Culture Circulatory System Talk with Mirek Filiciak, Alek Tarkowski Media The greatest risk involved in the whole debate is absolute polarisation and utter simplification, while forgetting that freedom entails responsibility. It would be a shame to waste the opportunities offered to culture by the internet, but if that does end up happening, it won’t be the fault of just one side.
Wikianarchy Ruben Maes Media The following debate on freedom in culture took place during the European Culture Congress in September 2011 in Wrocław
Let’s meet in the public domain BY Alek Tarkowski Media Celebrating the anniversary of a dozen of authors’ deaths might seem strange. But it is not their death that is celebrated, but the fact that their works have become genuine public goods
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:P as in Piracy BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media The disruption of the existing system of gatekeepers, and along with it the ‘raison d’être’ of many people and companies, has made the debate on piracy more controversial today than ever before
THE INFOHOLIC: Digitisation:Quantity Does Not Have a Quality All of Its Own BY Jarosław Lipszyc Media Good luck finding a way to read text files saved on a computer twenty years ago. Simply locating a working 5.25” floppy disk drive would be a miracle in itself
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:C as in Creative Commons BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media The idea of ‘free culture’ stresses the notion that intellectual property laws are not just the domain of nuance-loving lawyers, but an issue that should concern all of us
