Freie Netze. Freies Wissen (2007) [German]

21 February 2009, dusan

Noch nie war es einfacher, Menschen und ihr Wissen in Form von Texten, Bildern oder Tönen zusammenzubringen und zu vernetzen. Freie Netze sind der Versuch, dieses Potential von Internet und PC auszuschöpfen und möglichst alle Menschen daran teilhaben zu lassen.

FREIES WISSEN. Der Zugang zu digitalen Netzen bedeutet noch nicht den Zugang zu Inhalten. Ein freier Zugang zu Wissen ist aber die Basis für Innovation und Emanzipation. Den neuen Möglichkeiten für freien Zugang zu Wissen stehen neue und alte, soziale und rechtliche Barrieren gegenüber.

Von siebzehn Autorinnen und Autoren werden die verschiedenen Anwendungsbereiche von Freien Netzen und Freiem Wissen dargestellt. In jedem der neun Kapitel kommen in Interviews Menschen wie Lawrence Lessig oder Richard Stallman zu Wort, die mit dem Thema als ExpertInnen, PionierInnen oder unmittelbar Betroffene zu tun hatten oder haben. Am Ende jedes Kapitels finden sich konkrete Projektvorschläge zur Umsetzung auf lokaler Ebene als Beitrag für das Linzer Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2009.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Intro
Kapitel 01: Freiheit lieg in der Luft
Kapitel 02: Kreativität in Fesseln
Kapitel 03: Offene Lehre ist freie Lehre ist gute Lehre
Kapitel 04: Freie Software für freie BürgerInnen
Kapitel 05: Zurück in die Zukunft des Internet
Kapitel 06: Ars Electronica Activa
Kapitel 07: Freiheit der Kunst durch freie Werke?
Kapitel 08: Digitale Freiheit für Forschung und ForscherInnen
Kapitel 09: Die Voraussetzungen der Freiheit
Statt eines Glossars: Digitale Freiheit von A bis Z

2007 Wien Echo media verlag ges.m.b.h.
ISBN 3-901761-64-0
Herausgeber: Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Forsterleitner


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Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era

21 February 2009, pht

Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the “global knowledge-based economy” and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and human development in general.

This book examines major problems in the current IPR regime, particularly the copyright regime, in the context of digitization, knowledge economy, and globalization. The book contends that the final goals of IP law and policy-making are to enhance the progress of science and economic development, and the use and even-distribution of intellectual resource at the global level. By referring to major international IP consensus, recent developments in regional IP forums and the successful experiences of various countries, YiJun Tian is able to provide specific theoretical, policy and legislative suggestions for addressing current copyright challenges. The book contends that each nation should strengthen the coordination of its IP protection and development strategies, adopt a more systematic and heterogeneous approach, and make IP theory, policy, specific legal mechanisms, marketing forces and all other available measures work collectively to deal with digital challenges and in a way that contributes to the establishment of a knowledge equilibrium international society.

Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era
By YiJun Tian
Contributor Jane Winn
Edition: illustrated
Published by Taylor & Francis, 2008
ISBN 0415465346, 9780415465342
338 pages
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Catherine Elwes: Video Art: A Guided Tour (2005)

20 February 2009, pht

“Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked–often unknown. This book is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history. Elwes, herself a pioneer of early video, traces the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the ’60s and ’70s to today’s digital technology, from early experiments in “real time” to the “new narrative” movement of the 1980s. She also examines video’s love-hate relationship with television, from its literal destruction in “scratch” video to its apparent absorption into the mainstream with works commissioned by Channel Four. Throughout its forty-year history, video has been allied to self-portraiture, landscape, painting and sculpture and has been co-opted as a political tool. Artists discussed include amongst many others Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover, The Duvet Brothers, Dara Birnbaum, Bill Viola, Pipilloti Rist, David Hall, Stuart Marshall, Shirin Neshat, Smith & Stewart, Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood.”

Publisher I.B.Tauris, 2005
ISBN 1850435464, 9781850435464
x+212 pages

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