Lectures Program

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• Historical elements of free and open source software culture
• from free software to open source
• from FLOSS to free culture and free knowledge
• Free cultural works

You would not download a car

• Impact of standard copyright and contract laws on networked media
• Piracy
• Subculture and copyright (memes)

Appropriation and plagiarism in art and design

• Proto-copyleft art and design practices
• constraint and system art
• aesthetics of participation
• the question of authorshoip

The art of Prototyping

• Ready made tools are for ready made solutions
• Maps, visualisation and navigation

Choose your own license

• free culture and free knowledge licenses
• fragmentation within free culture and open knowledge
• license as manifesto
• free market
• towards a rediscovery of public domain

Sustainability and commercial strategies

• The issue with non commercial licenses
• openness and business strategies

Community and sustainability

• sharing is caring
• activism and social awareness
• DIY, DIWO and DITO
• crowdfunding and the commons

The ethics of design

• open data
• credits
• manipulation
• defcad