Does Information Really Want to be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness
Does Information Really Want to be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness
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信息真的想要免费吗？
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2012
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Kimberly Christen
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Kimberly Christen
大约20年前，“信息想要自由”的迷因诞生于自由和开放源码软件开发社区。在接下来的几十年里，信息自由与关于开放获取、数字权利管理和知识产权的辩论融为一体。最近，随着数字遗产成为一种公共资源，学者、活动家、技术专家和当地来源社区对信息自由的程度提出了批评。这篇文章通过仔细研究模因的历史及其文化和法律基础，将与土著知识有关的收集历史和信息流通的政治注入到这场辩论中。这种方法让我们能够解开迷因的标准化假设，并衡量它是否适用于广泛的材料和文化差异。
The “information wants to be free” meme was born some 20 years ago from the free and open source software development community. In the ensuing decades, information freedom has merged with debates over open access, digital rights management, and intellectual property rights. More recently, as digital heritage has become a common resource, scholars, activists, technologists, and local source communities have generated critiques about the extent of information freedom. This article injects both the histories of collecting and the politics of information circulation in relation to indigenous knowledge into this debate by looking closely at the history of the meme and its cultural and legal underpinnings. This approach allows us to unpack the meme’s normalized assumptions and gauge whether it is applicable across a broad range of materials and cultural variances.