remix world: towards a global digital commons: all articles

A rich and surprising fusion of word, sound and image is generating a new, transcultural creative space: the digital commons. It's also free – and that provokes opposition from those with legal, business or artistic interests in keeping culture under copyright. openDemocracy writers map the history, potential and barriers of the new "remix world".

Tuesday 27th June

Art under control in North Korea

Jane Portal, 27 June 2006

What does a totalitarian regime expect from its artists? Jane Portal explores the role of art in North Korea.

Monday 26th June

What moves a movement?

Becky Hogge, 26 June 2006

Thursday 22nd June

Tropicalia and the quest for a cultural commons

Sam HowardSpink, 22 June 2006

Wednesday 21st June

The global digital commons and other unlikely tales

David M Berry, 21 June 2006

The commons movement may be groundbreaking and innovative but as it hurtles towards a global model, it risks the privatisation of culture and a disregard for national boundaries, says David M Berry.

Tuesday 20th June

Education and development on the high seas of copyright infringement

Debora Halbert, Copy South, Colin Darch, and Alan Story, 20 June 2006

When is a pirate not a pirate? When he's trying to get an education. Alan Story, Colin Darch and Debora Halbert track the course of the criminalisation of copyright infringement from western bedrooms to the university campuses of the developing world.