A Free Culture festival in Reading (in the UK).
Tag: Free Culture
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Excellent Free Record Label
I wonder if I can take Stallmanian stance on Free Culture and only listen to, read, or watch something if it’s Free? Probably not yet. -
Audio Of Lessig’s Talk at UCL
The Q&A session is particularly good: -
Grrrr (Via Lessig’s Blog Comments)
The sad old crashed car analogy has to turn licensing into ownership in order to work. You don’t own a recording or a piece of software, you license it (read the small print). It’s not like crashing your own car, a physical item that you own, and then demanding a replacement. It’s more like hiring a car, it failing, and the hire company refusing to replace it. Or worse, it’s like not being allowed to refill your car’s tank with petrol. Want to drive any further once you’ve “broken” your petrol tank? Well, make sure you buy a new car rather than engaging in “car piracy” by visiting a node on a petrol-sharing network.As for backing up money, I do this regularly. Indeed I use my backup more often than the notes that I use to make the backup. Sometimes I don’t even bother with banknotes, I just get the money over the network from someone else. I think people even make a profit from distributing other people’s money in this way.
If I remember correctly, these networks are called “banks”.
I’ve long enjoyed the convenience these “banks” provide, but I now realise that they will destroy our society’s supply of money. Clearly they must be outlawed immediately and their operators imprisoned to serve as a warning to others who would threaten our economic wellbeing. -
Copy-Art
A UK-based website for sharing CC-BY-NC work (via Rhizome):“Copy-art.net (http://www.copy-art.net ) will be exhibited at the ICA London
from Tuesday 7th September to Sunday 3rd October 2004.Copy-art.net is a copyright-free website, a curatorial project that aims to
create an online platform to exchange works between artists, curators and
the public and give the audience free access to works of art. This project
intends to challenge the idea of intellectual property and test its limits
in a copyright-free zone.Submitted works can be downloaded, changed, distributed, exhibited and used
by all visitors for free. All submitted works will be present online in an
archive, and available to the public to access. Only commercial use is
excluded, as all works are registered with Creative Commons under a
non-commercial license.This show marks the premier of new artists’ contributions by: Elizabeth
Price, Carey Young, Doug Fishbone, Abigail Reynolds, Reza Aramesh, Peter
Coffin, Ella Gibbs, Gavin Wade, Beltran Obregon and Richard Crow.Existing work will be also shown by Anna Best, Bigert&Bergstrom, Colectivo
Cambalache, Critical Art Ensemble, A K Dolven, House of O’Dwyer, Per
Huttner, juneau/projects/, Matthieu Laurette, Miltos Manetas, N55, Szuper
Gallery, Thomson & Craighead and SAK12-7.30pm daily, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, The Mall, SW1
www.copy-art.net <http://www.copy-art.net>
for further information please email mail@copy-art.net”
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Open Source Democracy
A book on how Open Source methods can re-invigorate democracy. Available under a Free-Circulation license that look suspiciously like a modified CC license 🙂 : -
The Success Of Open Source
A book on why Open Source works, how it’s good for business, and how its principles are more broadly applicable -
All My Work Is Now CC-BY-SA-2.0
All my work (well, everything I feel I can release legally 🙂 ) is now available under the CC-BY-SA-2.0 license: