A N N O U N C E M E N T
Economies of the Commons 2
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Paying the costs of making things free
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International conference, seminar and public evening programs
Amsterdam & Hilversum
November 11 – 13, 2010
www.ecommons.eu
Economies of the Commons 2 is a critical examination of the economics of
on-line public domain and open access resources of information, knowledge, and
media (the ‘digital commons’). The past 10 years have seen the rise of a
variety of such open content resources attracting millions of users, sometimes
on a daily basis. The impact of projects such as Wikipedia, Images of the
Future, and Europeana testify to the vibrancy of the new digital public domain.
No longer left to the exclusive domains of digital ‘insiders’, open content
resources are rapidly becoming widely used and highly popular.
While protagonists of open content praise its low-cost accessibility and
collaborative structures, critics claim it undermines the established “gate
keeping” functions of authors, the academy, and professional institutions while
lacking a reliable business model of its own. Economies of the Commons 2
provides a timely and crucial analysis of sustainable economic models that can
promote and safeguard the online public domain. We want to find out what the
new hybrid solutions are for archiving, access and reuse of on-line content
that can both create viable markets and serve the public interest in a
competitive global 21st century information economy.
Economies of the Commons 2 consists of an international seminar on Open Video
hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on November 11 in
Hilversum, a two day international conference and two public evening programs
on November 12 and 13 at De Balie, centre for culture and politics in
Amsterdam. The event builds upon the successful Economies of the Commons
conference organised in April 2008.
Organisers:
Images for the Future Consortium / Kennisland (Knowledgeland) / De Balie /
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / Institute of Network Cultures /
University of Amsterdam, Department of New Media
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11
Pre-Conference Seminar: Open Video Conference Europe
Venue: Mediacentrum, Sumatralaan 45 (Media Park), Hilversum
10.00 - 11.00
Plenary keynotes:
Ben Moskowitz (Open Video Alliance)
Peter B. Kaufman (Intelligent Television)
11.15 - 13.00
Plenary Presentations of Relevant Projects
Michael Dale (Wikimedia Foundation) – Video on Wikipedia
Jamie King (VODO) – Promoting and Distributing Creative Works Using P2P
Dolf Veenvliet (Blender Foundation) – Open Movie Projects and Software
Frans Ward (Surfnet) – Open Video in Education
Bram Tullemans (NPO) – Online Video for Dutch Public Broadcasting
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 - 1600
Parallel Working Groups:
1. Video on Wikipedia
Moderators: Ben Moskowitz & Michael Dale
2. Open Distribution Models for Broadcasting
Moderator: Peter B. Kaufman & Paul Keller
16.15 - 17.00
Closing discussion and closing remarks
Admission free - reservation required due to limited seating.
Send an e-mail to: [email protected]
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12
Economies of the Commons 2 Conference - Day 1
Venue: De Balie, Amsterdam
10.30 – 11.00
Doors open
11.00 – 11.15
Welcome and introduction to the conference:
Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie)
11.15 – 12.00
Conference Keynote Address: Constructing a Commons-Based Digital Infrastructure
Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, & Scholarly
Communication, Syracuse University, and internationally renown commons theorist.
http://library.syr.edu/about/people/staffbio/Hess_Charlotte.php
12.00 - 12.30 Invited responses and discussion:
With: Joost Poort, SEO Economic Researcher on the market structure and
regulation of infrastructures
http://www.seo.nl
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch break
13.30 – 15.30
Critique of the ‘Free and Open’
Speakers
Yann Moulier Boutang, University of Technology of Compiègne, editor of
Quarterly French Review MULTITUDES.
Sustainablility of Free and Open: from Terra Nullius to the new Commons
Dymitri Kleiner, author of Telekommunist Manifesto
www.telekommunisten.net
Simona Levi is a multidisciplinary artist born in Italy and established in
Barcelona, director of Conservas, a cultural activity centre, co-founder of
EXGAE and organiser of the Free Culture Forum Barcelona.
http://fcforum.net
Nate Tkacz, Melbourne University
Death Knell for Open Politics
http://nathanieltkacz.net/
Moderator:
Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures.
http://networkcultures.org
15.45 – 17.30
Pro-Active Archives
Speakers
Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian
Institution and Smithsonian Commons
The Smithsonian Commons
www.si.edu/commons/prototype
Sandra Fauconnier, Collection, Netherlands Media Art Institute
NIMk: Mediating Media Art
www.nimk.nl
http://catalogue.nimk.nl
http://gama-gateway.eu
Michael Murtaugh, writer, web designer, and creator of the Active Archives
Active Archives
www.activearchives.org/wiki/Main_Page
www.automatist.org
Annelies Termeer, Coordinator of Celluloid Remix at EYE Film Instituut
Netherlands
Celluloid Remix
Moderator:
Eric Kluitenberg, head of the media program at De Balie, Amsterdam, and editor
in chief of the Tactical Media Files on-line documentiation resource.
www.debalie.nl
www.tacticalmediafiles.net
17.45 – 18.05
Book launch, Telecommunist Manifesto by Dymitri Kleiner
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Friday November 12 - Evening Program:
20.30– 22.30
Public Debate: Future of the Public Domain in Europe
venue: De Balie, Amsterdam
A public debate about the future of the public domain in Europe and the role of
evolving media and information infrastructures.
Speakers:
James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the
Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He is the author
of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, and Shamans, Software
and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society.
http://james-boyle.com
www.thepublicdomain.org
Bas Savenije, Director General of the Dutch Royal Library, Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, in the Netherlands.
http://www.kb.nl/
Lucie Guibault is assistant professor of copyright and intellectual property
law at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
www.ivir.nl/staff/guibault.html
Simona Levi director of Conservas, a cultural activity centre in Barcelona,
co-founder of EXGAE, and organiser of the Free Culture Forum Barcelona.
http://fcforum.net
Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, & Scholarly
Communication, Syracuse University, and internationally renown commons theorist.
Constructing a Commons-Based Digital Infrastructure
http://library.syr.edu/about/people/staffbio/Hess_Charlotte.php
Moderator:
Paul Keller, copyright and social media expert, Knoweldgeland / Creative
Commons Netherlands,
www.kennisland.nl
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13
Economies of the Commons 2 Conference - Day 2
Venue: De Balie, Amsterdam
10.00 – 12.30
Revenue Models
Speakers:
Eelco Ferwerda, Amsterdam University Press - Publisher of Digital Products and
is responsible for all digital publications.
www.oapen.org/xtf/home?brand=oapen, http://www.aup.nl/
Harry Verwayen, responsible for the development of the business of Europeana,
an online collection of audio and visual culture.
www.europeana.eu/portal/
Jaromil and Marco Sachy:
- Denis Roio (Jaromil) is an artist, theorist and programmer currently based in
Amsterdam, working as a researcher at the Netherlands Media Art Institute.
http://jaromil.dyne.org/
- Marco Sachy, researcher, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics,
Rotterdam.
Dolf Veenvliet, Blender Foundation, 3D animator and web developer.
http://www.macouno.com/
Volker Grassmuck, researcher at the University Sao Paulo (USP), Brasil
www.vgrass.de
Moderator:
Martijn Arnoldus, Knowledgeland, Amsterdam
www.kennisland.nl
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch break
13.30 – 15.30
Open Content, Tools and Technology
Speakers
Peter B.Kaufman (USA) President and Founder of Intelligent Television
http://intelligenttelevision.com/
Ben Moskowitch, general coordinator of the Open Video Alliance, director of the
Open Video Conference and leads the iCommons video policy project.
http://openvideoalliance.org
Michael Dale, Open Media for Wikipedia
Technologies for Collaborative Archival Video
http://danm.ucsc.edu/~dale
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Projects_Overview
Rufus Pollock is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, an Associate of the Centre
for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge
and a Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
http://okfn.org
Moderator:
Morgan Currie is a researcher for the Institute of Network Cultures in
Amsterdam.
15.45 – 17.30
Materiality and Sustainability of Culture
Speakers
Jeff Ubois, researcher at Fujitsu Labs of America in Sunnyvale, California,
Intelligent Television and Thirteen/WNET in New York.
www.ubois.com
Inge Angevaare, Koninklijke BibliotheekyNational Library of the Netherlands,
coordinator of the Netherlands Digital Preservation Coalition.
www.ncdd.nl/en/index.php
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Director of Development at the State and
University Library in Aarhus, Denmark
http://en.statsbiblioteket.dk
Hans Westerhof is Deputy Director at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision.
www.imagesforthefuture.org
Moderator:
Johan Oomen is managing the R&D department of the Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision.
http://instituut.beeldengeluid.nl
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Saturday November 13 - Eevening Program:
20.30 – 23.00
Best of the oXcars
Venue: De Balie, Amsterdam
Presented by Simona Levi, EXGAE / Free Culture Forum Barcelona
From Spain, the “first international culture Awards in the digital age.”
Conservas and EXGAE (a play on the Spanish collectors society SGAE, which it so
much opposes) organise the OXCARS free culture event to reclaim our cultural
works.
Times have changed. The Internet allows information and culture to be exchanged
horizontally among all citizens, and now our means of cultural production have
to adapt to this new democracy – not the other way around. Because free and
collaborative culture is the Culture of our time, because it’s a fact, because
there’s no turning back….
EXGAE & Conservas present: The awards that will sweep the Grammys, the Goyas,
the Max…The 1st non-competitive awards in the history of Culture…The 1st
international Culture awards in the digital society…
http://exgae.net/english/the-oxcars
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