Anti-copyright refers to the opposition to copyright laws. Critics of copyright include infoanarchists, anticopyright, copyfight and copyleft groups, and organizations such as Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Like John says copyright law in the UK is u make something and its copyrighted but in america u must make a patent haaaa ... Infoanarchism has been used as an umbrella term for various groups of people who are opposed to forms of so-called intellectual property, including copyright and patents. ... The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ... Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ... EFF Logo The EFF uses the blue ribbon as symbolism for their Free Speech defense. ...

"Anti-copyright" is also a phrase without legal meaning which may be placed in anti-copyright statements that are added to works in order to encourage wider distribution.

Arguments against copyright

The classic argument for personal copyright is to grant developers property rights to encourage further development work by giving the developer a source of income. Those against copyright suggest that income to a developer must be generated by ancillary means, for different reasons: Like John says copyright law in the UK is u make something and its copyrighted but in america u must make a patent haaaa ...

• Making the developer dependent on a system that requires enforcement directly ties them to large corporate entities which are able to carry out this enforcement, but may at the same time limit creative output to that which is compatible with corporate/capitalist ideology.
• Copyright was intended as, and until recently has been used mostly for, a regulation on commercial and for-profit use of creative works. While technically most copyright laws applied to individuals making copies, it was only the advent of the personal computer that made it possible for individuals to copy significant amounts of information. Many argue that this new ability calls for a fundamental change to, or the abolition of copyright.
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is often harmful to consumers by restricting what may be done with legally-purchased content,
• Enforcement mechanisms such as digital rights management endanger existing consumer rights like fair use, and can be used to further tie creators to the corporate entities that control this technology since even a use which may be legally considered fair use may be hampered or rendered impossible by the technological restrictions. "Trusted computing" platforms may refuse to play, display or execute content that is not properly "certified" by central authorities.
• Little known creators depend on distribution to become popular -- for them, copyright limits their potential outreach, and donations may be a better option. Well known creators can always ask for money from their fans upfront (Street Performer Protocol).
• Article 8 of the Berne Convention may have a chilling effect on freedom of speech and may force an overseas audience to learn the language that the medium in the question is published in, and can cause a foreign company to act against its overseas audience. International copyright law is regarded as controversial by the video game, anime, and manga communities in the United States and Europe, such as Fan translation, Scanlation, and Fansub.
• Historically, copyright originated only in the last few centuries. Creativity flourished well before copyright existed.
• The European Renaissance saw a burgeoning of intellectual talent, the like of which has not been seen since. It occurred before the existence of copyrights, and was spurred by artists copying each other's techniques and works without legal restriction. The argument that copyright law protects and encourages development is seen by many as hype intended to provide moral justification for laws which in fact are there to protect the incomes and wealth of copyright holders, many of whom are not the original developers anyway. The ease and convenience of being able to obtain and preserve many intellectual works across the Internet, it is argued, will lead to greater development if copyright law is abolished. Whilst it may not be possible for popular artists and their agents to make as much money in this scenario, it is likely that popular artists will still be able to make a living by means of advertising and product promotion, as they do at present or perhaps by busking, if that is the only option open to them.
• While some are in favor of limited copyright terms, copyrights in many countries last for periods longer than a human lifetime. Even if a limited copyright period still offered a beneficial result, these long copyright terms hold content back far longer than necessary.
• Many argue that copyright is inherently contrary to the ideals of free speech and expression which are valued highly by free societies.
• Some companies abuse copyright privileges by suing or threatening to sue those who clearly are within their rights under fair use, but who cannot afford to defend themselves in court.
• Information is not conducive to the same treatment as real property, due to its status as a nonrival good.
• Frequently, content creators do not hold their own copyrights, instead relinquishing them to publishers, producers, and the like, through contractual arrangements.
• An economy operating under intellectual property rules is not Pareto efficient, and hence said to be less prosperous than an unrestricted economy, if it is presumed that copyright is a hindrance rather than a help to innovation.
• Socialist anarchists believe ideas and knowledge should not be owned or controlled. This is perhaps best summed up in Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's slogan Property is theft!. These anarchists do not believe in the concepts of plagiarism, copyright or "theft" of other people's ideas. Libertarian socialists have customarily not prosecuted one another for copyright "violations" and usually do not provide royalties when translating or republishing each others works.
• Copyrights are selfish; they place the good of the one (the creator) over the good of the many (the audience). Instead of allowing a work to be improved and redistributed by those who may be more qualified than the original author, works are restricted in the name of monetary profit. For example, a commercially sold Encyclopedia's content cannot be updated or redistributed by the readers, while Wikipedia's content can be shared with and updated by all people.

Abolition is the act of formally destroying something through legal means, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form. ... Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. ... Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. ... Trusted Computing Group, the creators of trusted computing Trusted Computing (commonly abbreviated TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). ... The Street Performer Protocol (SPP) is a way of encouraging the creation of creative works and intellectual property in the public domain, described by the cryptographers John Kelsey and Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Systems (although the underlying idea is much older). ... The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, sometimes called the Berne Union or Berne Convention, adopted at Berne in 1986, first established the recognition of copyrights between sovereign nations. ... Freedom of speech is enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is granted formal recognition by the laws of most nations. ... Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a cultural phenomenon. ... The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) Anime ) (IPA pronunciation: in Japanese, but typically or in English) is an abbreviation of the word animation. Outside Japan, the term most popularly refers to animation... 2nd English edition of InuYasha Vol. ... European redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Scanlation, sometimes referred to as scanslation, is a term used for manga which has been scanned and translated by fans from its native language (usually Japanese or Korean) to another language, commonly English, French or Spanish. ... Opening credits of School Rumble with karaoke fansub subtitles. ... Look up Creativity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ... Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ... Expression may refer to: (in the vernacular) the act or particular way of expressing something (including an emotion through a facial expression or configuration) (in mathematics) a mathematical expression (in computing) a programming language expression (in computing) a vector graphics software Microsoft Expression (in genetics) the effect produced by a... Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. ... A nonrival good in economics is one where one partys use of the good does not diminish anothers access to it or benefit from it. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... A contract is a promise or an agreement made of a set of promises. ... Pareto efficiency, or Pareto optimality, is a central concept in game theory with broad applications in economics, engineering and the social sciences. ... Libertarian socialism includes a group of political philosophies that aims to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. ... Pierre Joseph Proudhon. ... Property is theft! (French: La propriété, cest le vol!) is a slogan coined by the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right of Government. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

Anti-copyright notices

Statements for waiving copyright are legally required because, under the Berne Convention in international copyright law, works are protected even if no copyright statement is attached to them. However, "anti-copyright" statements typically do not take the form of either sophisticated open content licenses or a simple dedication to the public domain; instead, they may just encourage wide distribution. It is possible to denounce all claims to copyright in a work including moral rights in a written disclaimer. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Open content, coined by analogy with open source, (though technically it is actually share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Moral rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and first recognized in France and Germany, before they were included in the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1928. ...

A formal copyright waiver may state the following: A waiver is the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege. ...

The author of this work hereby waives all claim of copyright (economic and moral) in this work and immediately places it in the public domain; it may be used, distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution or notice to the creator.

However a casual anti-copyright notice, as often found in socialist anarchist magazines and books, may simply read:

Anti-Copyright! Reprint freely, in any manner desired, even without naming the source.

The latter is less accurate and needs to be interpreted individually as the term "anti-copyright" has no accepted legal meaning. For example, if just free distribution is encouraged, modification or lack of attribution is still illegal, making the material ineligible for collaborative writing projects like Wikipedia. In such a case anti-copyright is not a true denial of copyright, but just a reduction of the protection it affords copyright holders. Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based free content encyclopedia project. ...

See also

• copyleft
• FairShare
• Fair dealing
• Free culture
• Piratbyrån
• Copyright commandeering

The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ... FairShare is an idea for a voluntary investment-based patronage system to replace intellectual property and copyright while still insuring that artists are fairly compensated. ... Fair dealing is a doctrine of limitations and exceptions to copyright which is found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations. ... The book cover Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1. ... Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy) is a Swedish organization (or think tank) established to support the individuals fighting against current ideas about intellectual properties by sharing information and culture freely. ... Kai Puolamäki is a Finnish physicist and Internet activist. ...

External links

• The Droplift Project
• An article about an activist
• Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society - opinion by Professor Jost Smiers
• (Russian) Что это? Текст об антикопирайте, истории его и новейших приключениях, написан по просьбе официозного СМИ для ликвидации безграмотности и в качестве пропаганды. - ANTICOPYRIGHT: THE BOOK (Russian)