Tag Archives: Creative Commons

Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Andrei Florian | 22 September 2011, 11:55 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Drawing on the works of David Bolter and Richard Grusin and their seminal work – “Remediation: Understanding New Media”, Leah Lievrouw analyses in ‘Alternative and Activist New Media’ (Polity Press, 2011) a series of new media activism practices. Offering a wide set of study cases and examples of such…

Master New Media; a logical choice.

Daan Fliervoet | 15 September 2011, 11:00 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

The first week at the Master New Media was interesting and it gave a good view of what we will do in the upcoming year. It is nice to see that the classes consist of so many students from different nationalities and disciplines. It will be a whole new experience for me as a BA student Media en Culture.  Although…

Re-evaluating the cultural industries

Philip Breek | 12 September 2011, 1:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

With the rise of the Internet, ‘creative content’ has become an increasingly debated concept with regard to its nature, availability and legality. Within each of these respects severe changes have been seen which altogether have dealt a significant blow to global cultural industries. Whilst this has been thoroughly noted and observed by researchers tuned in to the ever-changing media landscape,…

Why artists (should) support piracy

Joep Hegger | 11 September 2011, 11:45 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Considering the severely limiting effects of current copyright and the culture industries, artists are better off supporting piracy – financially, artistically and morally.

Michael Edson on the Smithsonian Commons

Emina Sendijarevic | 15 November 2010, 3:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This is a blogpost originally posted on the Economy of the Commons Blog.

Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Commons talks about how the Institute will make all Smithsonian resources available to the public. The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of…

Economies of the Commons 2: Yann Moulier Boutang on Sustaining the Free and Open

Caroline Goralczyk | 14 November 2010, 2:43 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

In his talk at the Economies of the Commons Conference on November 12th at De Balie in Amsterdam, Yann Moulier-Boutang, editor of the Quarterly French Review MULTITUDES and professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, discussed the fate of digital commons by comparing them to the ancient commons of pre-colonial primitive accumulation, such as fishing, hunting and trade.

The Holy Grail of Digital Publishing

Joris Pekel | 21 October 2010, 2:49 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Digital reading is becoming more and more popular. In 2010, more then 12 million E-readers have been sold and still, this is only the beginning (see for yourself, how many people do you know that own a Kindle or and iPad?). Some people think that E-reading is the end of the paper book, others say that…

Non-commercial licensing on Creative Commons

Ashiq Khondker | 16 October 2010, 10:06 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,
What would life be without Bach? Far from any discussion of the aura, the only reason I have ever heard Bach is that his compositions have been relentlessly copied, passed down the generations, re-interpreted, re-adapted for new instruments (piano, electric guitar, moog), and let to remain free in the public/sonic

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Nasty Old People and a CC Licence

Joris Pekel | 09 September 2010, 10:24 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Sweden is famous for lots of reasons. Like for their food, their furniture and their women. They are also known as the biggest pirates in the world. Not on the open sea, but online. The Swedish Piratebay is one of the most used and one of the most attacked websites in the world. They were also…

#Picnic09: The Creative Commons Special in Amsterdam

Chris Castiglione | 02 October 2009, 1:16 pm | tags: , ,

The Creative Commons special, hosted by Paul Keller and Donatella Della Ratta, focused on three examples of organizations using Creative Commons (CC) in a positive (and hopefully a lucrative) way: Al Jazeera, Beeld en Geluid and VPRO.