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Re: [ox] Copyleft vs. Public Domain - ein Beitrag zur peer2peer-Debatte



Hallo allerseits!

Stefan Matteikat wrote:
das Wissen ist mein *besitz* und zugleich allgemein verfügbar.

Danke für den Hinweis, bei der Verwendung der Begriffe "Eigentum" und
"Besitz"  ist auch die deutsche Version des PicoPeeringAgreements sehr
nachlässig - ganz im Gegensatz zu Armin Medosch, der den Sachverhalt
(und hier geht es nicht mehr um Wissen, sondern um materielle Güter!) in
"Freie Netze" wie folgt beschreibt:

"Die physisch-materielle Infrastruktur freier Netze befindet sich im 
Besitz der Nutzer. Aus den Rechten, die in der bürgerlichen
Gesellschaft mit dem Besitz verbunden sind, leiten sie die Freiheit
ab, anderen Teile dieser Kommunikationskapazität frei zur Verfügung
zu stellen."

Bei Eben Moglen liest sich das so:
<zitat>
Digital technology transforms the bourgeois economy. The dominant goods
in the system of production - the articles of cultural consumption that
are both commodities sold and instructions to the worker on what and how
to buy - along with all other forms of culture and knowledge now have
zero marginal cost. Anyone and everyone may have the benefit of all
works of culture: music, art, literature, technical information,
science, and every other form of knowledge. Barriers of social
inequality and geographic isolation dissolve. In place of the old local
and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse
in every direction, universal inter-dependence of people. And as in
material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations
of individual people become common property. Modern bourgeois society
with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society
that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange,
is like the sorcerer's apprentice, who is no longer able to control the
powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
...
Throughout the digital society the classes of knowledge workers -
artists, musicians, writers, students, technologists and others trying
to gain in their conditions of life by copying and modifying information
- are radicalized by the conflict between what they know is possible and
what the ideology of the bourgeois compels them to accept.  Out of that
discordance arises the consciousness of a new class, and with its rise
to self-consciousness the fall of ownership begins.
...
Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to
itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those
weapons - the digital working class - the creators.  Possessed of skills
and knowledges that create both social and exchange value, resisting
reduction to the status of commodity, capable collectively of producing
all the technologies of freedom, such workmen cannot be reduced to
appendages of the machine.
...
As, in the new digital society, creators establish genuinely free forms
of economic activity, the dogma of bourgeois property comes into active
conflict with the dogma of bourgeois freedom.  Protecting the ownership
of ideas requires the suppression of free technology, which means the
suppression of free speech.  The power of the State is employed to
prohibit free creation.  Scientists, artists, engineers and students are
prevented from creating or sharing knowledge, on the ground that their
ideas imperil the owners' property in the system of cultural production
and distribution.  It is in the courts of the owners that the creators
find their class identity most clearly, and it is there, accordingly,
that the conflict begins.
</zitat>

Besonders den Gedanken "the dogma of bourgeois property comes into
active conflict with the dogma of bourgeois freedom" finde ich extrem
spannend. Der kommt auch in Stefans Antwort zum Tragen.

Viele Grüße, HGG

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