Nordic Cultural Commons Conference 2008
November 10th, 2008
1. Reference
Nordic Cultural Commons Conference 2008
October 22th – 23th
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.hiit.fi/nccc/
2. Why it is important for me
Internet and the new media has made possible to create and distribute culture and knoweldge faster, cheaper and globally. Now it is possible to collaborate across borders and contexts, to access massive amounts of information and cultural works, to remix and recreate using almost infinitely available bits of knowledge.
This technical possibilities have created new ways of thinking around intelectual and cultural propierty rights. Creative commons licenses, open source software and content, user created content, accidental profits, the long tail, are concepts of the avantgarde of a new way of thinking. This decentralized way of working, with fairness, knowledge advance and the common good at its core (instead of profits and increased utility), can be a good applied metaphor of how a sustainable society could work. Knowledge and content freedom could also be argued to be positive for a societal and economic sustainability.
3. Notes
Mike Linksvayer:
Piracy promotes the established content and cultural hegemony. Piracy is not about creation. We should move from piracy to creative communities. Eat your own dog food, use yourself the open tools.
Victor Stone:
Remixing = creating = sampling = coping. The sampling generation.
John Buckman:
Interesting bookmooch project. Changin from a profit oriented company to generating profit “by accident”.
Nicklas lundblad:
Creativity as mutation and selection, an incremental innovation. Creativity theory looking cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Do users generate and creators create? Destroy the myth of creators as illuminated geniuses. Change the semantics from user generated to user created content, from artist created to corporate generated content.
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