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A New Cultural Economy
caroling 2008-Jun-28 17:32:00
Strangely enough, I see the Ars Electronica festival theme for September 2008 is
"A New Cultural Economy - The Limits of Intellectual Property". It starts like
this: "The age of copyright and intellectual property as reached its expiration
date. A development that already manifested itself in the technical fundamentals
of the Internet has reared its head in the actual practices of a young
generation of users and is bringing forth a new economy of sharing and open access."
Hmm, "open access". Where have we heard that recently? The info goes on to state
this is a "core issue". It says, "What's at stake: the value of intellectual
property, freedom of information and copyright protection, big profit-making
opportunities and the vision of an open knowledge-based society that seeks to
build its new economy on the basis of creativity and innovation."
I haven't visited the website:
http://www.aec.at/culturaleconomy/
to see how they further set up the stakes. But to me it is obvious that we are
stake holders and we are involved in issues way beyond a museum and a web site.
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Caroling, www.wholeo.net