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This interview was taken at the iSummit 08 on August 31st in Sapporo Japan. Joi talks about the importance of internet rights, the relation between the internet bill of rights initiative and the creative commons, and asks some crucial questions regarding the practical implementation of an internet rights initiative.
The following notes I have taken while reviewing the Interview (it's my understanding and misinterpretations are of course my fault):
Some rights that Joi finds particularly important in cyberspace
right to communicate
freedom to connect
right to speak without fear of retribution
competition of ideas
open society in the 21 century
interrelated architecture of the internet
data puts people on list with direct consequences - no job in public company, people can not use planes
we need to develop tools to stop human rights abuse
Creative Commons and Internet Rights communities have similar way to explain things
Creative Commons is like a user interface for copyright
Creative Commons forces you to decide what kind of use you want to allow
the internet rights movement should empower the individual by increasing literacy
you increase literacy by making it simple for the people to see what the choices are
a key challenge for the rights movements is that terms like privacy are defined and interpreted very different in different countries
hence there needs to be much more discussion on the definition of rights
so the approach should be less legal, less technical, maybe more normative
Rights movement is broader and maybe more difficult than Copyright, but it is also SUPER IMPORTANT
in fact many people think they can do everything with content once they are using a creative commons licence, but rights (e.g. the privacy rights of someone in a video) are needed and serve to complement and create the frictionless fair legal coyright network we aim for at creative commons - we really need another level of literacy to be generated
from the experience at ICANN it has become clear that much depends on the environment and frame for a conversation, and as the aim is to find a global consensus on Rights - how do you have that conversation? Where and with whom do you start?
max: become a platform for various proposals for e.g. bloggers code of conduct which then (once a rough consensus on different solutions has emerged) can be translated into human readable icons that then allow users to see very quickly what Rights are upheld and how in a particular environment
finding consensus on rights and making sure the definition stays current should be conceotualized as evolustionary process
cyberspace is and shoudl be one unified/universal space
the big challenge will be to translate rights into all the legal systems
