Philippe Aigrain: Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (2012)
Filed under living book | Tags: · commons, copyright, filesharing, internet, sharing
In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world.
Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age offers a counterpoint to the dominant view that file sharing is piracy, analyzing it rather as the modern form of long recognized rights to share in culture. Sharing starts from a radically different viewpoint, namely that the non-market sharing of digital works is both legitimate and useful. Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists to be appreciated more easily. It supports this premise with empirical research, demonstrating that non-market sharing leads to more diversity in the attention given to various works.
Concentrating not only on the cultural enrichment caused by widely shared digital media, Sharing also discusses new financing models that would allow works to be shared freely by individuals without aim at profit. Aigrain carefully balances the needs to support and reward creative activity with a suitable respect for the cultural common good and proposes a new interpretation of the digital landscape.
With contribution of Suzanne Aigrain
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License
ISBN 9789089643858
244 pages
A Peer-Reviewed Newspaper, 1(2): In/Compatible Research (2012)
Filed under journal | Tags: · archive, capitalism, copyright, floss, glitch, intellectual property, interface, internet, market, media art, media theory, new media, software
“World of the News – The world’s greatest peer-reviewed newspaper of in/compatible research presents cutting edge in/compatible research in an accessible FREE tabloid format. The newspaper partly addresses academia’s increasing demand for publication of academic peer-reviewed journal articles. Perhaps researchers need new visions of how to produce and consume research?
The content of the newspaper derives from a Ph.D. workshop and conference held in November 2011, at University of the Arts, Berlin (organised by Aarhus University in collaboration with transmediale/reSource for transmedial culture and the Vilém Flusser Archive). This provided an insight into current research from academics, practitioners, and Ph.D. researchers from an open call. Leading up to that event, and subsequent to it, a blog (this blog) has been gathering draft articles and discussions, reflecting on the key issues. This collaborative ‘peer-review’ process is further developed during the festival itself, on 01 February, 2012. So, although this may seem like old news in many ways, in terms of research practices, it breaks with some of the current academic conventions of peer-review, academic reputation, and what constitutes proper scholarly activity.”
Contributions by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Cesar Baio, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Zach Blas, Morten Breinbjerg, Geoff Cox, Lina Dokuzović, Jacob Gaboury, Kristoffer Gansing, Baruch Gottlieb, Jakob Jakobsen, Ioana Jucan, Dmytri Kleiner, Thomas Bjoernsten Kristensen, Magnus Lawrie, Giannina Lisitano, Aymeric Mansoux, Alex McLean, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti, Andrew Murphie, Jussi Parikka, Søren Pold, Morten Riis, Lasse Scherffig, Cornelia Sollfrank, Mathias Tarasiewicz, Tiziana Terranova, Marie Thompson, Nina Wenhart, Carolin Wiedemann, Siegfried Zielinski.
Edited by Geoff Cox and Christian Ulrik Andersen
Published by transmediale, Berlin, and Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, January 2012
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License
ISBN 8791810205
32 pages
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Publisher
PDF (21 MB, updated on 2019-9-27)
Comment (0)Panoptykon: Internet a prawa podstawowe. Ekspresowy przegląd problemów regulacyjnych (2011) [Polish]
Filed under report | Tags: · censorship, copyright, data retention, freedom of information, internet, law, poland
“Raport ten stanowi podsumowanie rocznego projektu o charakterze think-tankowym realizowanego we współpracy z Internet Society Polska – „Strategie dla regulacji Internetu w Polsce i Unii Europejskiej”.
Walka o „wolny i otwarty internet” staje się strategicznym frontem walki o prawa podstawowe we współczesnym świecie. Walki, która nie może się zakończyć sformułowaniem – choćby najbardziej postępowej – „karty praw internetu”. Podobnie jak w przypadku podstawowych praw człowieka i obywatela, proces kształtowania standardów nigdy nie jest raz na zawsze zakończony i raz na zawsze wygrany.
W dyskusji o standardach dotyczących tego szczególnego obszaru trzeba jednak pamiętać o jednym: internet jest zgromadzeniem, mową, prasą i informacją. Każdy atak na sieć, to bezpośredni zamach na te wolności.”
Written by Katarzyna Szymielewicz and Anna Mazgal; in cooperation with Dorota Głowacka and Józef Halbersztadt
Published by Panoptykon Foundation, Warsaw, August 2011
Creative Commons 3.0 BY Polska
68 pages
conference (September 2011, Warsaw)
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