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remix world: towards a global digital commonsA 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".
What does a totalitarian regime expect from its artists? Jane Portal explores the role of art in North Korea. Read the rest of this post...
Like a cuckoo in the nest, Microsoft's arrival in the Creative Commons movement threatens trouble in the free culture family. In Rio de Janeiro for the iSummit, Becky Hogge hopes that iCommons can restore the movement's cool. Read the rest of this post...
As hosts of the iCommons summit, can Brazil lead the way towards a global commons? Sam Howard-Spink finds inspiration and parallels in the 1960s cultural movement, "Tropicalia". Read the rest of this post...
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. Read the rest of this post...
Can a cultural commons in the digital age free us from the "mystifying power" of genius? Rosemary Bechler investigates a creative legacy linking Samuel Johnson, the Romantics, and Paul McCartney Read the rest of this post...
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. Read the rest of this post...
An enriching form of individual creativity and technology is inventing a new global space: the digital commons. Elizabeth Stark introduces a debate that explores the possibilities and challenges of a culture without borders - or owners. Read the rest of this post...
Tony Curzon Price, Becky Hogge and Sam Howard Spink are blogging from the iCommons iSummit in Rio this weekend, 23-25 June 2006
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is an American charity founded by the radical libertarian legal scholar, Lawrence Lessig. Its aim is to help cultural creators give up some of their copyrights by creating the required legal framework of licenses. Why would a cultural creator do that? Because spreading a message, establishing and nourishing a reputation, having an audience, participating in the commonwealth of cultural production, may all be more important than the elusive royalty stream.
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