Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-27 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Florian Cramer: I'd be very interested to hear why a punk band wouldn't want to release music under a free license. For example, because it doesn't want - for political reasons - its music to end up on Spotify, Google or similar corporate

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-17 Thread Florian Cramer
Hello jaromil, First and foremost there is a confusion between the terms art and culture, which is created already in Ozgur's open letter and oddly whipped up by Aymeric. Art production is quite different from cultural production. This is mined territory as there are no whatsoever

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-17 Thread Magnus Boman
Great examples from Florian Cramer. Having run an indie record company and music publishing house for 32 years, I could add that punk attitude is something that extends far beyond any musical genre (punk included) and that incorporates a disdain from any representative of jurisprudence. The latter

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions.

2014-06-17 Thread Felix Stalder
On 06/14/2014 02:20 PM, Florian Cramer wrote: For example, because it doesn't want - for political reasons - its music to end up on Spotify, Google or similar corporate services, against which free licenses provide no means of intervention. I agree, Google co represent a version of

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-16 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Florian Cramer wrote: The punk band example is relatively harmless. For software developers, any kind of free license (free according to the criteria of FSF and Debian, respectively Open Source according to the OSI criteria) gives no whatsoever means to prevent that the

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-16 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Florian Cramer wrote: The punk band example is relatively harmless. For software developers, any kind of free license (free according to the criteria of FSF and Debian, respectively Open Source according to the OSI criteria) gives no whatsoever means to prevent that the

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-15 Thread Jaromil
dear Florian, Thanks for your criticism, it helps making this discussion resonate. Yet I see some discrepancies in your reasoning. First and foremost there is a confusion between the terms art and culture, which is created already in Ozgur's open letter and oddly whipped up by Aymeric. Art

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-14 Thread Aymeric Mansoux
Rob Myers said : Florian Cramer: If, for example, a punk band would decide that it is not releasing its recordings under a free license - for which it might have sound political arguments I'd be very interested to hear why a punk band wouldn't want to release music under a free

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-13 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Florian Cramer: I disagree with this letter since I am working for a small cultural venue (WORM in Rotterdam) myself and see a discrepancy between good intentions and not-so-good practical consequences. First of all: the release of work as

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-12 Thread Florian Cramer
I disagree with this letter since I am working for a small cultural venue (WORM in Rotterdam) myself and see a discrepancy between good intentions and not-so-good practical consequences. First of all: the release of work as free culture (according to the standards of freedomdefined.org or the FSF

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-11 Thread olivier auber
Agreed! But I'm very surprised that you didn't quote the Free Art Licence (written in July 2000). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Art_License http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ Olivier Olivier Auber +32492050697 http://perspective-numerique.net http://twitter.com/#!/OlivierAuber 2014-06-09

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-11 Thread marc garrett
Thanks, That's exactly what we have been up to... However, it would be lovely to get some help from the academics out there who say they are into the type of things that we do, but rarely include it in their writings. There's some heavy political stuff going on at the moment in UK -

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-11 Thread Jaromil
dear Ozgur, On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, ozgur k. wrote: a free letter to cultural institutions, please do not fund/exhibit/distribute/promote any non-free cultural works.(see freedomdefined.org for the definition of free cultural works) please approach your audience as peers and give them the

Re: nettime a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-11 Thread özgür k.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dear nettimers, thanks to olivier, jaromil and marc for responding to this so qucikly, which encourages me to elaborate on the issue more. i find free art license of the copyleft attiude very important since it is (AFAIK) the first and consistent