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  • From: Tom Chance <lists AT tomchance.org.uk>
  • To: a.hadzi AT gold.ac.uk
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  • Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] Creative Commons, Free Culture and Free Software: Workshop
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:41:38 +0100

Hi Adnan,

How many people are you expecting, or can you fit into the room? I'd like to
send this out to all the Remix Reading users and to a mailing list for
student activists in the South East & London, but I don't want to end up
swamping you with people :)

Regards,
Tom


On Tuesday 10 May 2005 19:59, adnan hadzi wrote:
> after meeting some of you in brighton and getting faces in my head to
> the email adresses, i would be very happy to see some of you on the
> first of june in london at the workshop we're giving at goldsmiths
> college launching a free culture chapter, please see infos below.
>
> best,
> adnan
>
> Liquid Culture 5.06
>
> Creative Commons, Free Culture and Free Software: Workshop organized by
> LiquidCulture
>
> Wednesday 1st June 2005, 5-7pm, Venue: room MB137 (Main Building)
> Admission is free, but please register in advance at
> http://liquidculture.info/5.06/register
>
> Sharing, remixing and developing culture, ideas and communication - the
> Goldsmiths experience.
>
> -------------
> The workshop will also host the launch of the Goldsmiths College's Free
> Culture local chapter - the first chapter of the Free Culture students
> movement outside the USA!
>
> The Creative Commons project (creativecommons.org) builds upon the "all
> rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some
> rights reserved" copyright. Artists and authors choose to set free their
> creative works for certain uses, thus contributing to the Creative Commons
> environment while retaining some rights on their own work.
>
> Instead of creating artificial barriers in the access to culture, Creative
> Commons artists and authors contribute to an inclusive, non-discriminatory
> and distributed creative environment where creativity can coexist with
> economic exploitation, now free from the increasingly restrictive default
> copyright rules that benefit only the big oligopolistic media corporations.
> With a voluntary, libertarian and democratic contribution to the Creative
> Commons artists and authors continuously reshape and develop the global
> cultural environment to the benefit of the community and not of a few media
> companies, thus getting back much more than what they contribute.
>
>
> Sharing and remixing of creative works is made easier by Free Software
> tools for content creation, editing and publishing; the freedom to run
> those software applications for any purpose, to adapt them to specific
> needs and to freely redistribute them for others to use or extend even more
> is a central element to the cultural richness, diversity and evolution of
> the Creative Commons environment.
>
>
> The *Liquid Culture 5.06* workshop is a starting point for the review of
> existing free culture and free software work at Goldsmiths College and for
> further development and coordination between efforts in the various
> departments, centres and units, and it will be followed by broader symposia
> in the coming months, focused on topics such as the economic viability of
> free software and free culture, the gift economy, collective intelligence
> and participatory politics.
>
> For more information visit http://liquidculture.info/5.06/
>
>
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