Posts Tagged: copyright

Book launch ‘The Telekommunist Manifesto’ by Dymitri Kleiner

By morgancurrie, November 16, 2010

Dymitri Kleiner is used to writing code, not books. However the texts that he was spreading around the Internet, inspired a lot of practitioners in the field of the free and open. One of those practisioners and friend of Dymitri, Matteo Pasquinelli, eventually took the effort in gathering all of Dymitri’s texts that were scattered [...]

Europeana – Aggregating Europe’s cultural heritage

By morgancurrie, November 15, 2010

Former worker at Knowledgeland, Harry Verwayen started off his presentation by mentioning what he would not cover in his talk, namely viable revenue models to apply in this day and age (since according to Verwayen, this has been greatly covered on Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly’s blog). Thereafter, Verwayen directly mentions what he finds an effective [...]

A contribution to a critique of free culture: From Anti-Copyright to the Creative Anti-Commons

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

Dymitri Kleiner is a software developer working on projects that investigate the political economy of the internet, and the ideal of workers’ self-organization of production as a form of class struggle. Born in the USSR, Dmytri grew up in Toronto and now lives in Berlin. He is a founder of the Telekommunisten Collective, which provides [...]

Hans Westerhof: Paying the Cost of Access

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

Hans Westerhof, deputy director at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and program manager of the Images for the Future project spoke about the cost that access bears on archives in a digital world in the panel Materiality and Sustainability of Culture. The traditional archive of Sound & Vision consists out of 21 vaults, [...]