[rohrpost] TESLA-salon on databases, phone directories and copyright, 19 Dec

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Tesla-Salon
Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 20:30h
free entrance


Specimen 781: Feist's telephone directory
or: What kind of a thing is a database?

A discussion with Kobe Matthys (Agency), Jan Gerber (Pirate Cinema), 
Sebastian Luetgert (Pirate Cinema), moderated by Andreas Broeckmann

In the 1991 US court case Feist Publications vs. Rural Telephone 
Service Company, the conflict turned around the copyrighting of a 
telephone directory. In legal terms, a database and any other form of 
directory or listing is considered as a 'compilation'. The decision 
of this particular court case has set the directions for the 
copyrighting of databases and is therefore often quoted in current 
cases.

Starting from this simple 'thing', the artist Kobe Matthys from 
Brussels, currently in residence at TESLA, explores the grey zone 
between 'quasi' objects (evolution of information) and subjects, 
where the creation of 'artefacts' creates a specific legal framework. 
Matthys is working on an extensive database about international and 
historical legal cases concerning copyright legislation and will 
discuss related issues with the artists and copyright experts Jan 
Gerber and Sebastian Luetgert.

Agency presents things that witness the splitting of nature. These 
are things that have been either classified as nature or culture, 
that are quasi object or subject, that moved from evolution to 
creation or the other way around.
Agency was founded in 1992 by Kobe Matthys. This association is based 
on informal agency. As with all other associations, Agency is a 
fictitious persona. Agency is located in Brussels, Europe.



di. 19. dez. 2006 | 20:30 h

was für ein ding ist eine datenbank?

eine diskussion mit jan gerber (pirate cinema), sebastian luetgert
(pirate cinema), kobe matthys (agency), moderiert von andreas broeckmann

datenbanken werden ein immer wichtigeres tool, um wissen zu
strukturieren und verfügbar zu machen. im zeitalter von google und mysql
können gegenstände, die in einer datenbank nicht prominent ausgezeichnet
sind, leicht vergessen werden.

der künstler kobe matthys aus brüssel, zurzeit projektresidenzler bei t
e s l a, arbeitet an einer umfassenden datenbank über internationale und
historische juristische fälle, die das copyright-recht betreffen. er
wird einige der praktischen und theoretischen themen diskutieren, die
mit der strukturierung von wissen in datenbanken zusammen hängen, z.b.

- kosmologien, ontologien, taxonomien, klassifikationen, schlagwort ...
- beispiele, wie spezifische eigenheiten implementiert werden können
- quantitative arbeit, copyright-fragen von datenbanken
- archive, museen, publikationen, depots, register, datenbanken


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