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Record W285087137

Cultural Rights and Intellectual Property Debates

2005· article· en· W285087137 on OpenAlexaff
Rosemary J. Coombe

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicCopyright and Intellectual Property
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic domainIntellectual propertyAppropriationPolitical scienceCultural rightsCommonsCultural propertyLaw and economicsSociologyIndigenousPublic useProperty rightsLawFundamental rightsHuman rightsCultural heritageEpistemologyGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this brief note, I discuss the interplay between cultural rights and intellectual property with a focus on ‘free culture’-public domain movements. These movements, primarily based in the U.S., advocate for a unitary public domain of cultural materials in order to fashion a new digital creative commons. This position fails to appreciate cultural rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities who have been historically marginalized and prone to resource and identity appropriation. Assertions of individual liberty and the public circulation of culture must acknowledge and listen to peoples with distinct traditions. Our goal must be a more inclusive and culturally pluralistic public domain when considering intellectual property protection.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.063

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0130.074
Scholarly communication0.0190.021
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0120.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2005
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