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| Note: The end of copyright and 65 free media journals |
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| Written by Mark Weinberg |
| Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:21 |
![]() The slogan of the Trade Union Library in Cape Town is “Knowledge is too important to be left in the hands of the bosses”. This is too true. We live in a time when increasing knowledge is being liberated from the shackles of the physical library (on-line) as well as from the constraints of private ownership and control (copyright). Check out this remarkable listing of hundreds of open access journals: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=expand Of course the breakdown of private ownership of intellectual property raises questions of how the production of knowledge will be funded. How will musicians, authors, intellectuals, and artists pay their bills? Music is liberated from the profiteering music company executives (see this infographic) - but how will the musicians survive? There is a precedent in history: University academics and public broadcasters are funded by the state because social consensus demands that the production of some knowledge is too important to be left to the free market. Piracy and 'creative commons' licensing can liberate products, but how will we support the livlihoods of the producers?
See 65 media related journals here. As they say at Chimurenga: Who no know go know! |
| Last Updated on Friday, 18 September 2009 00:42 |





