New Book from Rainer Kuhlen
Rainer Kuhlen has just published a new book (german) "Erfolgreiches Scheitern - eine Götterdämmerung des Urheberrechts" about the the changing digital landscape and the difficulties with the copyright transformation. He describes the transformation of the web from the early days till the current web and translates that into the copyright context and the implication to the copyright. He further dives into CreativeCommons and the Open Access Movement to explain how these are changing factors for the copyright and the digital knowledge ecology and draws on the consequences of these changes. Unfortunately the book is only in available in German.
The book is available as a free download under the CreativeCommons licence and can be downloaded here:
http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/RK2008_ONLINE/
But although the book is available for free you are encouraged to donate. The donation will be used to fund the 'Das Aktionsbündnis "Urheberrecht für Bildung und Wissenschaft"'. The goal of the "Aktionsbündnis" is that "In a digitised and networked information society, access to global information for the purposes of education and science must be guaranteed at all times from any place."
Short content overview:
- Vom erfolgreichen Scheitern
- Verkrustungen aufbrechen
- Regulierungswelten, Regulierungsinstanzen
- Urheberrecht im Kontext - Informationsmärkte
- Akteure und Aktionen - Leistungen und Konflikte
- Die kritischen Paragraphen
- Wissensökologie
- Open Access - kopernikanische Wende für die Öffentlichmachung und die freie Nutzung von Wissen
- Geschäfts- und Organisationsmodelle für Open Access
- Konsequenzen
