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Fair dealing
Similar to fair use, used in many common law countries.
The main difference is that “fair use” tends to be an open-ended legal doctrine (the US copyright statute provides factors which contribute to fair use), while “fair dealing” is defined in a constrained manner, through an enumerated list of causes for exemption that allows little room for judicial interpretation.
Fair use
A copyright principle based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials for
purposes of commentary and criticism. For example, if you wish to criticise a novelist, you should have the freedom to quote a portion of the novelist’s work without asking permission. Without this freedom, copyright owners could stifle any negative comments about their work.
Feminism
Feminism is a movement aimed at critiqueing and debunking patriarchal structures which promote male power and privilege. Its ideology is based on the principles of gender equality and social justice. It seeks to transform the world by mobilization and resistance to women's oppression and advancing alternative ideals of justice and anti-sexism. The women's liberation movement, for example, was formed by women who adopted the idea that women were oppressed in the same way that colonized people were, therefore women needed to be freed from oppression, not just given equal rights.
Feminism also requires an understanding or recognition that rights of women should be equal to men. However, interpretations of what equality means differs across cultures, races, religions, ages, and genders. One of the challenges feminism faces are differences in feminist ideologies. Feminism is a multiple term and thus should be conceptualized as plural, in other words, Feminisms.
Related resources: »AWID - Young Women and Leadership Glossary
Filtering and blocking
There are various means that can be used to prevent access to information on the Internet. This essentially involves two methods - filtering and blocking. Filtering involves reading the content of packets of data looking for certain words or phrases. Those that are found are prevented from travelling further. Blocking works by looking for the IP address of the packet. Those packets going to or from a particular location are rejected and prevented from travelling further. Both filtering and blocking, if applied by the state, or an Internet service provider, are very effective (but crude) means of censorship on the Internet.
Free and open source software (FLOSS)
Open source software is software that is made publicly available with the source code – the original program – instructions – open for others to look at. the creator of an open source software application holds the copyright for the work, but distributes the software under a license that grants a number of substantial rights to the user. there are many different open source licenses available, but most give software users at least the rights: to access the source code, to modify the source code, to use the software freely and to redistribute it in original or derivative form. the concept of free software goes further in requiring all derivative works to be made available under similar licensing terms as the initial source code – effectively requiring software that includes or is based on free software, to also become free software.
Freedom of Association
Freedom of association is a principle contained in various human rights documents. Its objective is to ensure that people are able to meet and interact freely, without the interference of the state or others. It is not an absolute right; therefore it generally only has applicability where the purpose of association is lawful, and where the act of association does not infringe the human rights of others (for example, a racist demonstration may not use the right of freedom of association to permit its holding). Freedom of association is one of the main themes within the emerging field of Internet Rights.
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of expression is a principle contained in various human rights documents. Its objective is to ensure that people are able to communicate and express opinions, in public, private, either written or spoken, without the interference of the state or others. It is not an absolute right; therefore it generally only has applicability where the purpose of expression is lawful, and where the act of expression does not infringe the human rights of others (for example, a racist hate speech may not use the right of freedom of expression to permit its communication). Freedom of expression is one of the main themes within the emerging field of Internet Rights.
Freeware
Copyrighted software given away for free by the author.
Although it is available for free, the author retains the copyright, which means that you can do nothing with it unless it is expressly allowed by the author. Often the author allows people to use the software, but not sell it.
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