If copyright won’t work, try copyleft

If copyright does not work, try copyleft! This is the theme of a meeting here this month on which the corporate world, social activists and government officials would wrack their brains.

Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on the distribution of copies and modified versions of a work for others. It requires the same freedom to be preserved in modified versions.

Titled ‘Owning the Future: Ideas and their role in the digital age’, this symposium is being jointly organised by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and open source software corporation Red Hat, on Aug 24-25.

This ‘invitee only’ event is expected to bring in some 150 technologists, policymakers, legal experts and leaders from the free software and open source communities ‘to examine whether our current policies on copyrights, patents and the like promote or hinder innovation’.

The meet ‘will seek to examine the notion of intellectual property, the emerging philosophy of ‘copyleft’, and ‘free and open source software'’, said Red Hat India’s Mumbai-based head for open source affairs, Venkatesh Hariharan.

Tags: copyright, copyleft, IIT Delhi, Redhat, open source software

Growing surreptitiously via cyberspace and the Internet, copyleft has been applied to fields like software, documents, music and art. In some cases, the application has been immensely successful, as in the case of computing.

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