Private forces put the commons under pressure. The digital public domain demands another approach to protection of the commons, and also inspires another type of activism. If the insurgents had had a digital network, the French Revolution might have been a Communist revolution. Is copyright a means to protect innovation or has it been perverted to a new apogee of class struggle between corporations and consumers? Let’s prove the ‘tragedy of the commons’ wrong and wake up from consumer paradise. Everybody is an activist in light of today’s ecological challenges.
COPYLEFT FESTIVAL 2008: ‘BE RIGHT, BE COPYLEFT’
Author unknown, source: www.bibliotecarezzo.it
COPYLEFT COMMIES FLAG
Illustration: Xeni Jardin. Source: boingboing.net/2005/01/05/bill_gates_free_cult.html
COPYLEFT IN GREECE
Author unknown, source: www.copyleft.gr
CREATIVE COMMIES
Illustration: Jaime Source: www.boingboing.net/2005/01/06/creative_commies.html
COPYLEFT ON INDYMEDIA ➝ AUTHORS AND OWNERS / ANDREW KATZ
Author unknown, Source: www.indymedia.ie
MYCREATIVITY CONVENTION, AMSTERDAM 2006
Author unknown
FUNDACIÓN COPYLEFT, MADRID
Source: www.mediateletipos.net
KIDNAPPING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Source: www.p2p-blog.com/index.php?blogid=1&archive=2007-06
ANARCOPY
Illustration: Roderick Long (‘Either intellectual property means slavery, or it means nothing at all.’)
NO COPYRIGHT ➝ NO MORE BESTSELLERS / JOOST SMIERS
Author unknown, source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:nocopyright.png
COPYLEFT PIRATE SYMBOL
Author unknown