[Reader-list] Asian edition. A conference on Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in South East Asia

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ASIAN EDITION 


A Conference on Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in South East Asia 
Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Manila, and the UP Film Institute

Date: November 24, 2006, 9:00 am ­ 5:00 pm, UP Film Institute, University of  the Philippines, Diliman, Metro Manila, CMC Auditorium

Many Filipinos still remember the "Asian Edition" - a scheme during the Marcos years, when American textbooks were reprinted locally and without paying royalties to the original publishers. Now, “Asian Edition” serves as title for a conference that will look at the phenomenon of media piracy in South East Asia today. Music, movie and software piracy is one of the most prominent media issues of the digital millennium. In the Philippines it has started a whole underground economy and currently seems to change the way movies and other media products are distributed and consumed products here and in other South East Asian countries. 

The goal of the workshop is to contribute to an informed discussion of media piracy and issues of Intellectual Property in the age of digital reproduction. Instead of portraying piracy exclusively as a crime against artists and distributors, the proposed workshop will look at piracy as a social, cultural and economic phenomenon. And it will discuss new concepts of addressing ownership of Intellectual Property, such as Creative Commons and Open Source. 

Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel, Visiting Professor at the University of the Philippines, organizes the conference. 
 


Confirmed participants include: 
Raymond Red, film director, Manila
Cornelia Sollfrank, artist, Hamburg 
Raul Pertierra, sociologist, Manila 
Rolando Tolentino, National University Singapore 
Volker Grassmuck, writer, Berlin 
Khavn de la Cruz, film director, Manila 

More information at: 
www.asian-edition.org

The conference is free and open to the public.