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This is the wiki for CopyCult and the Original Si(g)n, a project initiated by Constant(http://www.constantvzw.com).

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Table of contents
1 Shortcuts
2 Starting points
3 Project contents

3.1 A bit of context...
3.2 Questions
3.3 Categories
3.4 Actions
3.5 Texts and spoken words

4 Misc
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Shortcuts

Resources for the PZ thematic project, PZ Brussels Meeting

Resources for mapping: MappingRessources

For the feminist art cartography project, start here: GendeRhizome, design samples see GenderArtNetSamples, WordAreas, GenderArtNetPresentation, ClujNapocaPresentations, GenderArtNetPresentationBologna

If you are looking for the Active Archive pages, start here: Active Archive

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Starting points


  • the complexity of intellectual property laws leads to the proliferation of technical terms and we need a way to try to understand them.
  • the will, our will, to summarize what we have learned so far.
  • to find a language to describe it, a language to reintroduce the heart of the question(creation, art, ???) back into the debate. So often crucial questions such as the possibility to create and distribute cultural goods, creations, writings and songs disapear behind the abstraction of the juridical jargon.
  • the need to involve others in the process of writing, this wiki is open for external contributions, suggestions, annotations...
  • the need to gather experience from the different events/protests/actions/expos, etc, we attend with various levels of writings(sketches, rough notes, longer essays with different versions)
  • the need to try with concrete applications of our ideas on free software and free licenses in art and culture

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Project contents

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A bit of context...


All the starting points mentionned above are in our minds since a long time. Coming back from the Berlin conference WOS (http://www.wizards-of-os.org/index.php), we felt like we had to make something more than a report. What we have heard and seen (http://www.constant.irisnet.be/gallery/WOS) there was a clear and stimulating illustration of all the questions/problems and solutions we encountered in events dealing with the problematics of the alternative to copyrights and free software.

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Questions


  • Is the open source philosophical discourse bound to a Western model? Bound to the Western ideal of Science as the master narrative for the century to come?(the intro on the WOS'site begins with this quote from Eben Moglen: "The principle of Western science, the principle of free software, and the principle of non-exclusion are the path of development for the twenty-first century.")
  • How can we deal on the long term with the idea of copyleft, knowing that it inherits its definition of authorship from copyright? Don't we need to question more in depth the notion of authorship? To speculate on other alternatives? To reclaim intellectual productions back into the public domain?
  • Why so few women and why is this gender issue not openly on the agenda of an open movement?
  • How far can we work in the open model of collaboration without losing interoperability, coherence? Is open source software a Common? And if so, is it possible to apply to its production the principle of the "Comedy of the commons"("the more the merrier")? In short, is this model scalable? And if yes, which structures have to be developed/maintained/rethought ?
  • for more questions go here questions about free art licences
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Categories

These questions will serve as context for the first top categories of the CopyCultGlossary:

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Actions

To think is good but to experiment our ideas is better. On this wiki, you'll find additionnally, informations about workshops we are giving. On 6th of July 2004 in Majorca, we have given a workshop titled WebDesignWithFreeSoftware (http://www.stormy-weather.be/phpwiki/index.php/WebDesignWithFreeSoftware). And also, Open Content Workshop (http://steps.workshop1.becoming.be/page.php?label=steps), ... Events we participate in: Kopyleft (http://kopyleft.net/) , Copyfight (http://www.elastico.net/copyfight/)..., and archive/dissemination projects like radioswap.net (http://www.radioswap.net) and Active Archive...Outils en réseau (IUT)

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Texts and spoken words

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Misc

letter to EU representatives

ScribusNotes

SpareHardwareBasement

Use Case Radio Programmer

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