No Disconnect! SOPA dead … for now.
Three days before a protest blackout of major Internet sites including Wikipedia, SOPA’s main sponsor Eric Cantor announced that he will stop to move the bill forward … unless there…
"Uma exceção ao direito autoral para monetizar o compartilhamento de arquivos"
O Centro de Estudos do Auditório Ibirapuera de São Paulo publicou dois livros em agosto do ano passado: o primeiro número da Revista Auditório e a edição especial Repensando Música.…
Guttenberg is back
After the depths of the plagiarism scandal leading to his ousting as German Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg moved to exile in the US of A, where he joined…
LiMux: Munich goes Free Software
Munich’s LiMux project announced that on 12.12.2011 the 9,000th PC workstation in the city’s administration was migrated to the new LiMux Client, putting the project ahead of its schedule. With…
DIGITALIA – Congresso Internacional de Música e Cultura Digital, em Salvador da Bahia, 1-4 fevereiro 2012
O DIGITALIA – Congresso Internacional de Música e Cultura Digital pretende reunir, em Salvador, de 1o a 4 de fevereiro de 2012, diversas iniciativas que relacionam o campo da música…
Postcolonial Piracy, 2-4 December 2011, Berlin
In the economic South, access to global flows of goods, technology and ideas increasingly occurs through a culture of piracy that sidesteps the global juridical and economic norms set, for…
Kreativität und ihre Bezahlung: Vom Marktversagen zu Peer-to-Peer
Volker Grassmuck Ausarbeitung des Beitrags auf dem Kulturpolitischen Bundeskongress in Forum 10 über „Kulturflatrate & Creative Commons. Neue Bezahlmodelle und die Freiheit der Kunst”, erschienen auf : netz.macht.kultur, 11.11.11. Der…
Friedrich Kittler 1934-2011
“Auch ein Herz, das an Kontaktmikrophonen und Oszilloskopen hängt, wird still. Und wenn mit Laut und Leise, Hell und Dunkel, Himmel und Hölle alle Unterschiede schwinden, kommt ein anderer Raum…
Vorschlag zum Besseren – die Tauschlizenz
Vorschlag zum Besseren – die Tauschlizenz* Volker Grassmuck RFC1 ver. 1.0, 6.10.2011 Ende April stellte der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) ein Vergütungsmodell für Kreative vor, die Kulturwertmark (KWM). Zunächst was…
EU: Copyright on sound recordings extended from 50 to 70 years
BBC News reports on 12 September 2011: Rock veterans win copyright fight. On Monday, the EU Council voted to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years.…