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N.b. description of Swartz case is inaccurate; Swartz did not have valid MIT credentials.
Report from Wikimania 2024 on where "open" stands.
"Caring and actively devising ways to protect people from misuse of the imagery that portrays them, their families and their children may become important for the future uptake of open licensing. If people start associating open licensing with a gateway to an abuse of their rights and a tool aiding an oppressive system of control, they won’t use it. They may also object to others using it when it involves them as photo subjects."
Corporations’ wealth is increasingly built on intangible intellectual property (IP) rights rather than hard assets. What if we could hack these legal and economic codes that underpin capitalism so that they are based on human rights, worker solidarity, ecological sustainability and community wealth building?
Though researchers are increasingly sharing the data underlying their research, the openness of these data is often still unintentionally impaired by unnecessary application of a ‘non-commercial’ (NC) condition, such as the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC licence.