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txt Monty Python youtube channel
We’re letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there! But we want something in return. None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.
[txt] In Defense of Piracy – Lawrence Lessig on Wall Street journal online
[book] Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
The return of this “remix” culture could drive extraordinary economic growth, if encouraged, and properly balanced. It could return our culture to a practice that has marked every culture in human history – save a few in the developed world for much of the 20th century – where many create as well as consume. And it could inspire a deeper, much more meaningful practice of learning for a generation that has no time to read a book, but spends scores of hours each week listening, or watching or creating, media.
txt: Perché un festival del copyleft – Copyleft Festival 2008
La sequenza più logica sarebbe: l’opera circola gratis, il gradimento si trasforma in passaparola, ne traggono beneficio la celebrità e la reputazione dell’autore, quindi aumenta il suo spazio di manovra all’interno dell’industria culturale e non solo. E’ un circolo virtuoso.
[en] The most logical sequence would be: the work circulates for free, his approval spread as word of mouth, it will benefit the fame and reputation of the author, and then increase its influence within the cultural industry and beyond. It’s a virtuous circle.
link: Copyleft Festival – www.copyleftfestival.net – 11/14 september 2008 – Arezzo
link: Ars Electronica 2008 – A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property
LINZ 04-09 september 2008
txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)
Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades. There is a new generation of youth across the globe which lead the charge into this changing world, modifying their basic behaviors to adapt to technology as it develops. Some businesses and artists have been able to keep up with these trends while other struggle and fail. The much slower to adapt legal system is being pushed to its limits with organizations on all sides of the issues trying very hard to adapt outdated laws. Most of the new behaviors and organizations creating value have a completely different notion property. Intellectual property, while key to the post-industrial revolution nature of the firm, is more of an encumbrance than an asset to the sharing oriented mode of creation now central to the Internet. This year, we will bring together the users, artists, businesses, policy makers and academics involved intentionally or beyond their control in this change to understand this new world and to try to adapt to it.
Joichi Ito
video: Company Picnic – The Meth Minute 39 – Channel Frederator on blip.tv
txt: Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem – www.techcrunch.com
The rights of the copyright holder have always been balanced against the more fundamental right of free speech. And free speech in the Internet age, more so than ever before, goes way beyond words and text. The way people express themselves on the Web increasingly involves images, video, animations, and other rich media, often in mash-ups of pre-existing works. That is how people communicate today. Both copyright law and industry standards need to evolve to take that into consideration.
