DRM Is Toxic To Culture

We oppose DRM. | Defective by Design

The Ethical Tech Giving Guide replaces DRM-laden software and devices that trample user freedom and privacy with products and programs that you can trust.

DRM's Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It,

EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME

Digital Commons: Our Shared Right to Knowledge and Culture

As the volume of cultural and scientific works produced and available on the internet continues to expand, the question of freedom to consult and use this immense ‘digital commons’ is becoming a critical one, particularly as cutting off access could entail serious consequences for education, cultural exchange, and even the health of European citizens.

Unesco warns the World Wide Web Consortium that DRM is incompatible with free expression

Unesco's Frank La Rue has published a letter to Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, warning him of the grave free-speech consequences of making DRM for the…

Katerina Marchán (@zkat@toot.cat)

Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi). We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.

On Betraying Principles

Why Creative Commons must be about more than reducing friction on reuse This week, I had the experience of being told the work we are doing at Creative Commons right now is betraying the founding principles of the organization. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last.

Yes, All DRM

Everybody knows that the digital locks of DRM on the digital media you own is a big problem. If you’ve bought a digital book, album, or movie, you should be able to do what you want with it—whether

Digital commons

The digital commons refers to shared digital resources—such as software, knowledge, data, and cultural content—that are collectively produced and governed by a community and intended for public use.[1][2] These commons are distinguished by open access, participatory management, and licensing practices that preserve reuse and redistribution. Digital commons play a vital role in areas such as education, research, software development, and civic engagement.

What To Do If Prosecuted For Sharing Culture: STFU

Every now and then, somebody is prosecuted for sharing culture in violation of the copyright monopoly. Here's what you should know if you're worried...

Copyright | AGENCY FOR CULTURAL AFFAIRS

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Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft

You Can't Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web's core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to

Unlocking the commons

"The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don't just permit but <em>insist</em> that the product be given away for free."

Collectief Eigendom

Cultural practices of collective ownership over natural resources have been around for quite some time. Do these ways of working have a digital counterpart? It may seem simple at first. To translate cultural practices of collective ownership into the digital realm, just use a Creative Commons license to allow others to make use of your work, share further modifications, and contribute to the wealth of the digital commons. That’s it. Some stories are just too good to be true.