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+title: Notes from Doctorow, September 2020
+author: Gustav Eek
+date: 12 dec 2020
+---
+
+As preparation for Christmas party. Listen to Cory Doctorow, 'We used
+to have cake, now all that's left is icing', Stanford Online,
+September 2020.
+
+
+ * EFF, [Cory Doctorow at the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction
+   Seminar](https://www.eff.org/event/cory-doctorow-stanford-human-computer-interaction-seminar),
+   September 2020. A free public talk by EFF Special Advisor Cory
+   Doctorow for Stanford's Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Watch
+   it here.
+
+ * [The talk](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMyupDF2O00r19JsmolyXdD)
+
+01:00
+
+Free software licences, Stallman, etc. 1983.
+
+03:00
+
+Open source as alternative, 1988,
+
+Free software born before software patents and api patents.
+
+05:00
+
+Cake and icing world in the 80:es.
+
+Applying GPL on the source code was the icing on top of the generally
+spread software freedom which was the cake.
+
+(*listen again to get it right*)
+
+07:00
+
+Now world is a different place. Any attempt to iteract with existing
+software is effective
+
+08:00
+
+Interoperability thanks to standardisation. Benefits. In physical
+societies.
+
+12:00
+
+Ease of entering, hard to leave → By Facebook, interoperability is
+utilised to make entrance easy.
+
+14:00
+
+Leaving Facebook is possible, but not easy.
+
+"Leaving Facebook in the 21'st century is like leaving Sovjet for US in
+the 40'es. You can go, sure, but your friends and your loved ones are
+all held hostage behind Zuclebergs iron curtains."
+
+16:00
+
+Couple interoperability with democracy.
+
+18:00
+
+"Intellectual property" is a recent concept for grouping (a)
+copyright, (b) patents, and (c) trademarks. Historically referred to
+separately or by "author's monopoly".
+
+Critique on patents.  Trademarks are not property at all.  Now "IP"
+means any way for companies to control others, employees, customers,
+etc. "A way to control the customers to force customers to arrange
+their affairs to benefit the manufacturer." A way to transfer risk and
+uncertenity from the manufacturer side of the balance sheet to the
+customer side.
+
+DRM
+
+"Conjure up a doctuorum we can call felony controlled business models".
+
+Goldman Sacks copyright protect their logo font with the purpose of
+controlling criticism.
+
+26:00
+
+How "author's monopoly" became "intellectual property".
+
+b29:00
+
+Authors' monopolies accumulates to market power monopolies.
+Monopolies in culture sector, entertainment monopolies, from movie
+theatres to book sellers.
+
+33:20
+
+Software is eating the world, or has already eaten the world.
+
+There is no software freedom there is only freedom. Software rights
+had become human rights.
+
+The combination of software and IP in basically every device.
+
+35:10
+
+Level of control beyond the wildest dreams of the history's most
+sociopathic monopolists
+
+Compare coal bosses controlling workers. Noninteroperable
+mony. Software enforcing system
+
+36:20
+
+Ending
+
+"Once we had cake, today we have icing, and the icing is disappearing
+fast. There are no digital rights, only human rights, and today there
+is no software freedom, there is only freedom."
+
+36:45