Social-informational practices, free culture and public domain: Pirates, anarquists or a make public state?.

Author(s)

Andre Pequeno dos Santos

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-08-08

Examining board members

Marco Antonio de Almeida; Giulia Crippa; Jose Eduardo Santarem Segundo

• Advisor: Marco Antonio de Almeida

Abstract

The mains objective of this paper is to discuss the issue of free culture relating it to the public domain questions. The method used is based on observation, analysis and synthesis of data related to the proposed themes, enabling a discussion based on exploratory and explanatory bibliographical study of the various issues addressed in the research culminating in the issue of this free culture and the notion of public domain.In turn, it is through the study and analysis of objects that make up the research as, for example, the role of the internet, \"piracy\", copyright law, the evolution of media and dissemination of knowledge, cooperative and independent cultural activitiesmade by the users and the large network of cultural policies in the digital environment. Some interesting activities in many cultural fields are discussed and described such as in libraries (Digital Public Library of America - DPLA), historic archives (Europeana 1914-1918), music devices and communities (Jamendo), comics and video gamesFrom the analysis and study of the concept and practice of free culture established primarily in the public domain and social piracy, we conclude that such questions are fundamental in development of activities and relationships established in the collaborative environment of the internet, which identify users as producers and disseminators of a living cultural cycle paths intertwined by the large network.Thus, it reinforces the potential of cultural policies from the digital environment that strengthen the ideal of free culture from issues such as the revision of copyright law, encouraging the public domain and even on new understandings of cooperative and social universe of social piracy. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/12899-5 - Open Access and cultural and information policies: Understanding the issue of free access to technical-scientific and cultural information
• Grantee: André Pequeno dos Santos
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master