From the Constant collaboration guidelines:

"When it comes to technology, we think Free Software can make a difference because we are invited to consider, interrogate and discuss the technical details of software and hardware, or when we want to engage with its concepts, politics and histories. For this reason, we distribute all our work under Open Content Licenses (Free Art License) and work with and on Free, Libre and Open Source Software. Over the last years, we have come to the realisation that being affirmative of Free Culture has to come with more critical considerations. Although we are not sure yet how, we want to take into account the links of Open Access ideology to colonial extractivism which can obstruct the imagination of complexity and porosity. In addition we want to take into account the rights to opacity in access and transmission of knowledge, especially in regard to marginalized communities."

http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/123/

adhere open access ideology
conscious about colonial extractivism
Constant being the one to be positively impacted by the legacies
An awkward way of saying we don't know how to do it


https://localcontexts.org/tk-labels/

traditional knowledge licenses is set of labels, educational tool to talk to people about different restrictions the material can be seen
ex. women/men restricted: no strict banning but a way to inform people that there might be issues
granularity in accessibility, desire from people dealing with traditional knowledges: age, name, gender
cfr discussion with BAL: how to put in place archive of LGTB taking into account the sensitive materials

relates to exposure - giving visibility. Authority in the gesture of archiving.
visibility is a claim as well

tired of knowledge being taking; them putting their name
antropoligists would put their name on the book, while the book cannot exist without their contribution (indigenous practices of copyright /or non-existing copyright)

knowledge production vs knowledge management= just ordering, managing of knowledge.
the exhaustion of the informant

everything we do and know comes from someone/something else
we interconnect, we can't own our own thoughts/words
nourishing each other at the heart of open acces, but there is a problem. Extraction. Never equal.
we are in context of abundance of ressources, informs our defense of open access...
cultural appropriation happens in the places of such abundance

So how to account for unequal access in open access?
How to deal with collective authorship that happens along borders/nations/languages?
ex Belgian author using ideas of Congolese author

complication of open access is bound of legal framework that can only deal with authorship on individual ownership
difficult to think about collectivity in here


authorship outside the legal frame
inside an ethical one?

Eva: problem is not to work collectivity, but the attribution practices when this work enters systems of cultural capital, monetizing, archiving, academic institution...

Does the author want to be seen/hidden?
needs to be negociated in the contract (social contract?)

open access does have a rigid attribution & referencing obligation, crediting is happening
maybe problem is the kind of attribution? or how it opens up material for general access?

indigenous copyright and scale
if someone comes into the libary with a different scale and gets the space to commandeer, it is problematic
think about privilege on a moving scale

sharing based on scale and affect
attempst of Free culture was to share beyond affect
trying to not limit the sharing to friends only.
more about not wanting to share with systems/institutions I don't agree with

generational fear, fear of making mistakes
cultural appropriation can have consequences
often taken to extreme, where there is fear of handling ressources
this leads to racial purity
you need to be given permission, when it is rented, and you don't take it, it leads to more whiteness

everything is potentially problematic - dirty hands in the compost heap
can situatedness be a solution?
give trust/permission & accepting it
not sure whether feeling of being stolen comes from facts or from trauma?

givers 
who has the obligation to give
gatekeeping and why
caretaking and why, who does that that work