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Pirate and CC video online

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Video from the Revolution or Reform debate here:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4461570/Nordic_Cultural_Commons_panel_on_Copyright
Also on YouTube in parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AF0ls0oNYA
and video on the Nordic Creative Commons Conference soon here:
http://www.hiit.fi/nccc/videos.html

Topics & questions for the debate

You can suggest questions and topics for the Revolution or reform panel tomorrow in this wiki.

Revolution or reform debate

Reformers of the copyright system
… or lazy nerds who want everything for free?
Turning artificial scarcity into abundance
… or stealing from the starving artist?
End of creativity
… or the start of a global IPR revolution?
REVOLUTION OR REFORM
- debate on pirate movement and copyright reformism
Tuesday 21st [...]

Marillion: Whatever is wrong with you

The band Marillion has been using p2p tactics for some time. The new album Happiness is the Road was mainly financed by the fans by pre-ordering the album in a special version: if one made the pre-order before March 2008 one’s name will be included in the album credits. Quite cool.
Now they have a [...]

Self-organisation/Counter-economic strategies

The book is now available as pdf, here:
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4151201/Superflex_Selforganisation.4151201.TPB.torrent
Contents:
TEPITO: a barrio of artisans in light of global piracy by Alfonso Hernández
The Right to Mary Sue by Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder
The political action of the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil by Bruno Konder Comparato
The architecture of innovation By Lawrence Lessig
Strategies of Transition: Parallelism and Fragmentation in [...]

Piraattipuolue

Suomeenkin ollaan perustamassa Piraattipuoluetta, 24.-25.5. pidetään perustava kokous. Hyvä

Wikiworld

We – Juha Suoranta & I – have just published an open access book entitled Wikiworld – Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media. Why today? Because it is Minna Canth day!
Please feel free to download and link the book from http://wikiworld.wordpress.com
WIKIWORLD
Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media
In the digital world of learning [...]

Work-in-progress

A four-staged analysis of levels of freedom in media & education using P2P or social media applications, as presented in the seminar “The political economy of peer production“.

icon for podpress  Freedoms in P2P media and education: Download