Free culture in Serbia, Nevenka Antić
Festival of Creativity and Free Culture 2006 Slovenia
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Drugi slovenački festival Sobodne kulture i stvaralaštva (Drugi festival ustvrjalnosti in svobodne kulture) je održan početkom decembra 2006. u Kiberpipi u Ljubljani. Na njemu je predstavljen izbor iz prošlogodišnje produkcije radova objavljenih pod licencom Creative Commons. Festival je bio platforma za sve autore, producente, kustose, aktiviste i druge koji podržavaju ideju slobodne kulture. Festival prati publikacija tekstova i dela učesnika. Celokupan sadražaj ovoga zbornika objavljenog pod CC licencom možete pronaći kao pdf format na linku: http://creativecommons.si/bralnik2.pdf
U novom broju Kakogod prenosi tekst Nevenke Antić “Free Culture in Serbia – Progression into Progress”, objavljen na engleskom jeziku u publikaciji Bralnik2.
Nevenka Antić
Free culture in serbia – progression into progress
ABSTRACT: The paper could be considered as a miniature analysis of the current status of the free culture issues in the country in transition by treating the connection between influences which determine the conception and phenomenon tendencies to reflect on its own identity in theory and practice or everyday life. According to the free culture paradigm, it does not support the global system of values and control. At the same time, it is limited by the logic of power through the mediations of global economy, ideology or law. Regarding the global normative order, the legal side of the issue is still in progress as well as the national jurisdiction, society and institutions in general. Moreover, the generic basis of the localization of free culture legislation is also in progress, discovering the legal position which is adequate to the open content issues. In the co-relation of facts and acts, the body of the issue could be recognized as a permanent complex of limits, freedom, changes and challenges for local, national and international processes, but also as a subject of reflection and self-reflection as well as a subject of strategy of self-organization.
In the universe of new forms of technology, media and creativity, national theory and practice were faced with a new problematic which appears as a dis-balance between the scope and intensity of individual and public needs regarding publishing, using or reusing of creative content and the lack of legal framework for the realization of these efforts. This problematic is more visible in the sphere of ideological, transitional or global, which supports monopolization and centralization of vital social functions and facts. Under these circumstances, the culture could be perceived as the central tool of power and control. The marginalized grow more marginalized, the rules are too strong, the life as such is limited. The system of the global is the system of the conflicts which strongly connects and separates at the same time. As an opposition to universal and singularity, the global is the cause of vanishing and replacement of common values and human rights, democracy and freedom, by the globalization of exchanges, the perpetual flow of money [1]. Following the rigid rules, the global builds its own laws, the rigid frame of protection. It reflects on institutional and non-institutional, external and internal life, especially on their virtual forms, relations and content. Although the virtual global options are recognized in use and used in recognizing, they are out of total control. The positive “sense” of technology lies in enhancing of community, humanity, democracy, creativity [2], making the basis of realization of values. Connecting the world in virtual reality, it becomes a part of our own experience, practice and theory. Providing a potential for positive reconstruction of social and human life [3], it is also providing a potential for legal mission and transmission.
Extension of technology as the extension of potentials in Serbia is evident in the growth of new media and Internet users, as well as open content users. The virtual space is definitely the new space for production and re-production, use and re-use, form and re-form. The creator’s potentials and needs are transformed. But, the needs of potential creators or co-authors, students, users and potential users are also transformed. They need more then traditional and rigid. The roles in the creative world are more active and more creative; the rules have to be changed. In the mirror of this practice, the unfinished national process of the constitution of civil and information society appears as the source of problems, non-transparency and limitations. The institutional life does not participate in real life by supporting, dealing and creating. The common as a non-governmental is not recognized as the common, the public is not public. The interaction is a privilege, the archives are closed. With profit-oriented global influences and self-constructed obsessions, the institutions are not extended into service of citizens and nongovernmental initiatives including the understanding of needs or financial aid. Life is centralized. The lack of decentralization is the reason of marginalization. The life out of cultural/political centre is the life in shadow. The mission of transition to civil or global becomes a great challenge for authority, philosophy or law. Worldwide network as a network of all networks, new space that is used as cyberspace and new forms of creativity as open content issues are some of causes of crucial contemporary changes. The practice was fast, and especially in this sphere, it was faster than law. It has adopted the non-adopted by the use of free standards from other jurisdictions. Moreover, the issue is becoming the standpoint of thinking and re-thinking, criticism and pre-criticism, reflection and self-reflection, actualization and interpretation.
The actualization of new culture concept in Serbia is in the function of the realization of freedom in worldwide cultural network, relating to the free creativity, free legal tools and free circulation. The manifestations of actualization could be considered as a free culture self-organization practice, or open network of the open content artistic, theoretical and practical alternatives, as much as the current process of the free standards legalization. Living on the same side of values, the manifestations are in permanent interaction.
The position of the Creative Commons localization project goal is in the opposition of the rigid limits of reality, such is local or national isolation of contemporary worldwide practice in sharing and improving. Moreover, it delimits the limits of media and law in creative presentation, production and circulation. It is also discovering secrets on its way, which are the opposite of the real needs of the contemporary world. At the same time, it is oriented on humanity, creativity, cooperation, education, values and the flow of information. This type of projection refers on its own essence, which is open inside and outside. Inside itself, it produces new questions, answers, alternatives. Outside, it is open for new initiatives. Influenced by the in/out facts, the network is in permanent trans/formation.
Another aspect of the issue is its legal (re)position in the normative world. Living between rigid and flexible, profit and humanity, the law corresponds with the open content practice by translation and legal adaptation of free standards. The very being of the free standards is in becoming free in official national legal identification, which will provide freedom in production, co-production and reproduction. It will also support a circulation out of media(tor) control. In the new dimension, the legalization of the free will change the primacy of the notion of free content.
Continuum of creativity and knowledge will be transformed from inaccessible to accessible, from fact to act. New perspective of creation could be found in potential education, as much as new expression of education could be found in potential creation. The interaction between creators/educators and (re)users will be perceived. Moreover, the free standard legislation will improve the interaction of governmental or non-governmental archive/database producers with related bodies, institutions, groups or individuals. Free standards/licenses or contracts are legal entities with transparent and flexible range of accessibility, sharing and protection.
At this moment, the legal (re)construction is in proceeding as the proceeding of proceeding. The legal model of translation and adaptation is in transformation, influenced by practice, needs and rigor global legislation. The construction is in reconstruction. The form is in reform. The changes are real. The free standards legislation depends on other types of non-free standards legislation. On the other hand, free standards are not ideal instruments of law, as is implicated by the mutual dependence of practice, reflection and freedom. However, in correspondence with reality, they are so far the best realized potential or the mechanism of the protection of freedom of culture and knowledge, even in their own imperfection.
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[1] Jean Baudrillard, The Violence of the Global, www.ctheory.net, 2003, translated by Francois
Debrix, initially published as La Violence du Mondial, Power Infermo, Paris Galilee,
2002, 63-83
[2] Douglas Kellner, Adventures in Cyberspace, 1997, http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/
ed253a/newDK/borg.htm
[3] Ibid.
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28 November 2006
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