[Cc-be] Cory Doctorow and the Broadcast Flag in Antwerp, January 24 at 19:30

nicolas malevé copy.cult at constantvzw.com
Thu Jan 5 12:39:48 EST 2006


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+ S T I T C H & S P L I T 
+ Selves and Territories in Science Fiction: 
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+ MuHKA_media, Antwerp
+ http://www.stitch-and-split.org
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+ When:  January 24 at 19:30
+ Where: Zalen MuHKA_media, Waalse Kaai 47, 2000 Antwerp (building FotoMuseum) 

After Barcelona (Fundacio Antoni Tapies), Sevilla (Universidad internacional de Andalucia),  the third episode of Stitch and Split is taking place in Antwerp,for a series of events

+ Lecture
+ Don't let Hollywood hijack your rights by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer publishing his novels under Creative Commons, activist, and tech person, he  was the Director of European Affairs for the Electonic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) and co-editor of the world famous techy blog Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net)
In his lecture Doctorow will show you that American entertainment companies say they're fighting piracy, but in fact they're going at it by punishing the innocent to get at the guilty. A pan-European digital-television restrictions proposal will turn the studios from companies that can control copying of movies into companies that can control the design of all DTV devices, that get to define how big your family is allowed to be, that get to take away all the rights you get under copyright law and sell them back to you, one painful, expensive dribble at a time.It's not really a business plan: more like a urinary tract infection. Europe's coming Broadcast Flag will ban open source for DTV, break the devices in your living room, and turn you into a truly captive audience. Get your torch and pitchfork, for this genuinely sucks -- and you shouldn't take it lying down! 

+ Screenings
–The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn, 1996, 3'20, USA
–Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985, 131', UK 



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