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Working Group: Open Distribution Models for Broadcasting

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

People are slowly coming back into the room after the lunch break. The most popular workgroup, called Open Distribution Models for Broadcasting, caught the attention of about twenty people. A video call with Bregtje van der Haak live from Hong Kong is set up, as she is joining us in the discussion the first half [...]

Sustainability of the Free and Open: From Terra Nullius to the New Commons

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

by Caroline Goralczyk In his talk on the challenges of sustaining common goods in the digital era, Yann Moulier-Boutang, editor of the Quarterly French Review MULTITUDES and professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, discussed the fate of digital commons by comparing them to the ancient commons of pre-colonial primitive accumulation, such as fishing, [...]

Jeff Ubois and Wishful Thinking: Thoughts on Cultural Institutions and Archival

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

by Catalina Iorga Jeff Ubois, of archival.tv, gave the last talk of the Economies of Commons 2 conference at De Balie, Amsterdam and presented his thoughts on the imbalance of public/private institutions, and how libraries, museums and archives can meet the new challenges of preservation.

(Pro-) Active Archives: NIMk – Sandra Fauconnier

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

Preservation, artlab, research, collection.. all rolled up into one: the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk). Starting in 1978, NIMk collects and preserves media art and electronic products, in addition to operating as a distributor to generate revenue for artists who work with new technologies. Sandra Fauconnier pinpoints one of the unique selling-points of the NIMk. [...]

“Our common mission” – Charlotte Hess as keynote speaker

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

What is scholarly communication? Should higher education be considered a public good? How will we be able to structure the zettabytes of the digital universe? What is the trend in open access and public depositing? Scholar Charlotte Hess addresses her main concerns regarding digital commons, and knowledge commons in particular. As an Associate Dean for [...]

Bram Tullemans from NPO: License issues complicate open video exhibition

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

As policy adviser of distribution technologies for the NPO, ‘Nederlandse Publieke Omroep’ (Dutch Public Broadcasting), Bram Tullemans finds himself situated at the heart of the debate on open video distribution. He has been occupied with Uitzending Gemist, a Dutch service website which provides television programs from the public channels online short after they were broadcasted [...]

(Pro)-Active Archives: Celluloid Remix – Annelies Termeer

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

By Fenneke Mink Annelies Termeer presents the Celluloid Remix online video contest organized by EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Images for the Future. In this 7 years during project four public archive institutes digitize, save, preserve and share the Dutch audiovisual heritage for the future. What comes after digitization is the question Termeer answers by [...]

An introduction of Intelligent Television – By Peter Kaufman

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

Peter B. Kaufman is president and founder of Intelligent Televisio0n, a research institute focussed on video developments concerning culture & education. He gave four key points for introduction which he will turn further into in the next sessions: Force of law, technology and history is on the side of liberty and access. To quote Jean-Jacques [...]

How to pay the costs of keeping things free: Volker Ralf Grassmuck’s proposal for license sharing

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

by Olga Paraskevopoulou Volker Ralf Grassmuck opened the first session of the third day of the conference that aimed to address the question of “how to pay the costs of keeping things free”. He presented the “The sharing license”: a legal permission for online sharing of published copyright protected works, for personal non-commercial purposes, subject [...]

Michael Dale Explains the Benefits of Open Video Platforms

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

by Catalina Iorga Michael Dale is an advocate for open standard and free video formats for the web. The past two years he has lead open source development for video on Wikipedia in partnership with Kaltura, and worked closely with the Mozilla foundation and the Open Video Alliance. Dale is also the lead developer for [...]