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  • From: Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl>
  • To: cc-europe AT lists.ibiblio.org, cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [CC-Europe] Call for Participation - Economies of the Commons 2: Paying the costs of making things free - 12-13 November, Amsterdam
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:19:48 +0200

Economies of the Commons 2 - Paying the costs of making things free

www.ecommons.eu
International conference, seminar and public evening programs

Conference dates: 12-13 November 2010. De Balie, Amsterdam
Pre-conference: November 11. Hilversum (on collaboration with the Open Video
Alliance)

Economies of the Commons 2 is a critical examination of the economics of
on-line public domain and open access resources of information, knowledge,
and media (the ‘digital commons’). The past 10 years have seen the rise of a
variety of such open content resources attracting millions of users,
sometimes on a daily basis. The impact of projects such as Wikipedia, Images
of the Future, and Europeana testify to the vibrancy of the new digital
public domain. No longer left to the exclusive domains of digital
‘insiders’, open content resources are rapidly becoming widely used and
highly popular.

While protagonists of open content praise its low-cost accessibility and
collaborative structures, critics claim it undermines the established “gate
keeping” functions of authors, the academy, and professional institutions
while lacking a reliable business model of its own. Economies of the Commons
2 provides a timely and crucial analysis of sustainable economic models that
can promote and safeguard the online public domain. We want to find out what
the new hybrid solutions are for archiving, access and reuse of on-line
content that can both create viable markets and serve the public interest in
a competitive global 21st century information economy.

Economies of the Commons 2 consists of an international seminar on Open Video
hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on November 11 in
Hilversum, a two day international conference and two public evening programs
on November 12 and 13 at De Balie, centre for culture and politics in
Amsterdam. The event builds upon the successful Economies of the Commons
conference organised in April 2008.

Confirmed speakers include:

Charlotte Hess (Syracuse University – Keynote), Ben Moskowitz (Open Video
Alliance), Simona Levi (Free Culture Forum), Bas Savenije (KB National
library of the Netherlands), Yann Moulier Boutang (Multitudes), Peter B.
Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Harry Verwayen (Europeana), James Boyle
(Duke University), Jeff Ubois (DTN), Sandra Fauconnier (NIMK), Dymitri
Kleiner (Telekommunisten), Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (Royal Library
Denmark), Nathaniel Tkacz (University of Melbourne), a.o.

Organisers:

Images for the Future Consortium / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
/ De Balie / Knowledgeland / Institute of Network Cultures / University of
Amsterdam.

For detailed program information check our website:

www.ecommons.eu


  • [CC-Europe] Call for Participation - Economies of the Commons 2: Paying the costs of making things free - 12-13 November, Amsterdam, Paul Keller, 10/27/2010

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