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  • From: Allison Brown <allison.brown AT otago.ac.nz>
  • To: "'Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion'" <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] reportback from IRGO unConference
  • Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:21:12 +1300

Thanks Danyl for the report. 

 

I was unfortunately unable to attend so this gives me a great overview of what was covered

 

Regards

Allison

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Danyl Strype
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 7:13 p.m.
To: cc-nz
Subject: [Cc-nz] reportback from IRGO unConference

 

Kia ora koutou

 

The IRGO unConference produced some stimulating discussion about the 

future of internet usage and the angles that researchers from various 

academic disciplines are taking towards it. I had to travel down to 

Otepoti on Monday morning, so unfortunately I missed the keynote 

address by Professor Greg Hearn (of QUT, where some of the Oz CC team 

are based), and the first few sessions.

 

I arrived in time to attend two of the afternoon panels. The first, 

Building Communities Online, was focussed mainly on how to make money 

out of online communities, whereas I would rather have heard more 

about how and why people gather in online communities and what useful 

purposes they serve beyond the financial. The second, about Mobile 

Internet, revealed that although kiwi users have a high level of 

internet adoption overall, we are behind in our adoption of mobile 

internet. This may be because of the availability of cabled services, 

and the (perceived) high cost of mobile services. Many developing 

countries have limited cable infrastructure, meaning cell phone use is 

more ubiquitous and mobile internet more intuitive.

 

The panel I put forward, Copy Rights, Copyleft, and the 

CreativeCommons, was the first session on Tuesday morning, and with no 

other panel up against it, we had good numbers, and an enthusiastic 

discussion. Thanks again to my fellow panelists; Pam McKinley, an arts 

teacher at Otago Polytech, and Alan Toy, a law lecturer at Otago 

University.

 

I showed the 2min video 'Wanna Work Together', which explains briefly 

how CC works, and answered some questions about the different license 

conditions. One or two baffling questions came up. For example, how 

are CC licenses are affected by different copyright durations across 

jurisdictions? If something is licensed under a NZ CC license, and 

goes into the public domain, can the license conditions still be 

enforced in the US, where a copyright last longer? I have to admit I 

think of a CC license as part of a conversation between artist and 

audience, and I haven't thought much about enforcement. The next 

session, on Digital Content, followed on nicely.

 

One aspect of the unConference format was the 'flashmeets', spaces for 

spontaneous discussions arising out of the pre-arranged panels. I 

participated in one flashmeet where we explored the question of 

whether open source represents a break with the political economy of 

capitalism, or a reform within it. My observation is that libre/ open 

licensing (and the collaborative, participatory productions models 

that seem to go with it) attracts people who would support each of 

those options. One can find examples of both flat, post-capitalist 

management structures and the strict bearaucratic heirarchy of 

traditional corporates contributing to libre development, sometimes 

working on the same libre project. The participation of IBM and Novell 

in Linux development is one such example. Certainly free software also 

attracts anti-corporate advocates like myself, but an across-the-board 

adoption of libre licensing of software and media would not 

necessarily require or precipitate an anti-capitalist revolution, 

although it would be a social revolution of a sort. There was also 

some discussion of levels of female participation, which is apparently 

around 20% in open source development, but higher in proprietary 

development.

 

The programme concluded with a discussion on the potential for future 

unConferences, and a keynote by Brett Telfer from Telecom, who was 

quizzed about how Telecom is planning to add various new cable and 

wireless services to Telecom's traditional landline, cell, and 

internet offerings.

 

As always with such events, some of the most productive conversations 

happened during the breaks, and over drinks after the days sessions 

were over. One project that we cooked up was a research page on 

existing business models for online media distribution that aspire to 

make it possible for artists to make a living from their art, while 

incorporating CC licensing. Potentially this could be hosted on the 

CC.org wiki.

 

I also spoke to Jordan Carter from InternetNZ about a conference on 

defending the open internet, which he wants to hold in Poneke in 2010. 

This could be an opportunity to hold another discussion on copyright 

in the era of online distribution, and bring together some people who 

are keen to work on promoting and educating about CC to do some 

brainstorming.

 

Overall, the internet unConference was a great idea, and successfully 

executed. It's a shame that KiwiCon is on in Poneke so soon after, I'd 

like to have held a session on CC there as well. If anyone is going, 

please see if there is any opportunity to bring CC into the programme.

 

RnB

Danyl

 

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