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Today, information is ownable. This entails a complex system of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute statutory] regulations that prohibit the transmission of information and limit our powers of free speech in order to protect the financial interests of content creators.
[[File:Kopimism.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Control-C Control-V - the eternal cycle]]


There is a fundamentally different way, hereafter referred to as Kopimism, that is at odds with today's complex and self-defeating system of intellectual property. Kopimism is simpler, more efficient, and ultimately better for everybody.
Today, information is ownable. This entails a complex/costly system of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute statutory] regulations that attempt to prohibit the transmission of information and limit our powers of free speech in order to protect the financial interests of "content owners".


Kopimism is good because it is in harmony with nature/reality. Information is intangible, inexhaustible, illuminating, and a duality of matter. As all matter wants to fall, information wants to be free. As all temples crumble, society that accepts Kopimism will prosper, while those that reject it will fall.
There is a fundamentally different way, hereafter referred to as Kopimism, that is at odds with today's complex and self-defeating system of intellectual property. Kopimism is simpler, more efficient, and arguably better for everybody in the long run.


We have an opportunity to introduce Kopimism to the mainstream by propagating this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative normative] way and understanding of Kopimism that arrises naturally from our understanding of reality. Our mission is to unite the factions for information rights and transition the United States (and consequently the world) towards a society of complete information freedom through reasoning and understanding.
Kopimism is so good because it is in harmony with (and better exploits) the natural laws of reality. Information -- a dual of matter -- is intangible, inexhaustible, and illuminating. As matter wants to fall, information wants to be free. Kopimism takes advantage of these sacred (God given) properties of reality for the benefit of humanity.
 
We have an opportunity to introduce Kopimism to the mainstream by propagating this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative normative] way and understanding of Kopimism that arrises from our understanding of reality. Our mission is to unite the factions and transition the world towards a society of complete information freedom through the transformation of our own way of being.




===== News =====
===== News =====


* Brainstorm and meet to discuss, Dec 16th 2012
* Meeting Every Sunday at 1pm at Sudo Room [These are now defunct, rescheduling]
* Let's create a static website on kopimism.org
* Creation of ritual SudoRoom group chants and prayers in possible collaboration with the Public School Poetry Group
* Let's design cards to hand out to gain members
* Question for Dec 30th: What does Kopimism have to say about evesdropping secret channels? Why?
 
 
=== Ritual Chants ===


We are in serious need of revival. We will go through all the crazy American cult movements of the 20th century, "kopimist" what we can, and regroup by fusing with the Public School Poetry group and coming up with group ritual chants and prayers.


===== General Info =====
The Experimental Music group that meets will provide us with a variety of high-pitched 2400 baud modem sounds, and we will go from there.
 
=== Kopimism Hardware ===
 
[[File:800px-Scientology e-meter.jpg|100px|thumb|left|A Scientologist e-meter]]
 
We are currently kopimistically kopying the Scientologist e-meter. We are a the first phase of iterative agile modification. The process will be a lean, mean 3d printed additive manufacturing machine. Be aware that they are litigous, so this will be an opportunity to act with agility.
 
=== General Info ===


*  '''IRC''': ##kopimism (not #kopimism)
*  '''IRC''': ##kopimism (not #kopimism)
*  '''URL''': http://kopimism.org (not up yet)
*  '''URL''': http://kopimism.org (not up yet)
*  '''Meeting''': At SudoRoom, Sunday afternoons at 1:00pm
*  '''Meeting''': At SudoRoom, Sunday afternoons at 1:00pm


===== Kopimist Credo =====
===== Kopimist Credo =====
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* California Pirate Party
* California Pirate Party
* Radio wave regulations
* Radio wave regulations
===== Copyright and Licensing =====
Kopimists can use strategies to indicate when content is published under kopimist principles, but what options are there for dealing with existing copyright and licensing schemes? Should dual-licensing be used? Or CC-0 to approximate the public domain?
===== Suggestions for Background Readings (to select from) =====
* John Perry Barlow, [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html The Economy of Ideas]
* Pam Samuelson, [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper.html The Copyright Grab]
* Yochai Benkler, [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page The Wealth of Networks]
* Madhavi Sunder, [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=897753 IP3]
* Margaret Chon, [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=894162 Intellectual Property and the Development Divide]
* James Boyle, [http://law.duke.edu/boylesite/Intprop.htm A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism For the Net?]
* Amy Kapczynski, [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1323525 The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property]
===== Other semi-topical readings =====
Especially to help produce a book, [[The Case for Kopimism]].
====== Inspiration in Form ======
* (Originally published) anonymous works of social, cultural, philosophical, and political significance
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(essay) Nature (essay)] written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers Federalist Papers] author was Publius, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet) Common Sense (pamphlet)] written by Thomas Paine.
===== Related Information Society Declarations =====
[http://irpcharter.org/wpcharter/ Internet Rights & Principles Charter]
[http://fcforum.net/charter Free Culture Forum Charter for Innovation, Creativity, & Access to Knowledge]
[http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlin_declaration.pdf Berlin Declaration on Open Access]
[http://www.cptech.org/a2k/a2k_treaty_may9.pdf A2K Treaty]
[http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/ The Cape Town Open Education Declaration]
[http://tacd.org/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=289&Itemid= Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue -- Paris Accord]
[http://www.futureofwipo.org/futureofwipodeclaration.html Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO]
[http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/449/78/PDF/N1144978.pdf UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Internet Report]
[http://digitaldueprocess.org/ Digital Due Process]
[http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html World Summit on the Information Society Tunis Agenda]




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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism
* http://www.reddit.com/r/Kopimism/ (we might want to lead the discussion on Reddit)
* http://www.reddit.com/r/Kopimism/ (we might want to lead the discussion on Reddit)
* http://craphound.com/content/download/
* http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20121209/07431921317/psy-makes-81-million-ignoring-copyright-infringements-gangnam-style.shtml (interesting reading)
* http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html (a novel related to issues of patents)
* http://kopimistsamfundet.se/english/ (Swedish Church of Kopimism)
* http://movingtofreedom.org/2006/10/06/thomas-jefferson-on-patents-and-freedom-of-ideas/ (Thomas Jefferson on patents)
* http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Sudo_room/Compact (The Sudo Room Compact)
* http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57559890-93/instagram-apologizes-to-users-we-wont-sell-your-photos/ (talking point: how would Instagram's proposed - and now retracted - right to use your photos for commercial purpose be interpreted from a Kopimist perspective?)

Latest revision as of 15:12, 18 August 2015

Control-C Control-V - the eternal cycle

Today, information is ownable. This entails a complex/costly system of statutory regulations that attempt to prohibit the transmission of information and limit our powers of free speech in order to protect the financial interests of "content owners".

There is a fundamentally different way, hereafter referred to as Kopimism, that is at odds with today's complex and self-defeating system of intellectual property. Kopimism is simpler, more efficient, and arguably better for everybody in the long run.

Kopimism is so good because it is in harmony with (and better exploits) the natural laws of reality. Information -- a dual of matter -- is intangible, inexhaustible, and illuminating. As matter wants to fall, information wants to be free. Kopimism takes advantage of these sacred (God given) properties of reality for the benefit of humanity.

We have an opportunity to introduce Kopimism to the mainstream by propagating this normative way and understanding of Kopimism that arrises from our understanding of reality. Our mission is to unite the factions and transition the world towards a society of complete information freedom through the transformation of our own way of being.


News
  • Meeting Every Sunday at 1pm at Sudo Room [These are now defunct, rescheduling]
  • Creation of ritual SudoRoom group chants and prayers in possible collaboration with the Public School Poetry Group
  • Question for Dec 30th: What does Kopimism have to say about evesdropping secret channels? Why?


Ritual Chants

We are in serious need of revival. We will go through all the crazy American cult movements of the 20th century, "kopimist" what we can, and regroup by fusing with the Public School Poetry group and coming up with group ritual chants and prayers.

The Experimental Music group that meets will provide us with a variety of high-pitched 2400 baud modem sounds, and we will go from there.

Kopimism Hardware

A Scientologist e-meter

We are currently kopimistically kopying the Scientologist e-meter. We are a the first phase of iterative agile modification. The process will be a lean, mean 3d printed additive manufacturing machine. Be aware that they are litigous, so this will be an opportunity to act with agility.

General Info

  • IRC: ##kopimism (not #kopimism)
  • URL: http://kopimism.org (not up yet)
  • Meeting: At SudoRoom, Sunday afternoons at 1:00pm
Kopimist Credo
  • I do not copyright my work nor patent my inventions, but publish them in the public domain unless I wish to keep them private
  • I encourage others to copy/modify/publish/implement my work
  • I give credit where it is due to the best of my ability
  • I demand the right to copy/modify/publish/implement any information presented to me for anyone who wants it
  • I respect the privacy of others


Discussion Points
  • Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks
  • DRM encoding/decoding
  • Ethics, or what is not allowed
  • California Pirate Party
  • Radio wave regulations
Copyright and Licensing

Kopimists can use strategies to indicate when content is published under kopimist principles, but what options are there for dealing with existing copyright and licensing schemes? Should dual-licensing be used? Or CC-0 to approximate the public domain?

Suggestions for Background Readings (to select from)
Other semi-topical readings

Especially to help produce a book, The Case for Kopimism.

Inspiration in Form
  • (Originally published) anonymous works of social, cultural, philosophical, and political significance
Related Information Society Declarations

Internet Rights & Principles Charter

Free Culture Forum Charter for Innovation, Creativity, & Access to Knowledge

Berlin Declaration on Open Access

A2K Treaty

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration

Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue -- Paris Accord

Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO

UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Internet Report

Digital Due Process

World Summit on the Information Society Tunis Agenda


Links