What he has done to us as the men and women we are today, we owe to small and great achievements that throughout all time, our present and past generations, have shared with us and They have left us as a legacy. This culture and this wisdom is the greatest World Heritage Site. Understand that SHARING is the basis of this, defends, liberates and perpetuates our Universal Collective Wisdom.
This symbol O represents the Free Universal Collective Knowledge and defends the absolute freedom, necessary in the development of wisdom in any of its phases.
This means that the author of the knowledge of man, can no longer be individualized or motivated by the ego, or limited to property rights. In this globalized world, connected by this great social network, which is the internet, the egoic barriers of knowledge are diluted, and with that, we are witnessing how Universal Collective Wisdom is built for the sake of a common good, for the benefit of and for Limiting this is like "building walls in the air".
Therefore, it defends full freedom in the development of Collective Wisdom, as a right of humanity and as a logical result of the development of Universal Collective Knowledge or Collective Social Intelligence, for a common good.
In order to preserve these rights, we have witnessed the creation of events such as FCForum: the Free Culture Forum, which responds to the need to create an international space, where to build and coordinate a global framework for action and a common agenda for issues related to free culture and access to knowledge. This 2011, the FCForum was held together with the fourth edition of the oXcars, which is the biggest free culture event of all time:
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http://www.2011.fcforum.net/
We have also seen, as against the Second Final Provision, of the Draft Law on Sustainable Economy proposed by the Government of Spain last 2009, the need to write the following manifesto was born:
Manifesto «In defense of fundamental rights on the Internet»
Given the inclusion in the Draft Law on the Sustainable Economy of legislative modifications that affect the free exercise of freedom of expression, information and the right of access to culture through the Internet, journalists, bloggers, users, professionals and creators of Internet we express our firm opposition to the project, and declare that ...
1.- Copyright cannot be placed above the fundamental rights of citizens, such as the right to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.
2.- The suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain the exclusive competence of the judiciary. Not a closing without sentence. This draft, contrary to what is established in article 20.5 of the Constitution, puts in the hands of a non-judicial body - an agency under the Ministry of Culture - the power to prevent Spanish citizens from accessing any web page.
3.- The new legislation will create legal insecurity throughout the Spanish technological sector, damaging one of the few fields of development and future of our economy, hindering the creation of companies, introducing obstacles to free competition and slowing down its international projection.
4.- The proposed new legislation threatens new creators and hinders cultural creation. With the Internet and the successive technological advances, the creation and broadcasting of content of all kinds, which no longer come predominantly from traditional cultural industries, but from a multitude of different sources has been democratized extraordinarily.
5.- Authors, like all workers, have the right to live from their work with new creative ideas, business models and activities associated with their creations. Trying to maintain an obsolete industry with legislative changes that cannot adapt to this new environment is neither fair nor realistic. If your business model was based on the control of copies of the works and the Internet is not possible without violating fundamental rights, they should look for another model.
6.- We believe that cultural industries need to survive modern, effective, credible and affordable alternatives and that they adapt to new social uses, instead of limitations as disproportionate as ineffective for the purpose they claim to pursue.
7.- The Internet must operate freely and without political interference sponsored by sectors that seek to perpetuate obsolete business models and make it impossible for human knowledge to remain free.
8.- We demand that the Government guarantee by law the neutrality of the Network in Spain, in the event of any pressure that may occur, as a framework for the development of a sustainable and realistic economy for the future.
9.- We propose a true reform of the intellectual property right oriented to its purpose: to give back to society the knowledge, promote the public domain and limit the abuses of the managing entities.
10.- In democracy the laws and their modifications must be approved after the appropriate public debate and having previously consulted all the parties involved. It is not acceptable to make legislative changes that affect fundamental rights in a non-organic law and that deals with other matters.
This manifesto, elaborated jointly by several authors, belongs to all and none. If you want to join it, spread it online:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifiesto_%C2%ABEn_defensa_de_los_derechos_fundamentales_en_internet%C2%BB
Also, you can freely use the “O” Symbol of Universal Free Collective Knowledge, it is a gift created from freedom, for the freedom of knowledge development, and …
You can download it here:
http://simbololibreconocimientocolectivouniv.blogspot.com/2011/11/o-simbolo-del-libre-conocimiento.html
Finally, if you are a creator and want to edit your own document, under a Creative Commons license, which is an international project that aims to strengthen creators so that they are the ones who define the terms in which their works can be used, what rights they want to deliver and under what conditions they will. I recommend you visit http://creativecommons.org/
Everything is for free culture!
Núria Castro
