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+Part of the Unbound Libraries Documentation
+
+                 CC4R* COLLECTIVE CONDITIONS FOR RE-USE
+
+COPYLEFT ATTITUDE WITH A DIFFERENCE - VERSION 1.0
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+REMINDER TO CURRENT AND FUTURE AUTHORS:
+
+The authored work released under the CC4r was never yours to begin with.
+The CC4r considers authorship to be part of a collective cultural effort
+and rejects authorship as ownership derived from individual genius. This
+means to recognize that it is situated in social and historical
+conditions and that there may be reasons to refrain from release and
+re-use.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PREAMBLE
+
+The CC4r articulates conditions for re-using authored materials. This
+document is inspired by the principles of Free Culture – with a few
+differences. You are invited to copy, distribute, and transform the
+materials published under these conditions, and to take the implications
+of (re-)use into account.
+The CC4r understands authorship as inherently collaborative and
+already-collective. It applies to hybrid practices such as human-machine
+collaborations and other-than-human contributions. The legal framework
+of copyright ties authorship firmly in property and individual human
+creation, and prevents more fluid modes of authorial becoming from
+flourishing. Free Culture and intersectional, feminist, anti-colonial
+work reminds us that there is no tabula rasa, no original or single
+author; that authorial practice exists within a web of references.
+The CC4r favours re-use and generous access conditions. It considers
+hands-on circulation as a necessary and generative activation of
+current, historical and future authored materials. While you are free to
+(re-)use them, you are not free from taking the implications from
+(re-)use into account.
+The CC4r troubles the binary approach that declares authored works
+either ‘open’ or ‘closed’. It tries to address how a universalist
+approach to openness such as the one that Free licenses maintain, has
+historically meant the appropriation of marginalised knowledges. It is
+concerned with the way Free Culture, Free Licenses and Open Access do
+not account for the complexity and porosity of knowledge practices and
+their circulation, nor for the power structures active around it. This
+includes extractive use by software giants and commercial on-line
+platforms that increasingly invest into and absorb Free Culture.
+The CC4r asks CURRENT and FUTURE AUTHORS, as a collective, to care
+together for the implications of appropriation. To be attentive to the
+way re-use of materials might support or oppress others, even if this
+will never be easy to gauge This implies to consider the collective
+conditions of authorship.
+The CC4r asks you to be courageous with the use of materials that are
+being licensed under the CC4r. To discuss them, to doubt, to let go, to
+change your mind, to experiment with them, to give back to them and to
+take responsibility when things might go wrong.
+Considering the Collective Conditions for (re-)use involves inclusive
+crediting and speculative practices for referencing and resourcing. To
+consider the circulation of materials on commercial platforms as
+participating in extractive data practices; platform capitalism
+appropriates and abuses collective authorial practice. To take into
+account that the defaults of openness and transparency have different
+consequences in different contexts. To consider the potential necessity
+for opacity when accessing and transmitting knowledge, especially when
+it involves materials that matter to marginalized communities.
+This document was written in response to the Free Art License (FAL) in a
+process of coming to terms with the colonial structuring of knowledge
+production. It emerged out of concerns with the way Open Access and Free
+Culture ideologies foregrounding openness and freedom as universal
+principles might replicate some of the problems with conventional
+copyright.
+
+DEFINITIONS
+
+« LEGAL AUTHOR » In the CC4r, LEGAL AUTHOR is used for the individual
+that is assigned as “author” by conventional copyright. Even if the
+authored work was never theirs to begin with, he or she is the only one
+that is legally permitted to license a work under a CC4r. This license
+is therefore not about liability, or legal implications. It cares about
+the ways copyright contributes to structural inequalities.
+« CURRENT AUTHOR » can be used for individuals and collectives. It is
+the person, collective or other that was involved in generating the work
+created under a CC4r license. CURRENT and FUTURE AUTHOR are used to
+avoid designations that overly rely on concepts of ‘originality’ and
+insist on linear orders of creation.
+« FUTURE AUTHOR » can be used for individuals and collectives. They want
+to use the work under CC4r license and are held to its conditions. All
+future authors are considered coauthors, or anauthors. They are
+anauthorized because this license provides them with an unauthorized
+authorization.
+« LICENSE » due to its conditional character, this document might
+actually not qualify as a license. It is for sure not a Free Culture
+License. see also: UNIVERSALIST OPENNESS.
+« (RE-)USE » the CC4r opted for bracketing “RE” out of necessity to mess
+up the time-space linearity of the original.« OPEN <-> CLOSED » the CC4r
+operates like rotating doors… it is a swinging license, or a hinged
+license.
+« UNIVERSALIST OPENNESS » the CC4r tries to propose an alternative to
+universalist openness. A coming to terms with the fact that universal
+openness is “safe” only for some.
+
+0. CONDITIONS
+
+The invitation to (re-)use the work licenced under CC4r applies as long
+as the FUTURE AUTHOR is convinced that this does not contribute to
+oppressive arrangements of power, privilege and difference. These may be
+reasons to refrain from release and re-use.
+If it feels paralyzing to decide whether or not these conditions apply,
+it might point at the need to find alternative ways to activate the
+work. In case of doubt, consult for example
+https://constantvzw.org/wefts/orientationspourcollaboration.en.html.
+
+1. OBJECT
+
+The aim of this license is to articulate collective conditions for
+re-use.
+
+2. SCOPE
+
+The work licensed under the CC4r is reluctantly subject to copyright
+law. By applying CC4r, the legal author extends its rights and invites
+others to copy, distribute, and modify the work.
+
+2.1 INVITATION TO COPY (OR TO MAKE REPRODUCTIONS)
+
+When the conditions under 0. apply, you are invited to copy this work,
+for whatever reason and with whatever technique.
+
+2.2 INVITATION TO DISTRIBUTE, TO PERFORM IN PUBLIC
+
+As long as the conditions under 0. apply, you are invited to distribute
+copies of this work; modified or not, whatever the medium and the place,
+with or without any charge, provided that you:
+
+-   attach this license to each of the copies of this work or indicate
+    where the license can be found;
+-   make an effort to account for the collective conditions of the work,
+    for example what contributions were made to the modified work and by
+    whom, or how the work could continue;
+-   specify where to access other versions of the work.
+
+2.3 INVITATION TO MODIFY
+
+As long as the conditions under 0. apply, you are invited to make future
+works based on the current work, provided that you:
+
+-   observe all conditions in article 2.2 above, if you distribute
+    future works;
+-   indicate that the work has been modified and, if possible, what kind
+    of modifications have been made.
+-   distribute future works under the same license or any compatible
+    license.
+
+3. INCORPORATION OF THE WORK
+
+Incorporating this work into a larger work (i.e., database, anthology,
+compendium, etc.) is possible. If as a result of its incorporation, the
+work can no longer be accessed apart from its appearance within the
+larger work, incorporation can only happen under the condition that the
+larger work is as well subject to the CC4r or to a compatible license.
+
+4. COMPATIBILITY
+
+A license is compatible with the CC4r provided that:
+
+-   it invites users to take the implications of their appropriation
+    into account;
+-   it invites to copy, distribute, and modify copies of the work
+    including for commercial purposes and without any other restrictions
+    tha
+    n those required by the other compatibility criteria;
+-   it ensures that the collective conditions under which the work was
+    authored are attributed unless not desirable, and access to previous
+    versions of the work is provided when possible;
+-   it recognizes the CC4r as compatible (reciprocity);
+-   it requires that changes made to the work will be subject to the
+    same license or to a license which also meets these compatibility
+    criteria.
+
+5. LEGAL FRAMEWORK
+
+Because of the conditions mentioned under 0., this is not a Free
+License. It is reluctantly formulated within the framework of both the
+Belgian law and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and
+Artistic Works.
+“We recognize that private ownership over media, ideas, and technology
+is rooted in European conceptions of property and the history of
+colonialism from which they formed. These systems of privatization and
+monopolization, namely copyright and patent law, enforce the systems of
+punishment and reward which benefit a privileged minority at the cost of
+others’ creative expression, political discourse, and cultural survival.
+The private and public institutions, legal frameworks, and social values
+which uphold these systems are inseparable from broader forms of
+oppression. Indigenous people, people of color, queer people, trans
+people, and women are particularly exploited for their creative and
+cultural resources while hardly receiving any of the personal gains or
+legal protections for their work. We also recognize that the public
+domain has jointly functioned to compliment the private, as works in the
+public domain may be appropriated for use in proprietary works.
+Therefore, we use copyleft not only to circumvent the monopoly granted
+by copyright, but also to protect against that appropriation.”
+[Decolonial Media License]
+
+6. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
+
+The invitation to use the work as defined by the CC4r (invitation to
+copy, distribute, modify) implies to take the implications of the
+appropriation of the materials into account.
+
+7. DURATION OF THE LICENSE
+
+This license takes effect as of the moment that the FUTURE AUTHOR
+accepts the invitation of the CURRENT AUTHOR. The act of copying,
+distributing, or modifying the work constitutes a tacit agreement. This
+license will remain in effect for the duration of the copyright which is
+attached to the work. If you do not respect the terms of this license,
+the invitation that it confers is void. If the legal status or
+legislation to which you are subject makes it impossible for you to
+respect the terms of this license, you may not make use of the rights
+which it confers.
+
+8. VARIOUS VERSIONS OF THE LICENSE
+
+You are invited to reformulate this license by way of new, renamed
+versions. Link to license on gitlab. You can of course make
+reproductions and distribute this license verbatim (without any
+changes).
+
+9. USER GUIDE
+
+– How to use the CC4r?
+
+To apply the CC4r, you need to mention the following elements:
+[Name of the legal author, title, date of the work. When applicable,
+names of authors of the common work and, if possible, where to find
+other versions of the work].
+Copyleft with a difference: This is a collective work, you are invited
+to copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the CC4r [link to
+license].
+Short version: Legal author=name, date of work. CC4r [link to license]
+
+– Why use the CC4r?
+
+1.  To remind yourself and others that you do not own authored works;
+2.  To not allow copyright to hinder works to evolve, to be extended, to
+    be transformed;
+3.  To allow materials to circulate as much as they need to;
+4.  Because the CC4r offers a legal framework to disallow
+    mis-appropriation by insisting on inclusive attribution. Nobody can
+    take hold of the work as one’s exclusive possession.
+
+– When to use the CC4r?
+
+Any time you want to invite others to copy, distribute and transform
+authored works without exclusive appropriation but with considering the
+implications of (re-)use, you can use the CC4r. You can for example
+apply it to collective documentation, hybrid productions, artistic
+collaborations or educational projects.
+
+– What kinds of works can be subject to the CC4r?
+
+The Collective Conditions for re-use can be applied to digital as well
+as physical works.You can choose to apply the CC4r for any text,
+picture, sound, gesture, or whatever material as long as you have legal
+author’s rights.
+
+– Background of this license:
+
+The CC4r was developed for the Constant worksession Unbound libraries
+(spring 2020) and followed from discussions during and contributions to
+the study day Authors of the future (Fall 2019). It is based on the Free
+Art License and inspired by other licensing projects such as the
+(Cooperative) Non-Violent Public License and the Decolonial Media
+license. Copyleft Attitude with a difference, 6 October 2020. Read more
+about CC4r in: “Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use” (Elodie
+Mugrefya & Femke Snelting, MARCH, spring 2022)

README

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+A tool to insert characters absent from the keyboard using a heredoc* declaration, dmenu and xdotool.
+* https://stackoverflow.com/a/21549836
+
+Dependencies :
+	xdotool - command-line X11 automation tool
+	dmenu - dynamic menu https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
+
+Usage :
+	chmod +x dictionary.sh
+	./dictionary.sh
+
+Or :
+	Using the i3 window manager, i have put a binding on the combination of
+	Super+Shift+y that will launch the script.  bindsym $mod+Shift+y exec
+	"~/dictionary.sh"
+