[wos] FilmCommons/ Linuxtag

[Meike]

INVITATION
Linuxtag, Wiesbaden, 04.05.2006, 16 h

http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/de/besucher/programm/firmenvortraege/donnerstag.html?talkid=398

Digital networks are pushing copyright to its limits. Scared and confused, 
giant film and music corporations demand ever tighter restrictions on users 
of their works. Others are looking further. The Creative Commons project 
provides a simple way of making texts, music and films available on terms 
that are just as free as the creators choose. Creative Commons provides 
licenses that are easy to understand and to use.

Creativity needs incentives, and copyright should provide them. But creativity 
also needs access to inspirational works. Creative Commons builds on 
copyright to provide this access.

We will show a selection of shortfilms which are distributed under Creative 
Commons licenses. The makers of these anmiations, trick films and 
documentaries have replaced the common "All rights reserved" by "Some rights 
reserved". They are experimenting with p2p-economy and alternative 
distribution systems. And they are finding their audience on the Internet.

Together with you, we will work out how Creative Commons works, how you can 
use it, and what its limits are. Come and watch, discuss with us and bring 
popcorn!

Organized by Markus Beckedahl, Axel Dürkop, Karsten Gerloff and Meike Richter