Archive:Stepping out of the shadow

Goals

 * Goal A: People are able to talk about ideas and information without using the word property.
 * Goal B: People are able to talk about the flow of information and ideas as a dialogue and can talk about how their activities will provide freedoms for new generations.
 * Goal C: Lead organisations in free culture and commons thinking are not scoped by USA DMCA copyright law, and while they are able to do great things in the shadow of this law they are also able to communicate all the ways that information works as a cultural lifeblood, in situations where it is not managed as real estate but is a tool in a wider context.
 * Goal D: There is a good understanding of business models which are not based around restriction of access as a result of great work by free culture and commons groups.
 * Goal E: New business models are developing and promoted by free culture and commons organisations which help people who would like to explore creating without restriction.
 * Goal F: Mandatory branding of the access profile of items sold in shops, and searchable on the internet. People can see specifically what kinds of things are possible with the information before they buy. They can see if the freedom is inheritable and whether they can fork an idea, whether they can adapt and use the information freely.
 * Goal G: Free culture as an organisation has formalised. It has looked at the creative commons 501 model and has thought through issues about restrictions on lobbying and has either found a new way or has developed a partner project/entity with CC which is an active lobby for change entity so that Free Culture and Creative commons are not entities scoped by the ever more bendy DMCA.
 * Goal H: People like my mum are able to tell me that they didnt buy something because it had a restrictive licence.
 * Goal I: New thinking around international treaties and access to knowledge mean that the ratchett model for information and ideas is not appropriate and a new model is developed which is not a conceptual colonialism but is in the global best interest.
 * Goal J: Environmental restoration is more effective now that we can all see what best practice is in different habitats.
 * Goal K: Social justice is more effective now people can openly participate in ideas and information.
 * Goal L: Fair Trade is a method whereby people buy things because of an ethic. I think we need to reclaim the word Free Trade (its certainly not used to any appropriate effect atm) and use it to mean trade which generates and supports freedom of communities, not just one person right of way stuff. I buy a book which I can download freely because I get both the book and the right to participate. This like fair trade is a bigger picture way of thinking about what I am buying.

Narrative
These are the facets of things which feel like they need to be given some free culture love and care. We need to be brave and step out of the models that suited broadcast media and to build new ways of thinking, talking about and investing in ideas and information. I am a small cog but happy to help if there are other interested in these kinds of ideas. Lucychili 06:29, 29 May 2007 (JST)