COPYFIGHT
COPYFIGHT ARRIVES in GIRONA!
8-17 NOVEMBER 2007. CENTRE CULTURAL LA MERCÈ, GIRONA.
A project by Òscar Abril Ascaso y Elástico.
A proposal by Nau Côclea.
In collaboration with the Centre d’Art SantaMònica.
If intellectual property had always existed, humanity would never have known epics such as Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible and the Koran.
In recent years, technologies such as p2p networks, Creative Commons-type licences, and movements such as free software have prompted a historic moment of profound change in the system of intellectual property that has existed since the start of the modern age, and placed it at the gateway to a new paradigm of cultural production.
Copyfight is a network of activities that have been organised to spread information and prompt debate on the crisis of the current model of intellectual property and on the emergence of free culture at the start of the twenty-first century.
Copyfight appeared in 2005 with the organisation of two momentous events – at the CCCB and at the Centre d’Art SantaMònica in Barcelona. These featured key figures on the copyleft scene such as Lawrence Lessing, John Perry Barlow and James Wales, and led to the presentation of Creative Commons/Spain and the bibliographical translation of Free Culture into Spanish.
Copyfight, together with Nau Côclea, has now come to the Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona to create an open framework of reflection on the need for a new paradigm of royalties in cultural production.
CopyFight features a seminar on the situation of royalties and copyleft in contemporary music and the visual arts, a documentary exhibition of copyleft projects, a library with reference works, an educational programme, an inaugural concert, and other activities.
CopyFight invites different agents from Girona’s cultural scene –especially representatives of the visual arts and music – and an audience interested in taking part at two days of debate with several specialists on changes in the current intellectual property model.
PROGRAM
8 November 2007 at 9.00 p.m.
INAUGURATION AND OPENING CONCERT
Auditorium of the Centre Cultural la Mercè
Tarántula (Rock-Barcelona)
This rock group, which records on the Producciones Doradas label, came to fame throughout the country when they released their first album, which may be downloaded for free, on the Internet.
Free entrance.
EXHIBITION
9-17 NOVEMBER 2007
Projects Copyleft. Library CopyFight. Legal. Consults popular.
Free entrance.
9-10 November 2007
COPYFIGHT SEMINAR
Free entrance. Previous inscription: to send mail info@naucoclea.com, with the subject COPYFIGHT SEMINAR.
Friday, from 5.00 p.m.
FREE MUSIC AND ROYALTIES
The appearance of new free licences and the phenomenon of downloading are changing the habits of music production and consumption and of the music sector at large. Musicians, consumers, record companies and promoters are rebuilding their relationships in view of the emergence of the new paradigm.
RUBEN GINESTÓS, manager of the dpop project, an online platform for promoting music with copyleft licences.
ANI “DEFUNKID” LÓPEZ, copyleft musician, activist and coordinator of www.lamundial.net free music website.
DAVID BRAVO, alawyer specialised in royalties, coordinator of the Copyleft Foundation and author of the freely downloadable book, “Copia Este Libro” (Copy this Book)
Saturday, from 5.00 p.m.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE VISUAL ARTS
What role are new free licenses playing in artistic production? What kind of system should there be for distributing audiovisual creations on the Internet? To what extent does the current model for managing royalties benefit artists? What impact does the copyleft scene have on art?
RUBEN MARTÍNEZ, artist and member of the cultural producer “Yproductions”, and distributor of Hamaca video art.
NATXO RODRÍGUEZ, lecturer in Business Administration at the University of the Basque Country and member of the RDZ Foundation, promoter of the Kopyleft Symposia and of the Copylelft-Arte mailing list.
EVA SORIA, lawyer, graduate in History of Art from the University of Barcelona and in law from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. Head of Visual Arts at the Ramon Llull Institute and currently teaching a class on royalties on the MA in Contemporary Art at UB/IL3.
