net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
by Nicola Bozzi With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about archiving. Her presentation pointed out a very important and often underestimated aspect of digital information: its long-term preservation. As pointed out in the past by theorists like Geert Lovink (the [...]
by Nicola Bozzi As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the decentralization of currencies and credit. The former began by introducing their own website, dyndy.net, an online lab providing “Tools, practices and experiences for the conceptualization, development and deployment of currency”; [...]
by Catalina Iorga Eelco Ferwerda, the president of the recently established Association of European University Presses, has been involved in electronic publishing since 1995. Ferwerda is also the Project Manager of OAPEN and leads the work on its Open Access Publication model. He received the Dutch SURFshare Open Access award in recognition of his work [...]
By morgancurrie, November 11, 2010
By Serena Westra Before the Pre-conference Seminar in Hilversum of the Economies of the Commons ended, a closing discussion with closing remarks and a short summary of the workshops was held. Ben Moskowitz was the first speaker who showed the results of the workshop. Ben Moskowitz gave a workshop with Michale Dale on Video on [...]
By admin, November 11, 2010
Economies of the Commons II HD Trailer on Vimeo. Download or play Mpeg4 (Mp4) video CREDITS: Graphic design and leader: Jeroen Joosse Sound and music: Hugo Verweij Production assistance: Crookedline Sound samples: BBC: Breaking news of Lady Diana crash, 1997 NTS: Prinsjesdag, 1960 Vara: Eerste uitzending Lingo, 1989 ITV: A major fraud: Who wants to [...]
By morgancurrie, November 9, 2010
That’s a quote from the Leonhard Dobusch, who introduced Geert Lovink’s keynote speech at the Free Culture Research Conference that took place in Berlin last month. You can read my long-due report here. Briefly, Lovink described a necessary shift from building new legal tools such as those innovated by Creative Commons, to building new economic [...]
