
made sense prior to the Internet. It no longer
makes sense, even for archives of journals
published prior to the Internet. These could be
digitized at a relatively low one-time cost and
made available to the world for free. They
aren't, because US copyright law is outdated and
maintained by the legalized bribery of our
current system of private financing political
campaigns in the US. <br>
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3. I've received small royalty
payments for one of the 2 books. The royalty is
nice, but it's so small, it was NOT even
considered in my decision on whether to write
that book. The only reason I agreed to have the
book published by Springer was because they have
established distribution processes. I would
have preferred web publishing, but my lead
co-author had a relationship with Springer, so I
didn't fight that. However, again, the my
motivation in producing that work was unrelated
to what the publishers tell congress about that,
and the copyright violates the constitutional
purpose of copyright law. <br>
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4. Popular textbooks may be
different: I don't know for sure, but I believe
that the royalties from popular textbooks for
established technical authors can be substantial
and can encourage the production of such
textbooks. However, Wikiversity provides a
platform for collaborative production of
training materials under the Creative Commons
attribution share-alike license. Wikimedia
projects include a feature to "Create a book":
Any prof can create the book they want from
established content in Wikimedia projects
tailored to what they think should be taught.
Profs all over the world collaborate to create
that content. This is a mechanism for providing
access to the best available knowledge selected
by local profs that does not rely on established
book publishers, which justify huge royalties
based on the relatively low production volumes.
Once again, we don't need to pay individual
authors to write popular textbooks: We can get
better textbooks from committees of profs
teaching similar material all over the world,
kept as current as profs can keep themselves
current. And again, the constitutional purpose
for copyright law is violated but too a lesser
extent than for published technical papers and
research monographs. <br>
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Thanks for organizing this event. Feel
free to quote me if you think it could be
useful. <br>
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Spencer <br>
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On 4/25/2013 10:51 PM, <a
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:72pt;"><font face="Calibri">frE uR
tXbk$!</font></span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font
face="Calibri"><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:36pt;">A2K:
</span></b><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:24pt;">Access</span></b><b
style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:36pt;">
to Knowledge</span></b><b style="
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font
size="3"><font face="Calibri">“Information
is power. But like all power, there
are those who want to keep it for
themselves. The world’s cultural
heritage … locked up by a handful of
private corporations … The <b
style="">Open Access Movement </b>has
fought valiantly to allow anyone to
access it.”</font></font></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt
2.5in;text-indent:0.5in;"><font size="3"><font
face="Calibri"><span style=""> </span>–
<b style="">Aaron Swartz 1986 – 2013,
A2K hero & martyr.</b></font></font></div>
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style="margin:0in 0in
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style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:36pt;"><font
face="Calibri">May Day A2K!</font></span></b></div>
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style="margin:0in 0in
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style=""><span
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face="Calibri">A2K = a human right</font></span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><font
size="3"><font face="Calibri">On May Day
the traditional celebration day for
liberation join <b style="">DR.
CRYSTALLEE CRAIN</b>, and DA Student
Trustee <b style="">VINCE MENDOZA, </b>to
learn about De Anza Student Advocacy
Group’s work on</font></font></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:24pt;"><font face="Calibri">OER (Open
Educational Resources)</font></span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:24pt;"><font face="Calibri">TIME: Wed.
May 1 from 1:30 – 3:30 pm</font></span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:24pt;"><font face="Calibri">PLACE:
Student Center Conference Room A</font></span></b></div>
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face="Calibri"><font size="3">Sponsors:</font><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:36pt;"> </span><b style=""><span
style="line-height:115%;font-size:16pt;">DA
GREEN PARTY CLUB</span></b><b
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font-size:36pt;"></span></b></font></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
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of Community and Civic Engagement</font></font></div>
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<div class="yiv3587853848MsoNormal"
style="margin:0in 0in
10pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><font
size="3"><font face="Calibri">Office of
Equity, Social Justice and
Multicultural Education</font></font></div>
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