@gutenberg_org From the Wikipedia page: "World Book and Copyright Day...is an annual event organized by [the] United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote reading, publishing, and copyright."

I'm all in on the former two planks and 100% opposed to the latter plank. Copyright chills the spread of knowledge. Sounds like the publishing cartel got UNESCO to promote their propaganda.

"Copyright is brain damage."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc

#OpenCulture

@elaterite @gutenberg_org
I Disagree

Copyright is what allows an open culture to emerge. As an author, you have the control of what and how people are allowed to use and reuse your creations.

To get open culture, you need the culture, and this goes by respecting people and their work, which means respecting copyright. The open parts is dealt with licenses, not with absence of copyright.

That is why, AI crations, that are disrespectfully stealing from creative work, cannot ever be (open) culture.

@jcolomb "[Y]ou have the control of what and how people are allowed to use and reuse your creations."

In my mind that stymies the advancement of culture, of art. To advance society we need to build upon the work of the past, each generation standing on the shoulders of past generations.
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@elaterite @gutenberg_org

I think this only work if the new generation is not stealing the work, but building on it, recognizing the importance of the past in their present. It goes with a respect for the authors and their decisions.

Culture and not cultural appropriation.

(In science - since you took the shoulder analogy - this is also important, as you need to be able to doubt your foundation if you want to build on top of it)

PS: while I use the word stealing, I do not think of this primarily in economic terms, it is more personal than that (can't really explain what I mean here, sorry, seems it is not yet clear in my mind...)