Globally, we can see a consumption culture which holds true for knowledge as well - reading is the most established cultural activity. Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, has been advocating to create Read-Write culture all across the world. At the same time, he is fighting for openness in sharing of knowledge so the remixing can be decriminalized, rather encouraged (Stephey, 2008).
In Pakistan, there is not much awareness about copyright, open education resources or creative commons in the public because there is no write/create culture at large in schools or students. Publishers, Academics, Artists and Musicians have been fighting to evade piracy so it is a very selective audience which creates the resources. Universities are the only places which know little bit about copyright and mostly with regards to plagiarism in dissertations and publications. However, the way resources are consumed and shared otherwise seems to be a matter of little concern. For example, whenever there is a conference, the participants want speaker's Power Point after the session; same happens in classrooms. Photocopying chapters or worksheets are seen as inconsequential. Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) in Pakistan feels that the country needs to project intellectual property rights for academic and economic growth (Yusufzai, 2015). In most Pakistani universities whether public or private, most of the resources prepared by the professors and academic staff is under copyright of the university as well. Therefore, it is very difficult to provide a public domain or creative commons license to the work. On the other hand, the only rule which is followed for sharing work of others is putting a source. Most of the schools create more physical resources than digital so there is not much concern. However, they use other digital resources and might not even source them because of lack of knowledge. Such a situation also brings a question whether people would be comfortable to provide their work as OER because of lack of responsible sharing. I guess, openness is required on part of the contributors to realize that in order to develop the culture, we would need to sacrifice some of our individual rights and interests for a collective movement and good.
To sum, the issue at core globally is how to responsibly share and at the same time, encourage openness in sharing and remixing. While copyrights and the business side of it might harm the process of knowledge production but openness towards giving other permission and clear guidelines on how to attribute is a way forward to curtail privacy and also encourage more creation of knowledge, especially with regards to audio-visual content. Remixing is vital because knowledge cannot be static - it needs to creative and personalized in order to be internalized.
References: Stephey, M. J. (2008). Lawrence Lessig: Decriminalizing the Remix. TIME. http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1851241,00.html Yousufzai, A. (2015). Pakistan needs to protect IP rights for academic and economic growth. Pro Pakistani. https://propakistani.pk/2015/11/23/pakistan-needs-to-protect-ip-rights-for-academic-economic-growth/