[Reader-list] FREE CULTURE ROADSHOW

[Partha Dasgupta]

Dear All,

The Centre for Internet and Society and the Magic Lantern Foundation take

pleasure in inviting you to the Free Culture Roadshow,  a presentation on

‘The Right to Share’ and ‘The Promise of Open Video’.


Venue: Conference Room 2


India International Centre


40, Max Mueller Marg,

New Delhi -110003


Date: 20th December, 2009

Time: 9.00am to 01.00pm


Entry Free:  All Welcome


For more details and profile of the speakers please visit:

http://www.magiclanternfoundation.org/Events/cisroadshow.html


A Brief Abstract of the two discussions is given below:


The Right to Share: What Does Copying Have to Do with Freedom? by Elizabeth

Stark

The Internet has unleashed the potential to communicate and collaborate like

never before, and the result has been an unprecedented flow of culture and

information. Millions of individuals are now sharing and creating culture:

copying, cutting, remixing, and participating in new and different ways.

Sometimes this activity is transformative. Sometimes it's straight copying.

In either case, there is a clear connection between this sharing of culture

and personal freedom.

This talk will explore how various conceptions of "freedom" have shaped the

social movements for free software, free culture, and free knowledge, and

how this ideology has manifested itself in real action. It will connect

theory with practice, exploring the cultural innovations and political

changes that have spawned forth from these movements. Lastly, it will make

the case that the broad-based availability, accessibility, and abundance of

culture is a good thing for our global society.



The Revolution Will Be Recorded, Remixed, and Redistributed: The Promise of

Open Video

by Dean Jansen and Ben Moskowitz

Between news, cinema, television, and documentary film, we find ourselves

swimming in a sea of moving images. This has been the story of the 20th

century. Yet in this age, the tools for creating and sharing video are

becoming widely distributed in the hands of millions of individuals. Desktop

video editing software is pervasive; webcams and video-equipped mobile

phones abound. Video now belongs to everyone. It is becoming a powerful

medium for self-expression, a kind of cultural currency.

How will this phenomenon change the Internet? How will it change society?

What questions persist for the architecture of the Internet, and how will

public policy address this ultimately political transformation? This talk

sets forth a vision of networked video as a truly participatory medium, one

that will power the next 10 years of innovation on the web. Dean Jansen and

Ben Moskowitz introduce some core technologies for open video, and the

obstacles they face on the road to mass adoption.



Speaker Profile:


Elizabeth Stark is a leader in the global free culture movement. She is a

Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer

Science at Yale University.  A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded

the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of

Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked on using new media to

promote human rights with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights.  Elizabeth

has worked extensively with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and

has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Digital Copyright, Technology and Politics,

and Electronic Music. She recently produced the inaugural Open Video

Conference in NYC, garnering over 8000 viewers across the web. Elizabeth

regularly gives talks around the world on free culture, and has collaborated

with myriad organizations on promoting shared knowledge and the open web.


Dean Jansen is a Free Culture activist and guerrilla artist based in New

York. He attended Harvard University and was a leader in the Harvard Free

Culture Group.

Dean assisted in teaching media studies and law courses at MIT and Harvard,

and has organized numerous academic conferences.

He currently serves as outreach director at the non-profit Participatory

Culture Foundation, makers of the Miro internet TV player. His art projects

can be viewed at www.notthemessiah.net.


Ben Moskowitz is general coordinator at the Open Video Alliance, a coalition

to democratize the moving image. Ben co-founded the UC Berkeley chapter of

Students for Free Culture and taught a seminar on the politics of piracy at

Berkeley's School of Information.

He currently serves on the board of directors of the international

organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to

knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture.

Partha Dasgupta
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