[spectre] REGISTER NOW for the Economies of the Commons Conference, Amsterdam April 11 & 12 2008

[Eric Kluitenberg]

Conference Economies of the Commons 11 & 12 april 2008 – REGISTER NOW!

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Conference Economies of the Commons - Strategies for Sustainable  
Access and Creative Reuse of Images and Sounds Online
- De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, April 11 &  
12, 2008

De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and  
Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for  
the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international  
public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and  
opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources  
and archives.

www.ecommons.eu

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REGISTRATION AND TICKETS:

Passepartout for April 11 & 12 (including evening programs): 25 euro
Conference Day-ticket: 15 euro
Public evening programs: 5 euro

To reserve a place for the Economies of the Commons conference, please  
order your ticket on-line:
www.debalie.nl/dossierartikel.jsp?dossierid=208416&articleid=215589

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Friday April 11 – Working conference day 1 and public events

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Time: 10 -  17.30 hrs

10.00:  Opening / Welcome

10.30:  Conference Keynote: Peter Kaufman:
           The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the Digital  
Age

11.30:  Panel 1: Audiovisual Archives

13.00:  Lunch break

14.00:  Panel 2: Commons-based Peer Production

15.30:  Coffee break

15.45:  Panel 3: European Digital Library

17.15:  Wrap up first conference day

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Evening Program:

Economies of the Commons Public Keynotes & Responses
Presented in collaboration with Images for the Future

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Date: Friday April 11, 2008
Time: 20.30  - 22.30 hrs

Public Keynote 1:  Rick Prelinger

Public Keynote 2:  David Bollier

Panel discussion with Prelinger, Bollier and Representatives of Images  
of the Future consortium

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Continuous:
Screening block: Steal This Film / Good Copy, Bad Copy / Panorama  
Ephemera

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Saturday April 12  - Working conference day 2 and public events

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Time: 11 - 18.00 hrs

11.00:  Panel 4: Uncommon Business Models

12.30:  Lunch Break

13.30:  Panel 5: Intangible Cultural Heritage

15.00:  Coffee Break

15.15:  Panel 6: Professional Cultural Producers

16.45:  Coffee Break

17.00:  Report from the Legal Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights

17.30:  Closing Session / Conference wrap up

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Evening Program:

Public screening, live cinema & performance program
Presented in collaboration with Cinema De Balie

Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
Date: Saturday April 12, 2008
Time: 21.00 - 23.30

With:
2 short films by Peter Tscherkassky
Narrated screening program by Rick Prelinger ‘Films on the mass media’
Commons based remix music / sound performances
Nicholas Proost - Gravity
Other short films tba

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Continuous:
Screening block: Steal This Film / Good Copy, Bad Copy / Panorama  
Ephemera

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About Economies of the Commons

De Balie in Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and  
Vision in Hilversum, in collaboration with Knowledgeland, Images for  
the Future, and Virtual Platform, organise a two-day international  
public working conference on the economies, sustainability, and  
opportunities for creative reuse of these public audiovisual resources  
and archives.

The Economies of the Commons conference will focus on three core  
issues: strategies for sustainability, new modes of value creation,  
and the potentials for creative reuse around the digital commons. Our  
main questions are:
- What kinds of strategies are available to facilitate the growth of  
these emerging public knowledge resources, and guarantee their longer- 
term sustainability?
- How is value created around the emerging digital commons, and how  
can this value be capitalised on for the public good?
- How can these resources be activated as a creative productive force  
for contemporary culture, and how can the reuse of these enormously  
rich resources be facilitated and stimulated?

The conference brings together a highly international group of  
specialists, including Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Rick  
Prelinger (Prelinger Archives), Roei Amit (INA), Kenneth Goldsmith  
(UbuWeb), Anthony McCann (Hallam University), Hubert Best (Best &  
Soames / FOCAL), Lucie Guibault (University of Amsterdam), Florian  
Schneider (Kein.tv) David Bollier (On The Commons), and many others.

The Economies of the Commons conference addresses a range of target  
groups that do not regularly meet each other. These include:  
(broadcast) media professionals, representatives from cultural  
heritage organisations, internet entrepreneurs, ethnomusicologists,  
musicians and representatives of the music industry, media activists,  
researchers in the domains of internet law, economy, information  
science, p2p file sharing activists, policy makers, and professionals  
from the field of art and culture.

A web dossier has been set up that provides further information on the  
conference program and side events, program updates, and information  
on speakers and highlighted case studies, as well as general  
background and research materials. This dossier can be found at:
www.ecommons.eu

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Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights
- The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, April 10,  
2008

About the Seminar on Audiovisual Archives and Intellectual Property  
Rights:
A one-day seminar at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in  
Hilversum, on Intellectual Property Rights issues in the digital  
audiovisual domain, precedes the conference on Thursday April 10, the  
results of which will feed into the conference program.

Seminar April 10: Admission free (capacity is limited, advance  
reservation is strongly recommended!)

For any other enquiry about the program, please send an e-mail to:
erick at balie.nl