The librist movement promotes the creation of immaterial commons and fights
against intellectual property supported by capitalists. In order to facilitatefree creation and support authors, the free licenses of the Creative Commonsproject have emerged. Because a libertarian society is a society of commons,librism contributes to it. ---- In the same way that we fight against privateproperty and for the commons, movements fight against intellectual property andfor the immaterial commons. ---- The immaterial has the advantage that newobjects can be created, practically ex nihilo, and librism is the movement thatseeks to create immaterial commons.The main tool of fight of the librists are the free licenses. They rely onauthor's rights and copyright to reverse their logic and guarantee enormousrights and freedoms to users of the works distributed under these licenses,making it possible to detach, to a certain degree, the creation of the author orauthor, by making commons in practice.Born in the IT world, librism has been very successful there and has enabled wagestruggles, such as the authors and authors of Open¬Office who in 2010 left theiremployer to create their own structure, continuing their work as LibreOffice.Freedom and flexibility as the basis for successIt quickly spread to other areas, with another notable success being Wikipediawhich, with its free access, donation funding and open development, hassupplanted traditional encyclopedias in quantity, quality and variety of articlesonly in the number of languages available.Wikipedia thus uses a Creative Commons-type license, intended mainly for artisticworks, and which offers four clauses that the author can choose whether or not toapply to his work. The obligation to quote his name is one of them, but there isalso a clause prohibiting any modification, and another prohibiting anycommercial use. A Creative Commons license that includes these last two clausesis not considered free according to the classic definition of a free license.We can hope that in a socialist society the notion of intellectual property wouldno longer have any meaning, only the relationship of a work could still berelevant, and creators would not have to use the restrictive and precarioussystem that is the copyright to hope to survive.The maintenance and development of intangible commons is one of the mainchallenges of librism. They require a significant amount of work and mental loadthat is difficult to provide on the little free time torn from the exploiters,and many people end up stopping to maintain the commons if it is not possible forthem to do so. live from it. And that's not to mention the financing of theinfrastructure necessary for the commons to run.Free or hidden work, exploitation of the immaterial commons by capitalists oreven the ecological impact of digital technology, many challenges await thefreedom movement which, while it is phagocytosed by the libertarian movement ofopen source, must reinvent itself more than ever. and confronting new modes ofstruggle, such as so-called coopyleft or even anti-capitalist licenses.Adrian (UCL Montpellier)https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Licences-libres-Faciliter-la-creation-de-communs-immateriels_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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