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FOSS Open Content Primer
This primer provides a broad overview of the Open Content paradigm and related resources
In the move towards an information era, the question of systems
designs becomes a critical one. The dominant model of treating
information as property through Intellectual Property regimes such as
patent and copyright has proved to be detrimental to a number of
developing countries. It is now recognised the a very stringent
copyright regime threatens free speech, creativity and access. The Open
Content Movement, (inspired by the free software movement) has slowly
gained momentum as a serious alternative to the exclusionary world of
copyright. This primer looks into Open Content is a model of that
offers a different ethic of production and distribution, and as an
important model through which knowledge and information can be
democratized, especially, but not limited to developing
countries.
