Culture, Conflict and Control in the Infosphere
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From "The Future of Computer Arts"
Edited by Marina Grzinic
Published by MASKA, Ljubljana MKC, Maribor 2004
World-Information.Org
From "The Future of Computer Arts"
Edited by Marina Grzinic
Published by MASKA, Ljubljana MKC, Maribor 2004
World Summit on the Information Society - Success or Failure?
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60 government leaders, officials from 175 countries and another 10,000 representatives from civil society, media, business and technology gathered in Geneva in December 2003 for a three-day World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organized by United Nations and International Telecommunication Union.
World-Information.Org
60 government leaders, officials from 175 countries and another 10,000 representatives from civil society, media, business and technology gathered in Geneva in December 2003 for a three-day World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organized by United Nations and International Telecommunication Union.
Information Needs Are Legitimate
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Interview with Kay Raseroka, President of IFLA (International Association of Library Associations) and Director of Library Services at the University of Botswana on copyright issues in a library context.
World-Information.Org
Interview with Kay Raseroka, President of IFLA (International Association of Library Associations) and Director of Library Services at the University of Botswana on copyright issues in a library context.
World Summit on the Information Society: Infopaper Released
World-Information.Org
Even though not many would expect the summit in Geneva to lay the foundations for a new and different Information Society the event has a symbolic meaning.
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Even though not many would expect the summit in Geneva to lay the foundations for a new and different Information Society the event has a symbolic meaning.
The Problem with WSIS
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
We begin with a tale of two terms: the well aired and well known "Information Society", and its rather furtive and less well known relation, "intellectual property" (IP).
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
We begin with a tale of two terms: the well aired and well known "Information Society", and its rather furtive and less well known relation, "intellectual property" (IP).
Preserving the Commons in the New Information Order
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Increasingly..it is becoming clear that there is another sector that is at least as important to our well-being..as markets and the state. This sector is the commons.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Increasingly..it is becoming clear that there is another sector that is at least as important to our well-being..as markets and the state. This sector is the commons.
The Injustice of Intellectual Property
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Aside from using the criminal law to police their monopolies, intellectual property owners also sermonize to the rest of us on what we should and should not be doing.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Aside from using the criminal law to police their monopolies, intellectual property owners also sermonize to the rest of us on what we should and should not be doing.
Biopiracy: Need to Change Western IPR Systems
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Nothing less than an overhaul of Western style IPR systems with their intrinsic weaknesses will stop the epidemic of biopiracy.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Nothing less than an overhaul of Western style IPR systems with their intrinsic weaknesses will stop the epidemic of biopiracy.
Remember: Mimesis is a Form Of Creativity: About Music and Equal Opportunities in the Era of the Digital Sample
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
While electronic music in the beginning of the nineties was formatted largely by the aesthetics of repetition, its transforming structure nowadays can be found in the copy.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
While electronic music in the beginning of the nineties was formatted largely by the aesthetics of repetition, its transforming structure nowadays can be found in the copy.
Why You Should Distrust „Trusted Computing“
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Wouldn‘t it be nice if you were able to trust your computer? ..Initiatives for “Trusted” and “Trustworthy Computing” imply that they will turn computers into just that kind of machine. In fact, there are good reasons to distrust them.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Wouldn‘t it be nice if you were able to trust your computer? ..Initiatives for “Trusted” and “Trustworthy Computing” imply that they will turn computers into just that kind of machine. In fact, there are good reasons to distrust them.
Open access to science and scholarship
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
For readers, journals surpassed books for learning quickly about the recent work of others. For authors, journals surpassed books for sharing new work quickly with the wider world and, above all, for establishing priority over other scientists working on the same problem.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
For readers, journals surpassed books for learning quickly about the recent work of others. For authors, journals surpassed books for sharing new work quickly with the wider world and, above all, for establishing priority over other scientists working on the same problem.
First World IP Regimes Slow China's Modernization
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
China does not have access to the knowledge it needs in fields that are critical to development.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
China does not have access to the knowledge it needs in fields that are critical to development.
Developing Countries and IP Policy
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
In the context of a global “information” economy propelled increasingly by knowledge-based industries, the protection of ideas and innovations has become a central priority in the competitive strategies of many powerful economic actors.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
In the context of a global “information” economy propelled increasingly by knowledge-based industries, the protection of ideas and innovations has become a central priority in the competitive strategies of many powerful economic actors.
GNUbalisation. Open Source in India
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
But, one could say, FLOSS is not just about getting software at a cheaper price. It is about sharing, helping others, and benefitting in the process. It is about a different way of collaborating to solve problems. This could have implications for other spheres of life.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
But, one could say, FLOSS is not just about getting software at a cheaper price. It is about sharing, helping others, and benefitting in the process. It is about a different way of collaborating to solve problems. This could have implications for other spheres of life.
The Emperor's Sword: Art under WIPO
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
One function of copyright today is to make artists the allies of the established order.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
One function of copyright today is to make artists the allies of the established order.
The Absurdity of Software Patents
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Software patents have a dubious legal basis, are unworkable, and hamper industrial growth.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
Software patents have a dubious legal basis, are unworkable, and hamper industrial growth.
Why do intellectual property issues matter?
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
We have to develop, discuss and implement models how to create and share digital information that are open and dynamic. Taking full advantage of the Internet's empowering capacities, the commons is based on the very idea that information can be copied and distributed easily and cheaply by everyone.
Editorial of World-Information Special IP Edition, Geneva 2003.
World-Information Special IP Edition Geneva 2003
We have to develop, discuss and implement models how to create and share digital information that are open and dynamic. Taking full advantage of the Internet's empowering capacities, the commons is based on the very idea that information can be copied and distributed easily and cheaply by everyone.
Editorial of World-Information Special IP Edition, Geneva 2003.
Libraries and the Information Commons - New Opportunities to Participate in the Information Society
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Past President of the American Library Association Nancy Kranich on the status quo and future of libraries in participating in the information commons.
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Past President of the American Library Association Nancy Kranich on the status quo and future of libraries in participating in the information commons.
Software Patents: The Limits of IP
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Software patents have a dubious legal basis, are unworkable, and hamper industrial growth“, says Arun Mehta, Indian IT consultant and media activist in an article soon to be published."
World-Information.Org
Software patents have a dubious legal basis, are unworkable, and hamper industrial growth“, says Arun Mehta, Indian IT consultant and media activist in an article soon to be published."
Which Democracy in a Post-Political Age?
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
Chantal Mouffe examines the role, potential and dangers of upcoming technologies, especially new media, in todays democratic processes. Abstract of talk at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 4, 2003.
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
Chantal Mouffe examines the role, potential and dangers of upcoming technologies, especially new media, in todays democratic processes. Abstract of talk at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 4, 2003.
A Virtual World is Possible: From Tactical Media to Digital Multitudes
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
The presentation starts with the current strategy debates of the so-called "anti-globalisation movement", the biggest emerging political force for decades. In Part II Lovink and Schneider discuss strategies of critical new media culture in the post-speculative phase after dotcommania. Four phases of the global movement are becoming visible, all of which have distinct political, artistic and aesthetic qualities: (a) The 90s and tactical media activism (b) 99-01: The period of big mobilizations (c) Confusion and resignation after 9/11 (d) Present challenge: liquidate the regressive third period of marginal moral protest
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
The presentation starts with the current strategy debates of the so-called "anti-globalisation movement", the biggest emerging political force for decades. In Part II Lovink and Schneider discuss strategies of critical new media culture in the post-speculative phase after dotcommania. Four phases of the global movement are becoming visible, all of which have distinct political, artistic and aesthetic qualities: (a) The 90s and tactical media activism (b) 99-01: The period of big mobilizations (c) Confusion and resignation after 9/11 (d) Present challenge: liquidate the regressive third period of marginal moral protest
The Dark Side of the Multitude
Dark Markets
Abstract of lecture at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 4, 2003.
Dark Markets
Abstract of lecture at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 4, 2003.
Byzantium 550 AD
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
A talk prepared for the Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
A talk prepared for the Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003
Market-ideology, Semiocapitalism and the Digital Cognitariat
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
At the final stage of the anti-globalization movement Berardi Bifo Franco both analyzes the dynamics of class forces in the last decades and the "movement". He predicts other, less ethically inspired fights in an inevitable struggle against Bush & Berlusconi´s National Liberalism that in his opinion produces ignorance and depression. Abstract of talk at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003
Non Stop Future, Dark Markets
At the final stage of the anti-globalization movement Berardi Bifo Franco both analyzes the dynamics of class forces in the last decades and the "movement". He predicts other, less ethically inspired fights in an inevitable struggle against Bush & Berlusconi´s National Liberalism that in his opinion produces ignorance and depression. Abstract of talk at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003
After the NGO Revolution: Non-state actors at a CrossRoads
Dark Markets
However difficult as a political goal, re-constructing the state seems vastly more realistic, than ineffective and sometimes quixotic attempts to build "civil society" where most citizens are, for perfectly valid reasons, disinclined to contribute their time or money.
Abstract of lecture at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003
Dark Markets
However difficult as a political goal, re-constructing the state seems vastly more realistic, than ineffective and sometimes quixotic attempts to build "civil society" where most citizens are, for perfectly valid reasons, disinclined to contribute their time or money.
Abstract of lecture at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003
Whose Democracy? Information Flows, NGOs and the Predicament of Developing States.
Dark Markets
This talk considers the paradoxical role played by NGOs in developing civic infrastructures, and suggests that greater focus needs to be placed by NGOs on securing intellectual property rights for developing states as the condition of political and economic sovereignty within informational and biotech economies.
Abstract of talk at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003.
Dark Markets
This talk considers the paradoxical role played by NGOs in developing civic infrastructures, and suggests that greater focus needs to be placed by NGOs on securing intellectual property rights for developing states as the condition of political and economic sovereignty within informational and biotech economies.
Abstract of talk at Dark Markets Conference, Vienna, October 3, 2003.
Becoming Nike? the Fake Behind the Swoosh
Non Stop Future, Nikeground
Public Netbase and 0100101110101101.ORG proclaim the world's first Nike Square
Vienna, October 2003
Non Stop Future, Nikeground
Public Netbase and 0100101110101101.ORG proclaim the world's first Nike Square
Vienna, October 2003
Speech at the World Summit of the Information Society, Geneva, 16 July 2003
World Information Special City Edition Tunis 2005
The benefit of computers is that it's easier to copy and manipulate information. Corporations are using two kinds of imposed monopolies to deny you this benefit.
World Information Special City Edition Tunis 2005
The benefit of computers is that it's easier to copy and manipulate information. Corporations are using two kinds of imposed monopolies to deny you this benefit.
Weapons of Mass Deception
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On 28 July 2003 PR Watch editors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber will present their new book "Weapons of Mass Deception". World-Information has received a copy in advance and read about how public relations campaigns successfully sold the Iraqi war to the American public.
World-Information.Org
On 28 July 2003 PR Watch editors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber will present their new book "Weapons of Mass Deception". World-Information has received a copy in advance and read about how public relations campaigns successfully sold the Iraqi war to the American public.
Gray Markets and Information Warlords
Non Stop Future, Open Cultures
The speech takes a deeper look on the borders between organized criminality and hobbyist law-breaking in the field of music piracy. Open Cultures – Free Flows of Information and the Politics of the Commons
Conference, Vienna, June 05, 2003
Non Stop Future, Open Cultures
The speech takes a deeper look on the borders between organized criminality and hobbyist law-breaking in the field of music piracy. Open Cultures – Free Flows of Information and the Politics of the Commons
Conference, Vienna, June 05, 2003
FUTURE NON STOP
...is a semantically connected content repository, which contains documents on 15 years of new practices in art and media.Based on an extensive archive going back to 1994 the site collects materials that serve as important reference documents in the field of new media, politics, and art and makes them accessible to a wider public. Instead of a hierarchically structured archive an experimental navigation interface opens up new ways to explore large information nodes. Documents are associated by a range of tag that allow to filter relevance according to topics and issue relations. ASCR, short for Advanced Semantic Content Repository, is the open source information architecture and "editing back end" of Future Non Stop.
Future Non Stop is a project of:
Institute for New Culture Technologies/ t0.
Institute for New Culture Technolgies / t0
