Why "In the Beginning ... was the Command Line, IMAGINE ... NO COPYRIGHT. One of the best ways - ideal - to ensure a healthy coexistence between humans is Dialogue. When readiness for dialogue we each of us in our actions are guided by what we know as our own Principles and also best for the space of freedom we give to the coexistence of the principles of others, that defined in this blog as an exercise of "plurality" ...
humans we accumulate diversity of principles that we developed over our life thanks to the combination of our own experiences with education we have received to be considered for individuals adjusted to the ideal citizen in our society, and this is a process akin to most ideologies, religions and philosophies, the principles governing the societies of our world today.
our other blogs, once we analyze a phenomenon found in our relationships and our conversations over the internet: it is that we have seen many demonstrations of people tend to confuse principles with prejudice. For purposes of this exhibition in the literary media blog free, let's consider the principles as an intellectual construct each one, a product of particular Offer choice of Ethics , you can purchase through culture and education, and example Moral, that provides the company with which they have close contact ... And let us consider a " Prejudice" as a concept is assimilated without prior reasoning without further analysis, received from a transmitter of messages unquestionably be accepted as valid and authorized , for example, institutions Religious, Political Parties, Corporations Economics, or producers of consumer goods to disseminate their guidelines or they will inevitably seek to encourage consumption their products through Cinema, Television, Commercial, or until the masses and religious worship services or political rallies ... and that these guidelines or lines of thought developed by these organizations we can identify as "Dogma", differentiated these the "Principles" if we refer precisely the close relationship between Faith and Prejudice.
The modest action here at the blog, "Free Books" , is a collaboration with the Cultural dissemination, intended as free, independent, pluralistic and diverse, non-profit ... and tend to foster an encounter among our colleagues and fellow students, interested and curious, with national and world authors, artists and scholars thought. But can any of our users and employees or a visitor - perhaps motivated by a prejudice - wonder if it's right or wrong if our initiative, or perhaps inspired by this doubt by the continuing discussion on copyright and these days takes more force from legal action and controversy about them being experienced today in cultural sectors in countries Spain, or the promotion of restrictions on the dissemination and condemnation of piracy, which have their origin in the initiatives of business chambers and associations formed by consortia of companies producing consumer goods that promote these laws in the United States.
From our blog "Free Books" we will try to contribute to this universal discussion on copyright, whose outcome, which was, would affect the development of our human culture the development of education is our Latin American countries, and even the possibility we can create conditions to reach a future coexistence that currently is only possible in an ideal world, possible, or fictional utopian.
From another perspective, oriented more playful, or poetic, imagine that our literary outreach initiative recalls the archetype of the bards, minstrels in the Middle Ages central west, from the point view of the writer and surrealist painter, Leonora Carington, in his novel "The trumpet Acoustic"
"... As you no doubt already know, my mission to through the ages has been bringing news ce no Nsure people without distinction of rank or position. This has made me unpopular with the constituted authorities to across the entire planet. My goal is to help humans discover living in a state of slavery and plunder immoral part of power-hungry beings ... " (Leonora Carrington, the trumpet Acustica, Monteavila Publishers )
History indivudual defense of copyright is a recent development of our human culture, at least in our Western cultural tradition, as stated by another defender of the public domain of knowledge:
".. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey romances mester of minstrelsy or the Thousand and One Nights ... that is, the entire Western cultural foundation was formed by works derived, born of a genuine process of collective creation. The two main European Renaissance writers, Cervantes and Shakespeare, do not break in fact this tradition. Shakespeare, as Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, take, patched, modified, pre-existing works to turn them into masterpieces that today they are associated. Lope, is in fact, Rembrandt author mode or great Flemish painters, director of a creative workshop that introduces only his pen directly in specific parts of the works ... "( David de Ugarte, http://deugarte.com/author/deugarte )
present three texts and two authors from two completely different perspectives we can bring to a focus highly critical of the struggle of some sectors by the stubborn defense of the rights of the author, commonly known as "Copyright", and the release or detention of knowledge and its impact on human culture
First, we present two publications Smiers Joost, who we know from articles in the same web, a professor of Political Science in Arts and Economics Research Group, School of Arts of Utrecht (Netherlands ), the first book in question is " A World Without Copyright", followed of book "Imagine ... No Copyright " whose translations into English are the property of the publisher GEDIS, having paid the work of translation to the authors of them. of both texts libertarians began to find fragments that fill us with inspiration in our work on the blog "Free the Books "
(...) la base filosófica del sistema de copyright actual se apoya en un malentendido: la originalidad de los artistas es inagotable, concepto que se aplica a creadores e intérpretes. Pero la realidad indica otra cosa, porque los artistas siempre tienen en cuenta las obras creadas en el pasado y en el presente, y agregan elementos al corpus existente. Esos agregados merecen respeto y admiración, pero sería inadecuado otorgar a sus creadores, intérpretes y productores derechos de exclusividad monopólicos sobre algo que se inspira en knowledge and creativity that are part of public domain and are a product of the work of other artists. ( Smiers, 'a world without copyright ", citing Barthes, 1968, Boyle, 1996:42, 53-59)
"From a cultural perspective we can ask whether and
t is justified to recognize individuals' rights
Ownership expressions. Why? The property matches
with the exclusive right and monopoly on the use of a
expression. That right may be attenuated, for example, when
is for educational purposes, however, the owner has much
power to exclude others from using a certain artistic expression
. The consequence is that this is privatized a
substantial part of our human communication. Here defend
that not only is a small flaw in a system, otherwise
benign, has been derailed by the actions
of "[Valenti ack 'at the beginning of the 1980-
investors creativity the largest scale imaginable
or not, the basic principle of copyright undermines our democracy.
How could it be otherwise if strict conditions, or
even possible to ban the use of large proportions
words, pictures, melodies and imagination we need, so
pressing for the development of
communication human ?
(Smiers, Joost, Imagine ... No Copyright, p. 20) "
" .. our conclusion can be none other than the judge unacceptable a system that grants exclusive monopoly control of our artistic expressions to the private sphere, whether individuals or companies, "without even having to mitigate some that control, for example on educational. "(Smiers, Joost, Imagine ... No Copyright, p. 32) "
As if it were a great paradox of the Essay "In the Beginning ... was the Command Line" Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, has become over time since its publication in a kind of digital Bible to understand the business world that lies behind the marketing strategies of major producers of personal computers in the world, and this analysis, the possible emergence of free software. That is why we present this text as the third of which we will share in this issue, although not directly addressing the discussion of Copyright, we include it on this occasion because it tells a version free, open and plural of the true story of the relationship between hardware and software developers in the U.S., and we believe that the juxtaposition of these three texts, there may be a slightly larger reflection of the complexity of elements involved in the controversy of copyright today ...
For us, three basic texts, which, like monks of the Abbey of St. Leibowitz, we recommend applying our own dogma of our blog, yes, we recommend not linking this dogma with any kind of prejudice ...
".. Inspired by the works of Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, Illustrated Man), and Walter R Miller (A Canticle for Leibowitz): We recommend that when you download a book of this blog: a) .-, keep a copy on a CD, Flash Drive, or the hard drive of your computer b) .- Upload a copy of the book downloaded to a portal for the dissemination of free literature d) .- take a copy of information and documentation centers, e) .- Memorize the book's text. Let's help everyone to release the books ... "
