Révisé le jour de parution pour inclure des commentaires sur la proposition de Participation à la Production de Contenus sur Internet (PPCI) de Philippe Axel dans La révolution musicale, Pearson, 2007, et pour introduire une mention des débats sur les modes de mesure non-intrusive des usages ou accès.
Cet article tente un bilan provisoire des débats sur la contribution créative et d’autres propositions similaires. Il vise à clarifier les enjeux et propositions, au moment où va débuter un débat plus large dans la perspective des futures assises Création-Public-Internet. L’article traite de trois aspects :
- les éléments qui me paraissent nécessaires à tout traitement acceptable des échanges hors marché sur internet et du financement de la création,
- les différents choix possibles dans ce cadre,
- la régulation1 de l’économie d’offre commerciale qui peut être nécessaire en complément à un mécanisme de type contribution créative.
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While the Hadopigate crashes all those that are at hand, micro-HADOPI-related scandals blossom in the lukewarm spring. Most are unknown of all except their occcasional victims, but no less instructive. Such is the cancellation of the conference I was planned to deliver on Thursday 14 May in the Claude Erignac Amphitheater of Sciences Po (the leading Political Sciences university in France). The subject of this conference would have been: which foundations for intellectual rights in the information era?”. I do not know whether its cancellation arises as a result of external pressure or proceeds from an autonomous decision of the Institute for Political Sciences (IEP). The message announcing the cancellation (sent to persons registered to attend the conference) states that “the present news regarding the law being debated make very difficult to serenely organize a meeting on this theme” (my translation). The reader will refer to the abstract below in order to judge the subjects I planned to cover. As for me, I intended this conference to be a welcome return to my work on the philosophy of intellectual rights. I will survive this most likely temporary censorship.
I have a deeper concern for another victim: academic freedom, which is constitutionally recognized in France (cf. Constitutional Court Decision 83-165 of 20 January 1984). In the countries in which I am sometimes honoured by a University invitation, such as for instance the United States or Italy, I hardly see how one of these invitations could be cancelled for a political motive. For this to occur in a political sciences University that trains many of those who will be in charge of key democratic institutions in my own country is stupendous.
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