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Manifesto for a free Greek broadcasting archive

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/01/call-for-oa-to-greek-public.html

Greek activists are working for OA to the archive of the Greek Public Broadcasting Company (ERT). […] Here’s an English draft of a manifesto to accompany a future petition:

Greek citizens, but also citizens of other countries, we jointly sign this text on the occasion of ERT’s choice to distribute its audiovisual archive non-freely to the public. Our aim and ambition is to publicize our propositions so that they become the starting point of an open dialog among the Greek society, the European and global public audience and to signal the revision of backward policies and the creation of common political wealth….

If today, you store in your computer, or send to a friend, or allow your children to make a creative montage for their homework in the history course, using material based on this archive, you will have committed a list of offences regarding the protection of ‘’intellectual property’’….

If a large number of people, including you, have paid with your own money for the production of a television or radio show, you surely have your say for how this show should become publicly available. If it is freely available to anyone who has got an interest in it, this does not make you by no means poorer, since it does not deprive you of the possibility to enjoy the same privileges with others….

The ERT archive that was produced with the contribution of Greek citizens and today is digitized with the money of European tax payers, should become freely available to all the residents of the planet via the Internet….

Anyone should have the right to store, to copy, to modify and to redistribute this material freely without royalties or being obstructed by bureaucratic processes. The derivative products of this creative process are supposed to be freely available under the condition that these products will not become the exclusive property of anyone, but they will abide by the same legal status of free use. In this way, innovation and collective creativity are strengthened.


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (8. Januar 2008). Manifesto for a free Greek broadcasting archive. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 17. Januar 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/byux


Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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