The copyright law reform in Brazil is at a crucial stage. In November 2009, the Ministry of Culture had organised a conference for publishing the law draft but failed to do so. Ever since at monthly intervals, it announced the… Mehr lesen >
The Institute of European Media Law (EML) and the Project Group for Constitutionally Compatible Technology Design (provet) at the University of Kassel, commissioned by the parliamentary groups of the German Greens in the Bundestag and the European Parliament, in March… Mehr lesen >
One of the most radical thinkers about copyright has just published a new chapter in the ongoing exploration of a different world that is possible: Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel, Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomerates… Mehr lesen >
Arthur Protasio, the coordinator of the Game Studies project at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) of the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro invited me to a colloquium on 7 December with the above title. The other… Mehr lesen >
Next week Thiago invited me and two colleagues from G-Popai to the University Campinas. With Radio Muda and the first Submidialogia meeting in 2005 and Casa de Cultura Tainã and etc. etc. it’s an important node in the free culture… Mehr lesen >
The Fórum de Cultura Digital Brasileira including the Seminário Internacional will take place at Cinemateca from 18. to 21. of November. The programme includes key persons from free culture activism in Brazil like Sérgio Amadeu, Dalton Martins and Ronaldo Lemos,… Mehr lesen >