Firmenvorträge (Do, 04.05.2006)
FilmCommons
von Meike Richter, Karsten Gerloff (Free Software Foundation Europe), Markus Beckedahl (newthinking communications)
Donnerstag, 04.05.2006, Saal 11B, 16:00-18:00 Uhr
Digital networks are pushing copyright to its limits. Scared and confused, giant film and music corporations demand ever tighter restrictions on users of their works. Others are looking further. The Creative Commons project provides a simple way of making texts, music and films available on terms that are just as free as the creators choose. Creative Commons provides licenses that are easy to understand and to use.
Creativity needs incentives, and copyright should provide them. But creativity also needs access to inspirational works. Creative Commons builds on copyright to provide this access.
We will show a selection of shortfilms which are distributed under Creative Commons licenses. The makers of these anmiations, trick films and documentaries have replaced the common "All rights reserved" by "Some rights reserved". They are experimenting with p2p-economy and alternative distribution systems. And they are finding their audience on the Internet.
Together with you, we will work out how Creative Commons works, how you can use it, and what its limits are. Come and watch, discuss with us and bring popcorn!
Über den Autor Meike Richter:
Meike Richter studied cultural sciences with emphasis on information engineering at the University of Lüneburg (Germany). She focuses on how digital technologies influence everyday life, especially how classic forms of power transform themselves under the impact of new information technologies. In 2001/2002, Meike spent some time in Latin America, teaching HTML in Nicaragua and working in a Chilean Internet editorial. In 2004/2005, she was one of the organizers of the „download culture?“ lectures in Lüneburg (Germany), which focused on property in digital data spaces, including speakers such as Volker Grassmuck, Markus Beckedahl and Jeanette Hofmann. Meike has a (very neglected) blog www.fair-code.net. She wrote her master's thesis about the role of Free/Open Source Software in the discourse about the Digital Divide. Meike has given a lecture at the 22. Chaos Communication Congress about this issue. She works for NDR Online.
Über den Autor Karsten Gerloff:
Since the start of 2005, Karsten has worked with the Free Software Foundation Europe [1]. First as an intern and then as a volunteer, he specialises in topics concerning Access to Knowledge [2]: Copyright, Patents and their impact on society, as well as Free Software and digital civil rights.
At the World Intellectual Property Organisation [3], where FSF Europe is a permanent observer, Karsten works to inform stakeholders and policymakers, as well as networking with other NGOs.
Karsten runs the weblog "Inside, wide-eyed" [4], where he gathers and publishes information on the most recent developments in the field. He is also working on a Masters in Cultural Sciences, with the thesis "Access to Knowledge in a Network Society" due in June 2006.
As getting out the word is part of his work, Karsten has given talks on Access to Knowledge on various occasions, such as What the Hack! festival in 2005 and the Chaos Communication Congress.
[1] http://www.fsfeurope.org
[2] http://www.access2knowledge.org/cs/
[3] http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/wipo/wipo.en.html
[4] http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/gerloff/blog
Über den Autor Markus Beckedahl:
Markus Beckedahl ist Geschäftsführer von newthinking communications, einer Kommunikationsagentur für Open Source Technologien und Strategien und lebt in Berlin. Er ist Vorsitzender des Netzwerk Neue Medien und in verschiedenen netzpolitischen Kampagnen und NGOs für den Erhalt und Ausbau von Bürgerrechten im digitalen Zeitalter aktiv. Sein Weblog netzpolitik.org in denen er über diese Themen schreibt, wurde von Reporter ohne Grenzen bei den "Freedom Blog Awards" als bestes internationales Blog zum Thema Meinungsfreiheit nominiert.