Wizards of OS 4 Information Freedom Rules

International Conference 14-16 September 2006 at the Columbia Hall Columbiadamm 13-21, Berlin

Organized by

WOS e.V. In Cooperation with

WG Computer Science & Society of Humboldt University Berlin Tesla, Berlin c-base

Partners

Department for Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture, Brazil Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil newthinking network, Berlin Waag Society, Amsterdam OLSR Experiment by Freifunk, Berlin tOSSad Competence Network for Media Design PUBLIC VOICE Lab Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences Creative Commons FOSS.IN Netzwerk Neue Medien Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF) Berliner Unix User Group mikro e. V.

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 1 7 January 2007 Media Partners brand eins Brazine DE:BUG Deutschlandradio Kultur DIE ZEIT Freitag Linux Magazin LWN.net Mute netzpolitik.org Spektrum der Wissenschaft Telepolis Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung With friendly support by

British Council Canadian Embassy BEK – Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, Norway Linux Information Systems AG sinma gmbh Möbel Krieger Stadtkultur Berlin twist4 medienlabor Funded by

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)

Federal Agency for Civic Education

Open Society Institute – Information Program

Hauptstadtkulturfonds

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 2 7 January 2007 Informatikjahr

All original works on this website unless otherwise noted are copyright protected and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Germany. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/de/

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 3 7 January 2007 Wizard of OS 4. Information Freedom Rules

The year is 2006. 15 years after the launch of the GNU General Public Licence, ten years after John Perry Barlow declared the independence of cyberspace, and five years after Wikipedia was founded. Time for stock taking.

Free protocols enable the Internet. Free software rules on the servers. The freedom movement in the sciences advances in big steps. The free cooperative online encyclopedia Wikipedia is well-established as a reference. And every day more people are freely creating and sharing cultural expressions of all kinds.

But what is the freedom that we mean? Is freedom ruling or a niche? What rules has freedom brought forth, which does it require in order to become sustainable? Is there an essence of freedom or is it gradual, composed of options as Creative Commons suggests? Is „freedom from“ more important or „freedom to“? Do only those have freedom who can afford it or those that have nothing left to lose? Can you make a living with free information? Can you sell free beer? WOS4 charts this open territory while it unfolds in front of us.

„I am an enthusiast of free software and of the wide use of the Internet as the means of democratising access to information, in an interactive process of exchanging and sharing, which I believe to be the most intense, the most radical, the most innovative manifestation of the freedom of thought, of expression and of creation." (Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture of Brazil)

The Wizards of OS with three conferences and several workshops has firmly established itself as a place where the foundations of cultural creativity in the digital age are being debated internationally, interdisciplinarily and at high level. The fourth Wizards of OS under the title „Information Freedom Rules" again wants to infect its participants with the radical spirit of freedom and creativity, in talks, discussions and workshops present the most impressive developments of the last two years and entice its participants to collaborative explorations of the possible.

WOS4 focusses on three thematic areas:

Authorship and Culture

Thanks to the Digital Revolution culture is being made by all. Flickr, YouTube and the Internet Archive prove it. Cultural configurations are shifting fundamentally, from daily practices to whole biographies, from strategies of referring to cultural heritage to new musical and visual genres. The effect is the most pronounced where from creation to distribution and perception the work never leaves the digital realm as in the case of the netlabels of digital music.

Copyright law protects the “author subject” and its „intellectual property“ as they were formulated in the 18th century. By contrast, the media environment of the 21st century supports the remixing of existing works and an intellectual generosity und promiscuity. In appropriations, tropicalisations, hybrids and mashups the author does not disappear at

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 4 7 January 2007 all but as a point of crystallisation of reputation her role is being renegotiated – between personality rights and freedom of art, between wage labour of professionals and self- expression of all.

Brazil has taken on a special role as the nation of free culture. Through the „Pontos de Cultura“ hundreds of local cultural groups in the whole country are brought into the digital age, thanks to recycled hardware, free software and a network, in which they present their creations and learn from each other. Also in international fora Brazil promotes cultural diversity, access to knowledge and a more equitable global knowledge order.

The age of Wikipedia and Open Access in the sciences – and with it WOS4 – raises old questions in new ways: Does quality arise through collectivity or competition, through free cooperation amoung equals or through expertocracy, through networks or hierarchies?

Economy and Labour

Public domain and commons knowledge are prerequisites of innovation. That much is clear. Free creative collaboration brings forth not only new forms of artistic expression, but also welfare and therefore incentives for authors and users. The means of production and distribution of information are no longer scarce. On this basis free culture has emerged.

„We define the creative industries as those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property." (Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK government, 2005)

Today’s clash of civilizations takes place between Creative Commons and creative industries. On the one hand Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is used in an attempt to create scarcity in order to generate a market. Individual creativity turns into “intellectual property.” Culture turns into “content.”

On the other hand there is creation from abundance. “Commons-based peer production” is what Yale law scholar Yochai Benkler calls the model that proved itself so powerfully in free software and in Wikipedia. Culture is exchange and reciprocal inspiration.

„Universal access to all the world's information is technologically possible now; the missing piece is the legal infrastructure that will provide the incentives to make such access economically viable." (Hal Varian, 2005)

What is technologically possible and a millionfold reality in peer-to-peer networks cannot be rolled-back by law or technology. Thereby the question becomes central how money can be earned with free bits.

Is a market for cultural goods feasible without any copyright enforcement? The Nigerian

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 5 7 January 2007 film industry that has become the third largest behind Hollywood and Bollywood seems to prove it. Added value through physical distribution on VHS tape or disc, or through performance and contract programming, voluntary and statutory arrangements by which users collectively remunerate authors and performers, and arrangements by which users jointly buy a work for it to be free, are amoung the models that will be discussed at WOS4. A separate panel is dedicated to the question how in biotechnology free innovation and profit can go together.

Rules and Tools of Freedom

Copyright law like never before plays a central role in the artistic and economic conditions of creative production. Since the turn of the millennium it has been adapted to the new digital environment. Did this adaptation succeed? Where does it hinder innovation, where does it support the structures of free culture? The European Commission is currently reviewing the Directive on Copyright in the Information Society from 2001. WOS4 has invited the protagonists to elaborate on the issues at hand.

Licences like the GPL and those of Creative Commons with the means of copyright produce the commons that enables the cooperative creation of free culture. Also these licences are this year undergoing critical review. The electromagnetic spectrum – the central resource for the increasingly mobile, radio-based media environment – is due for re-regulation as well. What are the options, which are favourable to a free infrastructure?

Free Software is the pioneer and role model for all branches of free culture that follow. It is established and at the same time continues to be highly dynamic. What are the next chapters in this success story? Does the focus shift from software to data or to the open interfaces of web-services? With the trend towards mashups, what remains of privacy?

„Die Gedanken sind frei“ – Eben Moglen, one of the legal protagonists of free culture, reminded us at WOS3 of this battle call that echoes through the centuries. In contrast to those of our ancestors, our movement, the movement of free culture is not utopian but creates facts. Based on free means of production and distribution new structures of organisation and income emerge, free art and music, free technology and possibly even a free society. WOS4 will contribute to advancing this freedom movement.

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 6 7 January 2007 Schedule

Tuesday, 12 September 2006 -- Pre-Conference Events Location

11:00 Pressekonferenz Tesla: Klub -- WOS4

Wednesday, 13 September 2006 -- Pre-Conference Events Location

10-20:00 Workshop Art & Tesla: Klub -- Copyrights

14-19:00 newthinking WOS4 Newthinking network -- Warmup

19:00 WaveLoeten c-base --

Thursday, 14 September 2006 Columbia Club Columbia Hall Workshops

12:00 Opening Speeches -- --

13:00 Freedom Wiki 2.0: The Most Powerful -- Expanded Extensions for MediaWiki

15:00 Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, -- -- Blueprint?

17:00 Art & Copyright -- --

19:00 Break Break

20:00 Information -- -- Freedom Rules

Friday, 15 September 2006 Other Columbia Club Columbia Hall Workshops Locations

10:00 Open Source -- Featuring -- Biotechnology Cooperatives for Open

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 7 7 January 2007 Culture Compliant Businesses

12:00 Break Break

13:00 Quality Management in Free Culture -- -- Free Content Activism

15:00 Free Content Open Spectrum -- Licensing -- Issues

17:00 Business and the -- GPLv3 -- Commons

19:00 Break Break Break

20:00 ------The Read-Write 20:30 Society Picturing Free Knowledge I. -- Keynote -- Lawrence Lessig Image Banks at Tesla

22:00 Screening of Launch Short Films from

RegisteredCommons.org Nigeria, curated by Amaka Igwe

22:30 rádio cidadão comum: net batucada Netlabel Party I. -- -- brasileira on free and pirated music at Tesla Klub

Saturday, 16 September 2006 Columbia Club Columbia Hall Workshops Other Locations

10:00 Open APIs ------

12:00 Break Break

13:00 Paris Accord: Composers, -- iCommons -- Performers and the Public

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 8 7 January 2007 15:00 Are Open APIs EU Copyright the new Directive, Review Freedom or the -- and new Implementation Show des Freien Wissens Dependency? 17:00 mimoSa The Future of -- presentation, c- Free Software phere

19:00 Break Break Break

20:00 Preisverleihung -- "Schreibrecht -- -- 2006"

20:10 ------

20:30 Brazil, the Free Picturing Free -- Culture Nation -- Knowledge II. at Tesla

22:30 'MyTube & YourSpace' by Screening of "The DJ Hugo Chavez Netlabel Party II. -- Codebreakers" & VJ Ahmadinejad at Tesla Klub

Sunday, 17 September 2006 -- Post-Conference Meetings (all in parallel) Workshop Location

11-18:00 Paris Accord: Humboldt University Composers, Performers Berlin, Schrödinger -- and the Public Zentrum, Room 1'303

11-18:00 Humboldt University EUCD & Lobbying Berlin, Schrödinger -- Zentrum, Room 1'304

11-18:00 Humboldt University Wikiforschersymposium Berlin, Schrödinger -- Zentrum, Room 1'305

11-18:00 Humboldt University EU-Project Workshop Berlin, Schrödinger -- Zentrum, Room 1'306

11-17:00 Berlin-Mitte, NH Berlin ALAC Meeting -- Alexanderplatz

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 9 7 January 2007 Press Conference for the conference "Wizards of OS 4" and the "Show des Freien Wissens"

Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 11.00 am Tesla im Podewils'schen Palais Klosterstraße 68–70 10179 Berlin-Mitte

Participants

Volker Grassmuck, Project lead Wizards of OS Claudio Prado, Head of the Department of Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia Sandra Braman, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Cornelia Sollfrank, Cyberfeminist Concept Artist, Creator of automatic Net.art generators, Co-Founder of the Cyberfeminist International and Webmaster of artwarez.org, Hamburg Ronaldo Lemos, Director Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) & Project Lead Creative Commons Brazil & openbusiness.cc, Rio de Janeiro Matthias Spielkamp, Project lead Show des Freien Wissens Franka Ostertag, Team Informatikjahr

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 10 7 January 2007 Opening Speeches Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:00, Columbia Club

By SimSullen CC BY-NC-SA

Gustavo de Sá Head of the Cultural Section, Brasilian Embassy, Berlin

Thorsten Schilling Head of the Multimedia & IT Division of the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Wolfgang Coy Institute for Informatics, Chair for Informatics in Education and Society, Humboldt University Berlin

Volker Grassmuck Project Lead Wizards of OS & Project Lead iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 11 7 January 2007 Freedom Expanded Thursday, 14 September 2006, 13:00 Columbia Club

by SimSullen CC BY-NC-SA

The space of the technically feasable, socially progressive, and culturally innovative is much more extensive than the one bound by the law, particularly copyright law. In this larger space, we can see the glimpses of an informational culture where the boundaries between "producers" and "users" are almost completely eroded, new forms of production and distribution emerge to serve needs and constituencies ignored by the formal economies.

This panel will bring together some of the most daring explorers of this space, to tell about their experiences and ideas, as well as discuss the significance of these practices for society at large.

Chair: Felix Stalder Lecturer in Media Economy, Academy of Art and Design, Zurich & Co-Founder, Openflows.org, Vienna

Rasmus Fleischer Piratbyrån, Stockholm

Carmen Weisskopf Bitnik.org, Zurich

Doma Smoljo Bitnik.org, Zurich

Alexei Blinov Hive developer, London

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 12 7 January 2007 Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint? Thursday, 14 September 2006, 15:00, Columbia Club

During the last five years a new form of music distribution has emerged online. Netlabels make use of liberal licenses to distribute their music freely and generate exposure for their artists. The phenomenon has especially flourished in the electronic music scene, with literally hundreds of labels releasing electronica, house and IDM tracks and many artists gaining international recognition.

At the same time, the adoption of the netlabel idea has been slow when it comes to other genres and the traditional music industry in general. Some netlabels want to change that by embracing download stores, viral e-commerce and a more professional approach to promotion and events. Others instead celebrate the artistic and commercial independence of a not-for-profit model.

What does this mean for the future of netlabels? Will they remain a niche phenomenon? Or are they part of a long tail industry that is gaining strength as physical distribution fades?

Chair: Janko Röttgers Lowpass.cc / P2P-Blog.com, Los Angeles

John Buckman CEO Magnatune.com, Berkeley

Moritz "mo." Sauer Founder Phlow.net, Netlabels.org, Author of "Websites für Musiker, Djs und Netlabels" (O'Reilly), Cologne

Olivier Schulbaum Platoniq.net, Burn Station, Barcelona

Sebastian Redenz Thinner.cc, Mannheim

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 13 7 January 2007 Art & Copyright Thursday, 14 September 2006, 17:00, Columbia Club

Freedom of Art, Limited

A considerable part of contemporary artistic practice, in all disciplines, is based on the reworking and interpretation of preexisting material. This requires the "appropriation" of material which can be works of art just as well as objects and phenomena of everyday culture. Such approaches put artists in a legal grey-zone: on the one hand, with regard to the legal protection of their own, newly created works; and on the other, regarding the possible infringement of existing copyrights, trademarks, or personal rights.

Although many legal systems regulate artistic freedom, freedom of expression, fair use, and other copyright exceptions, this legally guaranteed tolerance is currently threatened by the increasing preeminence and commercialization of intellectual property rights, and by the spread of technical means of protection (DRM) as well.

Unlike those with vested interests in intellectual property, proponents of artistic freedom have no lobby, so far. There is a plausible reason for this: artistic freedom is often at odds with material interests. Additionally, the notions of what a protected work is and what authorship means, as codified within copyright and droit d’auteur, very often prove inflexible with regard to artistic practices of appropriation.

What are the limits of artistic freedom and what interests do they collide with? How do artists deal with these limitations in their daily work? How can contemporary artistic appropriation practices get the routine juridical approval and precedence they deserve?

Related: Workshop Art & Copyright, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 at Tesla

WOS3: Art as Anticopyright Activism

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 14 7 January 2007 Chair: Cornelia Sollfrank Cyberfeminist Concept Artist, Creator of automatic Net.art generators, Co-Founder of the Cyberfeminist International and Webmaster of artwarez.org, Hamburg

Gordon Duggan Artist and Co-Founder of Canadian based copyright advocacy group 'Appropriation Art: A Coalition of Art Professionals,' Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada

Christian von Borries is a trademark behind which hides a Producer/ Conductor/ Composer, i.e. an Originator registered with Gema, GVL and VG Wort, Berlin

Michael Iber Pianist, Electronic Musician and Computer Programmer, passionate supporter of the Linux audio world, Berlin & Coburg

Simon Yuill Artist and programmer, works with Free Open Source Software projects and is interested in various forms of autonomous social practices and non-institutional knowledge systems, Glasgow

Séverine Dusollier Doctor in Law, Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium), Head of the Department of Intellectual Property Rights at the Research Center for Computer and Law, the University of Namur & Project Lead Creative Commons Belgium, Namur

Information Freedom Rules Thursday, 14 September 2006, 20:00, Columbia Hall

by vgrass42 CC BY-NC-SA

The subtitle of WOS 4 indicates three aspects: As always, WOS wants to showcase areas where freely produced and distributed information matches and surpasses its proprietary competitors, as in software and encyclopedias. WOS 4 also wants to take a look back at Shapiro/Varian's seminal 1999 book "Information Rules" on business

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 15 7 January 2007 strategies for the networked economy, which surprisingly is completely oblivious to the new mode of „commons-based peer production" (Yochai Benkler). And thirdly, WOS 4 will look at the rules required to make Information Freedom sustainable. On this panel, the "Cooking Pot Market" meets the "Network Economy" meets the "Wealth of Networks."

Chair: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Senior researcher, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology & Founding Editor of First Monday, Maastricht

Hal R. Varian School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley

Yochai Benkler Yale Law School, New Haven

Open Source Biotechnology Friday, 15 September 2006, 10:00, Columbia Club

grabbed from video by wos stream team

A number of issues in the innovation policies of modern biotechnology, particularly the impact of patent thickets and anti-commons effects, have emerged lately. Partially as a response to such issues, partially as a natural consequence of biotech shifting towards an information-intensive sector, attempts have emerged, trying - more or less consciously - to adapt the licensing practices and development dynamics of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) to the brave new world of the life sciences. The question remains whether such approaches make sense for profit-maximizing firms and whether it is conceptually and practically useful to use the "Open Source" meme as a basis for discussion and policy-making in this sector.

Chair: Andrea Glorioso Researcher, Politecnico di Torino; Independent consultant, FLOSS Technology, Law and Policies

Sandra Braman

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 16 7 January 2007 Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and author of CHANGE OF STATE: INFORMATION, POLICY, AND POWER (MIT Press, 2006).

James Love Consumer Project on Technology, Washington, DC

Philippe Aigrain CEO, Sopinspace - Society for Public Information Spaces, Paris

Antony Taubman Acting Director and Head, Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources & Folklore Division of WIPO, Geneva (Mr. Taubman will participate in his personal capacity) (t.b.c.)

Quality Management in Free Content Friday, 15 September 2006, 13:00, Columbia Club

The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been tackling issues of open quality assessment and improvement from its start out of the failed expert-based Nupedia. Wikipedia is currently developing a system by which a version of an article can be tested and declared ‚stable.‘ Whether this tagging will take place in an open process or by a group of editors with proven reputation is still under debate. The Digital Universe encyclopedia takes a different approach by bringing in recognized experts to certify the accuracy of user-submitted articles. In scientific publishing an alternative to the peer- review controlled by major publishing companies is crucial to achieving open access. What projects exist, what approaches do they take and what can be learned for quality filtering in other areas?

Chair: Volker Grassmuck Project Lead Wizards of OS & Project Lead iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin

Ulrich Pöschl Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), European Geosciences Union (EGU) & Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Mainz

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 17 7 January 2007 Scientific Quality Assurance and Open Access http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2953

Martin Haase Board Member Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (Wikipedia-handle maha), Professor of Linguistics, University Bamberg

Larry Sanger Director of Collaborative Projects for the Digital Universe Foundation, Chief Organiser of Wikipedia in its first year, Scotts Valley, California Larry introduced for the first time his new encyclopedia project, a fork of Wikipedia, the Citizendium.

Open Spectrum Friday, 15 September 2006, 15:00, Columbia Club

The convergence of radio technology and computing creates the opportunity to rethink the electromagnetic spectrum as a public resource. The global movement of Free Wireless Networks operating on licence exempt microwave frequencies have successfully demonstrated that managing the spectrum as a commons works. Open Spectrum advocates argue that the switchover from analogue to digital radio and tv should be used to make more parts of the spectrum licence exempt. With the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) about to revise the rules of global spectrum management, there is also strong lobbying for spectrum auctioning to be increased, which would turn the 'ether' into a commodity. Which alternatives in policy making do exist? What are the requirements for sustainable peer-based networking communities?

Chair: Armin Medosch Author & (wireless) Networker, London

Onno Purbo Free Wireless Networking Activist, Jakarta, Indonesia

Robert Horvitz

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 18 7 January 2007 Stichting Open Spectrum, Prague

A Critique of Open Spectrum From Within

Malcolm J. Matson Founder COLT telecom, Founder and Executive Director OPLAN Foundation (Open Public Local Access Networks), Director of OpenPlanet Ltd, London

Business and the Commons Friday, 15 September 2006, 17:00, Columbia Club

Since digitisation of works and channels turns information into a truely public good, business models have to be radically different. How to make money with free bits is the core question driving not only the Web 2.0 hype. Is it feasible at all to market works without any copyright enforcement? Nollywood proves that it is. The Nigerian film industry has become the third largest after Hollywood and Bollywood. How can creative people and consumers strike a fair deal without intermediaries? What if they organise as two collectives that conclude a general contract among each other? If bits, once published, can‘t be controlled, then maybe the work they encode should be paid before it gets released. The Street Performer Protocol triggered a number of systems that aim at buying works so that they can be free.

Chair: Ronaldo Lemos Director Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) & Project Lead Creative Commons Brazil & openbusiness.cc, Rio de Janeiro

Danny Bruder p-pack & copycan.org; Musician and Producer, Activist, Author and Neoist; Press Officer of the c-base, Berlin

Roland Alton-Scheidl PUBLIC VOICE Lab & Project Lead RegisteredCommons.org, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 19 7 January 2007 Laurent Kratz CEO Jamendo, Luxembourg The Read-Write Society Friday, 15 September 2006, 20:00, Columbia Hall

Keynote

Lawrence Lessig Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA & Founder of Creative Commons

I've been building a meme about read-write vs. read-only society. The 20th century was the only read-only century in human history, totalitarian, centralizing, controlling. The 21st is the return to read-write.

RegisteredCommons.org Launch Party Friday, 15 September, 19:00, Columbia Club

by SimSullen CC BY-NC-SA As a result of a research project, RegisteredCommons.org advances the potential of open licensing by providing a trusted registration procedure for the community. Creative

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 20 7 January 2007 work becomes verifiable through hash coding and secure timestamps. Join us to celebrate our first registrations, the German translation of Lawrence Lessig's most recent book "Free Culture" and a live performance of our new anthem for information freedom:

Tuxedo Blues

(E)(A)Woke up this mornin' turned on the news somebody's trying to steal the blues.

(A)They try to license E-Major and put my songs in danger (B)It's my favourite blues chord soon it ain't free no more.

Went to O'Malley's to fetch me some gin sat down at the bar when i saw him walking in His name was Tux he gave me a grin said try open source fella that's how you win. cause culture is free and should always be it's creative and common for both you and me let's share this song so we can get along let's share this song so we can get along

by vgrass42. CC BY-NC-SA

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 21 7 January 2007 Open APIs Saturday, 16 September 2006, 10:00, Columbia Club

Today the great saga of Open Source is accompanied by a couple of narratives like "Web 2.0" and the "long tail economy." A short definition of Web 2.0 is that all applications are software services independent of a certain desktop. And the short path for the long tail is that most of this economy resides in niche applications.

A lot of software services are not "open." Amazon might be build on the LAMP-stack, but is certainly no open source, even if you have access to their source code. Google is not open, it builds on a culture of secrecy. Yet Amazon and Google provide us with hooks to their services. Authors can blog their books within the sphere of Amazon, people can do mashups with Google maps.

The same applies to Web 2.0-applications like Flickr which are running in some Internet cloud. You have the freedom to store your photo, but if you want to do something more, you have to pay for the Flickr API, which is not free.

The same applies to the idea of long tail economy. Within Web 2.0, developers are coding stuff for some tiny minority which may be useful in the long run. If their work depends on a mesh of different technologies and applications, they must stay away from the licensing and API traps.

The Open API panel will discuss the implications of software services and Open APIs.

First, Harald Alvestrand will give an overview of the IETF discussion and standardization process. After all, these are the forces that gave birth to an open internet as the foundation layer of Web 2.0.

Then Stefan Richter of freenigma will give some insights. Freenigma is a new privacy approach for Web 2.0, with an open API for everybody who wants to have encryption in his service. But there is more that just the question of Open APIs and how they are used by developers. As a mashup, the AJAX-based Freenigma analyses the HTML- presentation and the structuere of sites like Googlemail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. What about the Copyrights and the 'terms of service'? Are they violated with this approach?

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 22 7 January 2007 Related Tim O'Reilly's talk on Infoware at WOS1.

Chair: Detlef Borchers Free-Lance Journalist, Metten, Germany

Harald Tveit Alvestrand former chairman of the IETF & Engineer at Google, Trondheim, Norway

Stefan Richter CEO freiheit.com technologies GmbH, Co-Founder freenigma GmbH, Hamburg

Elmar Geese CEO tarent GmbH, Chairman LIVE Linux Verband, Bonn

Paris Accord: Composers, Performers and the Public Saturday, 16 September 2006, 13:00, Columbia Club

Members of creative communities and the public came together in Paris in June 2006, seeking to identify common interests and new opportunities to collaborate and to draft a joint statement, the Paris Accord. Among the many areas discussed, an agreement emerged in Paris over the need for collective arrangements permitting and remunerating the free circulation of musical works. They can take the form of voluntary cooperatives of artists and users or that of a levied legal licence. Against the background of a powerful alliance of public and artists in France and political parties among others in Sweden favouring such a solution, this model promises significant progress. WOS 3 has addressed alternative compensation systems already. WOS 4 will take the debate further.

Watch the video documentation (http://www.prayas.in/apps/files/the-paris-accord.mpg) of the Paris meeting.

This panel is sponsored by the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), with the

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 23 7 January 2007 financial support by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Related Workshop Paris Accord: Music & Medical Research on Sunday, 17 September

EU Copyright Directive, Review and Implementation Saturday, 16 September 2006, 15:00, Columbia Club

In 2006 the EU Directive on Copyright in the Information Society of 2001 (EUCD) is subject to a comprehensive review. In parallel to the EUCD review, the Gowers Report will review whether the current IP framework in the UK needs updating. Both reports will be released in Autumn 2006. During the same time, Switzerland will be implementing the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996 (WCT).

WOS4 will participate in this stock-taking of European digital copyright law and pursue questions like: Where has the directive achieved its goals? Has it hampered legitimate uses? Where there are flexibilities in the EUCD, which of the national implementations are better for freedom than others? Does it create unnecessary restrictions compared to the WCT that it transposes? Are there implementations of the WCT in countries outside the European Union that have found better solutions than the EUCD?

Furthermore, leading up to WOS4, a network of European copyright experts from civil society, building on preceding research, will collect best practice implementations of flexible EUCD provisions throughout the 25 member states. Copyright experts from the new accession and candidate countries (e.g. Bulgaria, Mazedonia, Ukraine) will asses the current copyright laws in their countries. This information will then be compiled into a Guide in order to actively promote best practice implementations.

Chair: Urs Gasser

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 24 7 January 2007 Director Research Center for Information Law, University St. Gallen

Bernt Hugenholtz Director Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam

Tilman Lueder Head of Unit Copyright and Knowledge-based Economy, DG Internal Market, European Commission, Brussels

Cornelia Kutterer Senior Legal Advisor, BEUC The European Consumers' Organisation, Brussels

The Future of Free Software Saturday, 16 September 2006, 17:00, Columbia Club

netzpolitik.org CC BY-NC-SA

This panel looks for bold visions on where free software is headed, visions on technology, community processes, business models and outreach. Will the future of free software be non-Western, user-driven and female?

Chair: Jonathan Corbet Editor in Chief of LWN.net, Boulder/Colorado

Fernanda Weiden System Administrator, Council Member of Free Software Foundation Latin America; Participant of Debian Women and Organiser of the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL); Founder of Women Free Software Project in Brazil; currently with Google in Zurich

Atul Chitnis FOSS.IN, Bangalore, India

Ellen Reitmayr Usability Engineer, Berlin

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 25 7 January 2007 Federico Heinz Co-Founder of Vía Libre Foundation, Córdoba, Argentina Preisverleihung "Schreibrecht 2006" Samstag, 16. September, 20:00, Columbia Halle

Bücher und Literatur haben in vielen Dystopien eine Rolle gespielt. In "1984" schreibt der Protagonist verbotenerweise Tagebuch, in "Schöne neue Welt" sind es die Zeilen Shakespeares, die der "Wilde" zitiert... Trotz vieler anderer Darstellungsmöglichkeiten wie Video und Musik ist die sprachliche Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Themen wichtig geblieben. Deswegen hat angesichts massiv zunehmender Überwachung Telepolis zusammen mit Bürgerrechts- und Datenschutzgruppen zu dem Schreibrecht- Wettbewerb (www.heise.de/tp/r4/magazin/lit/22293/1.html) aufgerufen, der Bürgerrechte und Datenschutz zum Thema hatte.

Die Sorge vor der allgegenwärtigen Datenverarbeitung und der Überwachung spiegelte sich in den Einsendungen wieder, die allesamt kaum ein "Happy End" aufwiesen. Doch die Beiträge zeigen, wie viele Menschen sich auf diese Weise mit RFID, Videoüberwachung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung und anderen Themen befassen. Die besten fünf Beiträge (welche die Redaktion auswählte) wurden einer Jury übergeben, die aus Musikern, Bürgerrechtlern, Karikaturisten und Journalisten besteht und die *den* Beitrag auswählen werden, der ihrer Meinung nach verdient, während der "Wizards of OS" mit dem Jurypreis in Höhe von 1.000 Euro ausgezeichnet zu werden.

"Schreibrecht" hat gezeigt, dass das einlullende "Nichts zu verbergen"-Mantra nicht überzeugt, dass viele Menschen sich Gedanken über den Jetztzustand und künftige Entwicklungen machen und diese in Worte kleiden können und wollen.

Am 16.9. um 20.00 Uhr werden Twister (Bettina Winsemann) von 1984 und Florian Rötzer von Telepolis in der Columbia Halle den Gewinner begrüßen und bekanntgeben.

Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Saturday, 16 September 2006, 20:00, Columbia Hall

by netzpolitik.org CC BY-NC-SA

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 26 7 January 2007 Brazil has emerged as the prime promoter of free culture, domestically and in international fora. „We are going to tropicalize the digital revolution." Under this motto by Brazil‘s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, the country is developing a broad range of activities for promoting digital culture. WOS 4 together with the Ministry of Culture and other Brasilian partners wants to show a representative spectrum.

Starting point is a vibrant local culture. From the poor neigbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro or Belem new musical genres are touching the ears and hearts of people across the globe, via Internet without any intermediary. „Pontos de Cultura" is the master-plan of bringing 600 cultural projects across the country into the digital age. Groups working with music or video, indigenous crafts or capoeira, graffiti and circus will be equipped with multimedia hardware, free software and a budget in order to produce, document and freely share with the world their cultural expressions. WOS4 will present an overview of the works coming out of these Culture Spots. Recycled hardware and free software play a crucial role as infrastructure far beyond the Pontos. The questions here as with all of WOS is: how are we going to achieve cultural diversity and financial and cultural autonomy?

Claudio Prado Head of the Department of Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia

Fabian Ress CEO suBa Berlin (sound urBan atlantic), Journalist & TV Producer, Berlin, Munich & Rio de Janeiro

Sabrina Fidalgo Filmmaker and Screenwriter, Journalist, Munich

Felipe Fonseca MetaReciclagem, São Paulo

MetaReciclagem is an open network of media activists, software developers, engineers, educators and social workers that develops projects of technological appropriation for social change all around Brasil. It has evolved from a project created in a mailing list to an effective open methodology used by government and third sector projects, involving more than two hundred people and a high level of continuous collective innovation based upon the ideals of free knowledge and open collaboration.

Fernanda Weiden System Administrator, Council Member of Free Software Foundation Latin America; Participant of Debian Women and Organiser of the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL); Founder of Women in Free Software Project in Brazil; currently with Google, Zurich

Closing Ceremony

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 27 7 January 2007 Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:00, Columbia Hall

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 28 7 January 2007 Speakers

Philippe Aigrain CEO, Sopinspace - Society for Public Information Spaces, Paris

Roland Alton-Scheidl PUBLIC VOICE Lab & Project Lead RegisteredCommons.org, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

Harald Tveit Alvestrand former chairman of the IETF & Engineer at Google, Trondheim, Norway

Yochai Benkler Yale Law School, New Haven

Alexei Blinov Hive developer, London

Maja Bogataj Jancic Director, Intellectual Property Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Detlef Borchers Free-Lance Journalist, Metten, Germany

Christian von Borries is a trademark behind which hides a Producer/ Conductor/ Composer, i.e. an Originator registered with Gema, GVL and VG Wort, Berlin

Sandra Braman Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Danny Bruder p-pack & copycan.org; Musician and Producer, Activist, Author and Neoist; Press Officer of the c-base, Berlin

John Buckman CEO Magnatune.com, Berkeley

Atul Chitnis FOSS.IN, Bangalore/India

Jonathan Corbet Editor in Chief of LWN.net, Boulder/Colorado

Wolfgang Coy Institute for Informatics, Chair for Informatics in Education and Society, Humboldt University Berlin

Gordon Duggan

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 29 7 January 2007 Artist and Co-Founder of Canadian based copyright advocacy group 'Appropriation Art: A Coalition of Art Professionals,' Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada

Séverine Dusollier Doctor in Law, Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium), Head of the Department of Intellectual Property Rights at the Research Center for Computer and Law, the University of Namur & Project Lead Creative Commons Belgium, Namur

Sabrina Fidalgo Filmmaker and Screenwriter, Journalist, Munich

Rasmus Fleischer Piratbyrån, Stockholm

Felipe Fonseca MetaReciclagem, São Paulo

Vera Franz Information Programme, Open Society Institute, London

Urs Gasser Director Research Center for Information Law, University St. Gallen

Elmar Geese CEO tarent GmbH, Chairman LIVE Linux Verband, Bonn

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh Senior researcher, United Nations University, Maastricht

Andrea Glorioso Researcher, Politecnico di Torino; Independent consultant, FLOSS Technology, Law and Policies

Martin Haase Martin Haase, Board Member Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., Professor of Linguistics, University Bamberg

Federico Heinz Co-Founder of Vía Libre Foundation, Córdoba, Argentina

Robert Horvitz Stichting Open Spectrum, Prague

Bernt Hugenholtz Director Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam

Michael Iber

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 30 7 January 2007 Pianist, Electronic Musician and Computer Programmer, passionate supporter of the Linux audio world, Berlin & Coburg

Peter Jenner Secretary-General of the International Music Managers' Forum, London

Paul Keller Waag Society & Creative Commons Netherlands, Amsterdam

Laurent Kratz CEO Jamendo, Luxembourg

Cornelia Kutterer Senior Legal Advisor, BEUC The European Consumers' Organisation, Brussels

Ronaldo Lemos Director Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) & Project Lead Creative Commons Brazil & openbusiness.cc, Rio de Janeiro

Lawrence Lessig Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA & Founder of Creative Commons

Bennett Lincoff Attorney at Law, former Director of Legal Affairs for New Media at ASCAP, New York

Tilman Lueder Head of Unit Copyright and Knowledge-based Economy, DG Internal Market, European Commission, Brussels

Malcolm J. Matson Founder COLT telecom, Founder and Executive Director OPLAN Foundation (Open Public Local Access Networks), Director of OpenPlanet Ltd, London

Armin Medosch Author & (wireless) Networker, London

Ulrich Pöschl Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), European Geosciences Union (EGU) & Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Mainz

Claudio Prado Head of the Department of Digital Culture, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia

Onno Purbo Free Wireless Networking Activist, Jakarta, Indone

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 31 7 January 2007 Sebastian Redenz Thinner & Autoplate Netlabel

Ellen Reitmayr Usability Engineer, Berlin

Fabian Ress CEO suBa Berlin (sound urBan atlantic), Journalist & TV Producer, Berlin, Munich & Rio de Janeiro

Stefan Richter freiheit.com technologies gmbh, Hamburg

Janko Roettgers Lowpass.cc / P2P-Blog.com, Los Angeles

Larry Sanger Director of Collaborative Projects for the Digital Universe Foundation, Scotts Valley, California

Moritz "mo." Sauer Founder Phlow.net, Netlabels.org, Author of "Websites für Musiker, Djs und Netlabels" (O'Reilly), Cologne

Thorsten Schilling Head of the Multimedia & IT Division of the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Olivier Schulbaum Platoniq.net, Burn Station, Barcelona

Doma Smoljo Bitnik.org, Zurich

Cornelia Sollfrank Cyberfeminist Concept Artist, Creator of automatic Net.art generators, Co-Founder of the Cyberfeminist International and Webmaster of artwarez.org, Hamburg

Felix Stalder Lecturer in Media Economy, Academy of Art and Design, Zurich & Co-Founder, Openflows.org, Vienna

Antony Taubman Genetic Resources & Folklore division of WIPO, Geneva

Hal R. Varian School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley

Fernanda Weiden System Administrator, Council Member of Free Software Foundation Latin America; Participant of Debian Women and Organiser of the Fórum Internacional Software Livre

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 32 7 January 2007 (FISL); Founder of Women in Free Software Project in Brazil; currently with Google, Zurich

Carmen Weisskopf Bitnik.org, Zurich

Simon Yuill Artist and programmer, works with Free Open Source Software projects and is interested in various forms of autonomous social practices and non-institutional knowledge systems, Glasgow

From www.wizards-of-os.org/en/ 33 7 January 2007