January 2010


The first part of Sharing and Creative Economy: Culture in the Internet Age is on-line. It is an extended and adapted English version of the Internet & Création book published in French at InLibroVeritas in October 2008. Visit also the dossier in la Quadrature du Net’s site.

Intellectual entities belong to the public domain, except if allowing their temporary appropriation is absolutely needed and does not result in unacceptable consequences.
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10 years after the formulation of this programme, 12 years after the earlier analysis from James Boyle, at last the Public Domain has its manifesto. Read it, disseminate it, adopt its principles, promote its recommendations.

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Your most useful contribution to La Quadrature du Net lies in your ideas, your comments, your initiatives and your creativity when defending our common positions. However La Quadrature du Net also needs some financial means to keep its continuous actions going. La Quadrature du Net’s co-founders have set an ambitious target of raising at least 70,000 € of individual Internet users support for the 4th trimester 2009 to end of 2010 period in order to complement the support already received, principally from OSI. This means more than 60% of individual donations for the 115,000 € global budget for this period. A campaign was launched and reached its full pace these last 3 days. More than 40,000 € have already been collected. An additional effort is needed to each the target. Support La Quadrature du Net!

Pour une analyse générale des recommandations du rapport issu de la mission Zelnik, on lira le communiqué de presse de La Quadrature du Net. Les limites de ce document ne permettaient cependat pas d’y inclure tous les éléments dignes d’être commentés. Voici quelques bonus.

Des critiques faibles de la contribution créative

Commençons par ce dont il ya lieu de se réjouir. La page 134 du rapport fournit une analyse comparée de la proposition de contribution créative (avec quelques confusions avec la licence globale), des propositions de la SACEM et de l’ADAMI et de la proposition du rapport de créer une gestion collective obligatoire de la mise à disposition pour streaming ou téléchargement. Les critiques adressées à la contribution créative, y sont très faibles :

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