Creative Commons - Belgium

[nicolas malevé <copy.cult AT constantvzw.com>]

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+ S T I T C H & S P L I T 
+ Selves and Territories in Science Fiction: 
+ Films, talks, meetings, database around and about science fiction.
+ MuHKA_media, Antwerp
+ http://www.stitch-and-split.org
+ info: http://www.muhka.be

+ 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