[rohrpost] DIY Databasing! - Conference in September

[Veronika Leiner]

DIY Databasing! - Radio FRO - Conference, Workshops and Presentations *
*Saturday, 3. September and Sunday, 4. September 2005 *
*within the frame of Ars Electronica 2005 – Hybrid – living in paradox*

*Conference “DIY Databasing! Technical and legal aspects of Free Access 
to Information in so-called Information Society”*

Sunday, 04. September 2005, 10.30 – 15.00
Ars Electronica Center, Sky Media Loft, Linz - Austria

*Panel A: 10.30 – 12.30*
*Radical Innovation.*
In May 2005 the European Commission in its Communication on the 
transition from analogue to digital broadcasting demanded to accelerate 
the phasing out of analogue TV and Radio (AM/FM) at least until 2012, 
better until 2010. The switchover to digital should stimulate innovation 
and growth of the consumer equipment market, and contribute to the 
renewed Lisbon agenda. As planned the former analogue frequencies shall 
by then be used for “content casting” – however, concerning digital 
radio there is still no ruling technology in Europe. Although the 
already declared dead DAB-Standard (Digital Audio Broadcasting) is 
currently experiencing its resurrection there are several questions 
still not answered: there is a massive in-door reception problem with 
DAB, the limitation to not more than 10 Programms etc. The 
digitalisation of radio implies special challenges to small-scale local 
community broadcasters like expensive technologies or large-scale 
coverage. At the same time, digitalisation will make possible new 
services like radio on demand, which are especially interesting for 
special interest programs provided by free media. The discussion will 
focus on scenarios and alternatives of digitalisation for community media.

Pieter de Wit, OLON (Organisation for local Broadcasters in the 
Netherlands) (NL)
Peter Reindl, RTR (Austrian Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications 
and Broadcasting) (A)
N.N., European Commission
Siriol Evans, DRM-(Digital Radio Mondial)-Consortium (tbc)
Host: Veronika Leiner, Radio FRO (A)


*Panel B: 13.00 – 15.00*
*(No) Free Access to Information in so-called “Information Society“?*
podCasting and video on demand are the next steps leading to the 
fulfilment of the predicted ”Information Society”. These formats are 
pushing the personalisation of media appearance and offer new chances 
especially for Free Media. But due to the new EU Copyright concept the 
question arises if these promising new technologies won´t mainly have 
their application in commercial environments. This politico-cultural 
discussion of knowledge transfer via the world wide web will deal with 
the following questions: How can public, cultural and intellectual 
interest be protected in the light of new developments in Copyright? 
Which alternatives can be presented to the prevailing idea of Digital 
Rights Management, which has recently been questioned by the EU 
Parliament, while underlining the importance of collecting societies 
(Echerer Report).

Maria Berger, MEP SP (A)
Paula le Dieu, Creative Commons International (GB)
Ursula Sedlaczek, AustroMechana (A)
N.N., Association “Copyright for Education and Science“ (D) (tbc)
Volker Grassmuck, Humboldt University Berlin (D)
Host: N.N.


*Saturday, 03. September 2005, 11.00 – XY.00*

Presentations:
*Brucknerhaus - Kitchen*
Creative Commons Licences – Paula le Dieu, (GB)
EUREKA – A solution for small-scale digital radio – Pieter de Wit, OLON 
(NL)


Workshops:
*Stadtwerkstatt - 1^st Floor*
Licensing for free publication of intellectual or artistic content in 
the www – Michael Pilz, (A) (tbc)
Do It Yourself! Radio on Demand – Ingo Leindecker, _http://cba.fro.at_ 
<http://cba.fro.at/> (A)


With support of Kupf Innovationstopf 2005, RTR GmbH and Association of 
Free Radios Austria


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