Salvador Alcántar Morán: Mexican Copyright Unfit-for-purpose in the Digital age, the Public Domain, and the Need for a True Multistakeholder
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Salvador Alcántar Morán: Mexican Copyright Unfit-for-purpose in the Digital age, the Public Domain, and the Need for a True Multistakeholder
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Salvador Alcántar Morán is a lawyer, focused on digital copyright, educational technology and digital communications. He is the co-founder of Wikimedia Mexico and of Creative Commons Mexico. He was also...
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0:00 Intro
2:15 Salvador talks about how copyright is locking up culture, especially in South America, and highlights the strong influence of the entertainment industry in shaping copyright laws
7:36 Salvador shares the most important lessons that he learned representing Creative Commons Mexico, including the lack of a multistakeholder perspective in the creation of copyright laws and the ignorance of the Internet by policymakers
13:14 Salvador explains how the copyright industry's campaigns induced copyright anxiety among Mexicans when sharing content online
19:12 Salvador talks about the public domain, its importance, and how Mexico fails when it comes to protecting and feeding it by having the lengthiest copyright term (100 years after the author's death)
25:24 Salvador reflects on a particular moment that he experienced and where he felt that he hit a wall and that something was wrong, and which sparked his interested in copyright reform and activism
32:22 Salvador shares what he feels need to change and needs to be done to make it work in the online world and how all this should look like in 2030: calling for the need for 'public hearings' on how copyright legislation is shaped, not only in Mexico but across the world
38:58 Salvador closes off by emphasising the need for a global perspective on copyright. and the need for people to join forces to counter attempts to push through problematic copyright legislation
Shows Mentioned:
http://www.amazon.com/
Public Domain
https://iclg.com/practice-areas/copyright-laws-and-regulations/mexico
Guests Social Media Links:
Website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvadoralcantarmoran/?locale=en_US
Twitter: https://twitter.com/salvador_alc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/salvador.alcantar
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