Culture of Free Kickoff

The battle of copyright around free culture, copyright and public domain.

Morning (10:20-12:00)

The morning session is made to provide everyone with a crash course and head start on several issues that are revolve around the idea of free culture, such as copyright infringement, file sharing, design by community, free/libre and open source software, pirate politics, free economics, appropriation art, censorship, remix culture, etc. Two lectures are scheduled (Aymeric Mansoux, Eric Kluitenberg) so as to both give some historical context to these issues and highlight their relevance with contemporary technological social, economic and political concerns.

More than being just a passive broadcasting moment, these lectures are meant to be a space of dialogue.

Afternoon (13:00-17:30)

The Afternoon is split into two stages: a mini research sprint, a series of lightning presentations.

Research sprint (13:00-16:00)

1. A list of research topics is given to the students on an etherpad:
   • Appropriation art
   • The commons
   • Free labour
   • Remix culture
   • Disney and US Copyright laws
   • DIY and DIWO
   • Design by community
   • Public domain
   • Distribution and Publishing
   • Licenses
   • Patent laws
   • Seeds and intellectual property
   • Non commercial usage
   • Gift economy
   • Crowdsourcing and the commons
   • Copyleft
   • Copyright history
   • Open source UNIX systems
   • Freemium economics
   • Pirate Party
   • File sharing
   • Proprietary software
   • Plagiarism
   • Anti copyright
   • Freedom of speech
   • Internet history
2. Students organize themselves by groups of 4-5, each group focusing on one research topic.
3. Students are given part of the afternoon to present a personal point of view on the specific topic specifically trying to build up from the analysis of personal stories towards the generalisation of the issues raised and their impact on the society. The research is expected to be thoroughly documented, all sources must be carefully quoted.

Lightning Presentations (16:00-17:30)

At the end of the afternoon, each group has 10 minutes to present their research using the media of their choice.

A PDF with snapshots of the presentations via a not so sharp phone camera can be accessed here: http://crosslab.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/images/4/49/Snapshots_06_05_2013.pdf