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Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas
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En el presente trabajo se parte de que la innovación requiere transmisión de información. En la actualidad, el contenido de la transmisión de información se halla sometido a una regulación legal, habitualmente la propiedad intelectual, donde los agentes intervinientes y su requisito de sistema de permisos dificultan la transmisión libre. Para solucionar esta problemática, se están promoviendo dos tipos de soluciones: el primero mediante código legal y el segundo mediante código informático. Estas soluciones, que se fundamentan en razones morales, tienen consecuencias políticas y determinan el modelo de sociedad que podemos construir mediante el conocimiento transmitido.
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The paper argues that innovation depends on information transmission, but intellectual property's per-use permission system obstructs free transmission, prompting legal (free licences, Open Definition) and technological (free software, p2p) responses. These responses rest on moral reasons and carry political consequences, making free knowledge a structural element of democracy rather than merely an IP question.
Key findings
- IP regulation prohibits any use of a protected work unless the user obtains the holder's permission, falls within a legal limit, or the work is in the public domain; rights holders have litigated in Spain against every element of Shannon's (1948) communication model — emitters/receivers (p2p users), coders/decoders (modchips), message (SGAE and CEDRO claims, including against two universities), channel (private-copying levy declared illegal by the CJEU on 21 October 2010), and noise (flooding p2p networks with junk files).
- Common features of these suits are asymmetry between transnational companies and individuals and asymmetry of procedural rules: reversal of the burden of proof and a presumption that collecting societies represent all rights holders, described in one ruling as a "monopolio probatorio" in favour of SGAE (sentencia nº 166/2008, Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº 7 de Madrid).
- Market concentration is cited as evidence: about 600 holders (1.7% of beneficiaries) concentrate 75% of what SGAE distributes (CNC, 2009, 26-27).
- Proposed solutions are grouped as legal (standardised free licences — GPL, BSD, Creative Commons — and the Open Definition initiative) and technological (free software, p2p networks, Openvpn, Opendns, Guifi.net, GPG, DeCSS), with hackers acting as "legisladores negativos."
- Morally and politically, the paper invokes Moglen's question about why it is moral to exclude anyone from goods that can be provided at the cost of the first copy, and argues that loss of information quality affects three substrates of democratic society: fundamental rights (some with an informational core, others not), the ordering of collective debate, and the fixing of democratic order — summarised in Ferrajoli's triad of money, information and politics.
Methods
- Conceptual and legal-theoretical essay, not an empirical study; it analyses Spanish and EU intellectual property law, case law and official reports (CNC 2009, AEVAL 2008).
- Uses Shannon's (1948) mathematical model of communication explicitly as a descriptive tool to order apparently isolated lawsuits, not as a validated model (the author states he is not defending its validity).
- Draws on political philosophy and legal theory (Ferrajoli, Bermudo, Echeverría, Greppi, Nussbaum, Smiers, Lessig, Benkler) to derive moral and political implications.
Limitations
- The paper states no explicit limitations section. Evident from the text: it is a normative/conceptual argument without empirical measurement of innovation effects, relying on illustrative litigation examples rather than systematic data.
- The litigation evidence is drawn mainly from the Spanish jurisdiction, although the author notes the model reproduces to a greater or lesser degree in multiple jurisdictions.
- The Shannon model is used descriptively and its validity is expressly not defended, so the mapping of lawsuits onto its seven elements is an organising device rather than a tested framework.
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“La industria ha ejercitado la acusación penal contra los usuarios de las redes de transmisión de archivos entre pares, redes p2p”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 2. Dificultades para el desarrollo del conocimiento libre
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“encontramos que la industria del entretenimiento y algunas entidades de gestión han litigado en España contra todos y cada uno de los eslabones de la cadena de comunicación.”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 2. Dificultades para el desarrollo del conocimiento libre
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“la acusación penal de la industria se ha ejercitado tanto contra los usuarios como los establecimientos que venden modchips”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 2. Dificultades para el desarrollo del conocimiento libre
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“La Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) interpone habitualmente procedimientos de reclamación de cantidad contra los establecimientos con independencia de que se utilice el repertorio cuya gestión tiene encomendada”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 2. Dificultades para el desarrollo del conocimiento libre
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“Para mantener los precios, los titulares de los derechos han desarrollado una serie de estrategias”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 2. Dificultades para el desarrollo del conocimiento libre
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§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 4. Cuestiones morales y políticas
“Para una introducción a la teoría de las élites, vid.Morán (1994).”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > References
“Morán, M. L. (1993). «La teoría de las élites»”
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§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > 2. Dificultades para el desarrollo del conocimiento libre
“(Bessen y Meurer, 2008;Vaikhari, 2008;McCurdy, 2009;Bessen, Meurer y Ford, 2011;Tucker, 2011)”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > References
“Bessen, J. y Ford, J. L. (2011). «The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls».”
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§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > References
“Bercovitz, R. (2007a). Comentario al artículo 10.1 del TRLPI, en Bercovitz, R. (coor- dinador), Comentarios a la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. 3ª ed., pp. 151-164.”
§ Innovación y conocimiento libre: cuestiones morales y políticas Innovation and open knowledge: moral and political issues > References
“Bercovitz, R. (2007b). Comentario al artículo 13 del TRLPI, en Bercovitz, R. (coor- dinador), Comentarios a la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual. 3ª ed., pp. 151-164.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- De La Cueva González-Cotera, J.
- Venue
- Isegoría
- Publisher
- Editorial CSIC
- Published
- 2013-06-30
- Issue
- 48
- Pages
- 51-74
- ISSN
- 1130-2097 (ISSN-L)
- 1988-8376
- OpenAlex
- W2321350606
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 7.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- es
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Isegoría (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- E-LIS Repository (University of Naples Federico II) (acceptedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Intellectual Property Rights and Media
- Social Sciences › Law › Intellectual Property Law
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Intellectual Property and Patents
- Keywords
- innovation, free knowledge, intellectual property, information transmission, moral argument, legal codes, software licensing, open access, information policy
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