The Greens/EFA conference will address the question: How can we guarantee a fair remuneration of authors and creators together with the universal access and circulation of knowledge and culture? Among others they have invited me to speak about the Culture… Mehr lesen >
A tradução de „A Copyright Exception for Monetizing File-Sharing. A proposal for balancing user freedom and author remuneration in the Brazilian copyright law reform“ por Bráulio Santos Rabelo de Araújo for publicado no site do GPOPAI.
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 >
Request for Comments Draft, 18.3.2010 Volker Ralf Grassmuck* Licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA BR 3.0 Licence1 File-sharing has become wide-spread media cultural practice since Napster was launched in 1999. The response by the copyright industry has been repression. This… 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 >
Am 25. Januar hat der Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) seine Position zur Kultur-Flatrate veröffentlicht. Das Papier ist von maßlosen Übertreibungen, hinkenden Vergleichen und Schüssen in die eigenen Füsse durchzogen. Da sich zwischen den Zeilen erstmals eine Gesprächsbereitschaft erkennen lässt, verdient es… 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 >
anteprojeto or anti-project? A balancing of the rights of authors and consumers, the re-introduction of a private copying exception, a remixing permission and a new regulatory agency for copyright issues are among the core points the Brazilian Ministry of Culture… 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 >
(in gekürzter Fassung erschienen in der Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft, 7/2009, 17.12.2009) Die Kultur-Flatrate (KF) ist alternativlos, weil die von ihren Gegnern vorgebrachten Alternativen keine sind. Extremistische Modelle wie die in Frankreich vorgeschlagene digitale Todesstrafe für Tauschbörsennutzer sind… Mehr lesen >