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found mostly among western translators asian translators mostly stick closer to the original spirit although they sometimes use restrictive licences of various forms not only are translations regarded as owned by individuals even the original texts are frequently subject to copyright claims you d think that a millenia old text would be pretty firmly in the public domain but apparently many publishers of original texts don t think so going beyond the extremely broad scope of copyright law they publish licences with their texts sometimes releasing them under various creative commons licences but you can only licence something that you own and you can t just go around claiming to own something that you don t to make such a claim is or it should be illegal since copyright law is written almost entirely to protect the interests of content providers it is not clear to what extent such a claim is fact illegal but the principle is clear enough the basic justification for copyright is that if we don t copyright things creators won t get compensation and the work will not be done this is a dubious argument in the creative industries generally since not only as we have seen is there no real evidence that copyright ensures a decent living for artists but because artists are not motivated primarily by money this is even more applicable to buddhism no one translates buddhist texts for money which is a very good thing because if you did you ll be pretty disappointed we the monastics academics institutions or private individuals who do the work of translation do it out of love there are vast quantities of translations that have been done and simply put out there with no attempt at getting recompense and even in the minority of cases where works are published commercially the translators and the many assistants who made these works possible typically don t get any income from them given this it seems to me that the best way to produce high quality translations is to make our work freely available so it can be copied adapted and improved if funding is needed for example if someone wants to take time off work to complete a translation we should rely on the buddhist culture of dana which has supported the maintaining and spreading of the texts for so long when i suggest that we shouldn t use copyright on our texts people say but how do you stop them being misused i just don t get what the problem is does anyone really think that there are hordes of malicious people waiting out there to do awful things with buddhist texts if by some remote chance someone does do something malicious with my work such as say passing it off as their own i ll contact them and ask them to stop if they don t i ll rely on the power of peer pressure i ll write about it and let people know that there s a scam afoot the perps will fade away soon enough i d never take someone to court for anything like that so why issue an empty threat to me it seems that this concern betrays a deeper misunderstanding of what copyright law is all about copyright is not something that you can claim or not claim it exists by law because you made a creative work by operating under copyright law you are saying that anyone who violates this law is a criminal and is potentially subject to very large punishments what i am suggesting is that this should not be a legal matter we should dedicate our works to the public domain via creative commons zero or similar that doesn t mean that you necessarily support and encourage anyone to do anything they like with your work it means that whatever someone does you will not treat them as a criminal if you don t like what they do contact them and ask them politely to stop if you would like to issue some guidelines for use do so you can ask people to give proper attribution or to not change anything or to not use for commercial purposes but you don t have to make a legal issue out of these things i used to go along with the norm thinking that it was the right thing to do so i published my works under restrictive creative commons licences but as i ve learned more and my understanding of copyright has improved now i don t claim anything i think if someone wants to do something with my work great alexander duncan of chroniker press took my theragatha translation and made a nice printed edition it s terrific buy one if you like markus echterhoff of dhammatime just made some modifications to my open sanskrit font itself derived from open sans cool download and use it which brings me back around to something i alluded to earlier rather than relying on copyright we should adapt the millenia old means of negotiating usage of materials based on social interactions and this is once again an area where technology has completely changed the situation creators can stay in touch with their audience to a degree that has not been possible since publishing was invented copyright law is just bad psychology the people who want your things are your fans when you invoke copyright law you are treating your fans like criminals how do you think that s going to work out the relationship between the creator and their audience is the single irreducible fact of all public creative activity you need a creator and you need an audience what you don t need is a middle man by making a faceless company the middle man you distance the creator from their audience when a fan copies a work they don t think they are harming the creator they think of it as avoiding paying the man if the natural creative relationship between artist and audience is restored there will be a greater degree of respect and mutual support this is proven by such innovations as kickstarter which shows that people are quite happy to pay for creative works especially if they feel a sense of connection with the creator what i am suggesting is that innovative models like kickstarter or its buddhist version dana io give us an example of how a new relationship between creator and audience can be forged lulu com the print on demand service is another example rather than signing over the ownership of your work to lulu you retain ownership and use whatever licence you like lulu is more like a contractor you pay them for various services basic ones like printing and distribution and optionally for things like design and marketing but they never own your work you do most people don t realize it but the internet runs on dana most of the servers that power the internet run on linux which is free and open source software it was created developed and is still maintained by people who donate their work to the public good linux doesn t just power the internet it also underlies android and a whole range of other applications from computers embedded in various devices to the world s fastest supercomputers why do you think the very best computer scientists in the world use linux for their most performance critical work because it s better obviously generosity is not just a nice idea it creates better outcomes why because people do better work when you engage their positive nature than if you assume they are selfish another innovative example is the tex typesetting program developed by donald knuth he released the software for free as quality typesetting is a public good everyone should be able to do it and he made money by putting the detailed instructions in a book the texbook which was of course typeset in tex but he went further by offering a reward for anyone who found a bug in his program in this way he not only improved his work he engaged a community of clever people who wanted to work with him there s lots of other examples to be found in all these cases people found effective ways to use a fundamental principle of buddhist psychology that people work best when they are encouraged to do good if you penalize them for doing something harmless they just get annoyed i ll finish this off with a quote from the author neil gaiman which is a summary of his keynote for the london book fair 2013 mammals spend an awful lot of energy on infants on children they spend nine months of our lives gestating and then they get two decades of attention from us because we re putting all of our attention into this one thing we want to grow dandelions on the other hand will have thousands of seeds and they let them go where they like they don t really care they will let go of 1 000 seeds and 100 of them will sprout the whole point of a digital frontier right now is that it s a frontier all the old rules are falling apart anyone who tells you they know what s coming what things will be like in 10 years time is simply lying to you none of the experts know nobody knows which is great when the rules are gone you can make up your own rules you can fail you can fail more interestingly you can try things and you can succeed in ways nobody would have thought of because you re pushing through a door marked no entrance you re walking in through it you can do all of that stuff but you just have to become a dandelion be willing for things to fail throw things out there try things and see what sticks and by the way i fixed a spelling mistake in that quote one dandelion just became a little more beautiful may 20 2015 sujato books copyright early buddhist texts scriptures 30 comments exploring meaning multi faith climate change workshop to get to the heart of the matter in an atmosphere of equality take the opportunity to explore what climate change means to us from the heart hear from faith leaders an aboriginal elder and a climate scientist to understand what it means to them prof lesley hughes donna jacobs sife frances bodkin and bhante sujato will speak to the meaning of climate change from the backgrounds of science judaism buddhism aboriginal culture we will co create the exploration of what it means to our selves to others and what diverse perspectives emerge through the journey all welcome book your free ticket here 6pm samosas bananas and winter warming beverages served thu jun 18 2015 6 30 pm 9 30 pm mitchell theatre 280 pitt street sydney nsw 2000 sydney new south wales australia may 19 2015 sujato 7 comments graeme lyall has passed on dear friends on vesak day may 3 2015 at 3 40pm graeme lyall passed away those familiar with buddhism in australia will know of graeme s unsurpssed service to buddhism in this country and internationally he was the senior buddhist in the whole country having been part of the original buddhist society of nsw from its inception in 1953 i won t give you a history of his life but will share with you some of my memories of him as a man graeme reminded me of the monkey character from the classic show his nature is irrepressible he was an august and respected figure but in the true australian spirit never let that become pomposity or conceit he laughed and joked all the time and his humor always had a point to it graeme was a man after my own heart in that he was not afraid to speak his mind if you think buddhists are often too quiet in the face of events that need to be spoken of you haven t read graeme s amazing website the domain seems to have lapsed recently and is now run by a different group but you can still see snapshots on the internet archive here s the most recent http web archive org web 20141216234234 http buddhismaustralia org i met him for the last time a few months ago and as always he was in fine spirits and speaking of his work as a prison chaplain not for him the lazy retirement of the dignitary he went straight to those most in need and gave them his heart and he was still growing in his own heart i was very privileged to see a little moment a few years ago that spoke so much to me i don t want to give any personal details but there had been some disagreement between graeme and someone else involved in the buddhist scene they ran into each other at a ceremony i was at and when they saw each other there was a moment of recognition and then a big hug to me that s a sign of a real practitioner not to be perfect but to forgive and to move on while graeme was deeply non sectarian in his approach to dhamma he had a strong connection with the chinese pure land tradition and was a close student of master chin kung a number of years ago when he was very ill he laughed with me that he would be soon in the pure land he was delighted at the prospect wherever he is now i have no doubt at all that he s happy he devoted his life to sharing the joy of the dhamma and i know that he would just want you to be happy as well so let s make his life meaningful by staying happy and if anyone has some thoughts or memories of graeme you d like to share please leave them below may 5 2015 sujato 3 comments suttacentral now has donations suttacentral is now accepting donations donate to suttacentral in the past we did not set up a donations facility as we had enough funds for our limited needs now however we are employing a full time developer in addition to several other ongoing costs such as typing the texts in several languages so we have set this up to guarantee our future stability the work behind the scenes has been mainly done by deepika who has set up the suttacentral development trust details are on our donations page the facility has been set up using the secure modern payment system stripe if you think suttacentral is amazing now you can help us make it even better april 23 2015 sujato 9 comments 9 day sutta retreat at jhana grove with bhantes sujato brahmali this is a residential retreat organized by the buddhist fellowship ven brahmali and myself will be presenting dn16 mahaparinibbana sutta with time for discussions and meditations it s vesak season so we ll take the chance to spend some time with the buddha as he slowly makes his way towards his final passing it s one of the most moving and powerful texts in all of buddhism friday 24 april 2015 at 17 00 sunday 3 may 2015 at 11 00 awst bookings are being organized through the 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