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International Conference 14–16 September 2006 Columbia Hall and Columbia Club Berlin
www.informatikjahr.de Wizards of OS 4 – Information Freedom Rules
The year is 2006. 15 years after the launch of the WOS4 charts this open territory while it unfolds in GNU General Public Licence, ten years after John front of us. Perry Barlow declared the independence of cyber- space, and five years after Wikipedia was founded. The Wizards of OS with three conferences and Time for stock taking. Free protocols enable the several workshops has firmly established itself as Internet. Free software rules on the servers. The a place where the foundations of cultural creativity freedom movement in the sciences advances in big in the digital age are being debated internationally, steps. The free cooperative online encyclopedia interdisciplinarily and at high level. The fourth Wikipedia is well-established as a reference. And Wizards of OS under the title „Information every day more people are freely creating and sha- Freedom Rules" again wants to infect its partici- ring cultural expressions of all kinds. But what is pants with the radical spirit of freedom and creati- the freedom that we mean? Is freedom ruling or a vity, in talks, discussions and workshops present niche? What rules has freedom brought forth, the most impressive developments of the last two which does it require in order to become sustaina- years and entice its participants to collaborative ble? Is there an essence of freedom or is it gra- explorations of the possible. dual, 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?
02 Funded by Table of Contents
Intro 02 OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE & Soros FoundationsNetwork The Issues of WOS 4 04
Programmme 08
Panels 08
Workshops 19
Specials 27
Schedule 32
Locations 36 Media Partners
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03 The Issues of WOS4 labels of digital music. Copyright law protects the author subject and its „intellectual property“ as they were formulated in the 18th century. By con- trast, the media environment of the 21st century Authorship and Culture supports the remixing of existing works and an Freedom intellectual generosity und promiscuity. In appro- Thanks to the Digital Revolution priations, tropicalisations, hybrids and mashups culture is being made by all. the author does not disappear at all but as a point Flickr, YouTube and the Internet of crystallisation of reputation her role is being Archive prove it. Cultural configurations are shif- renegotiated – between personality rights and fre- ting fundamentally, from daily practices to whole edom of art, between wage labour of professionals biographies, from strategies of referring to cultu- and self-expression of all. ral heritage to new musical and visual genres. The effect is Brazil has taken on a special role of the nation of the most pronounced free culture. Through the „Pontos de Cultura“ hun- where from creation dreds of local cultural groups in the whole country to distribution and are brought into the digital age, thanks to recycled perception the hardware, free software and a network, in which work never they present their creations and learn from each leaves the other. Also in international fora Brazil promotes cul- digital tural diversity, access to knowledge and a more realm as equitable global knowledge order. The age of in the Wikipedia and Open Access in the sciences – and case of with it WOS4 – raises old questions in new ways: the net- Does quality arise through collectivity or competiti-
04 With friendly support by on, through free cooperation amoung basis free culture has emerged. equals or through expertocracy, Today’s clash of civilizations takes TransAtlantic Consumer through networks or hierarchies? place between Creative Commons Dialogue (TACD) supported by and creative industries. On the one the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Panels: Brazil, the Free Culture hand Digital Restrictions Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Nation • The Read-Write Society • Net- Management (DRM) is used in an BEK – Bergen Center for labels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint • attempt to create scarcity in order to Electronic Arts, Norway Linux Art & Copyright • Quality Manage- generate a market. Individual creati- Information ment in Free Content vity turns into “intellectual property.” Culture turns into “content.” Systems AG sinma gmbh Stadtkultur Berlin Twist4 Medienlabor On the other hand there is creation Economy and from abundance. “Commons-based Infomation Labour peer production” is what Yale law scholar Yochai Benkler calls the Public domain and model that proved itself so powerfully commons know- in free software and in Wikipedia. ledge are prerequisites of innovation. Culture is exchange and reciprocal That much is clear. Free creative inspiration. What is technologically collaboration brings forth not only possible and a millionfold reality in new forms of artistic expression, but peer-to-peer networks cannot be rol- also welfare and therefore incentives led-back by law or technology. for authors and users. The means of Thereby the question becomes cen- production and distribution of infor- tral how money can be earned with mation are no longer scarce. On this free bits.
05 Is a market for cultural goods feasible without any copyright enforcement? The Nigerian film industry that has become the third largest behind Rules and Tools Hollywood and Bollywood seems to prove it. Added Rules of Freedom value through physical distribution on VHS tape or disc, or through performance and contract pro- Copyright law like never before gramming, voluntary and statutory arrangements plays a central role in the artistic by which users collectively remunerate authors and economic conditions of creative production. and performers, and arrangements by which users Since the turn of the millennium it has been adap- jointly buy a work for it to be free, are among the ted to the new digital environment. Did this adapta- models that will be discussed at WOS4. A separate tion succeed? Where does it hinder innovation, panel is dedicated to the question how in biotech- where does it support the structures of free cultu- nology free innovation and profit can go together. re? The European Commission is currently revie- wing the Directive on Copyright in the Information Panels: Information Freedom Rules • Business and Society from 2001. WOS4 has invited the protago- the Commons • Paris Accord: Composers, Perfor- nists to elaborate on the issues at hand. mers and the Public • Open Source Biotechnology 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 under- going 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
06 Partners: favourable to a free infrastructure? Free Software is the pioneer and role model for all branches of free Department for Digital Culture • culture that follow. It is established and at the Ministry of Culture • Brazil, same time continues to be highly dynamic. What Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the are the next chapters in this success story? Does Fundação Getulio Vargas the focus shift from software to data or to the open (FGV) • School of Law in Rio interfaces of web-services? With the trend towards de Janeiro, Brazil • newthin- king network, Berlin • Waag mashups, what remains of privacy? Society, Amsterdam • OLSR „Die Gedanken sind frei“ – Eben Moglen, one of the Experiment by Freifunk, legal protagonists of free culture, reminded us at Berlin • tOSSad, Competence WOS3 of this battle call that echoes through the cen- Network for Media Design • PUBLIC VOICE Lab, Vorarl- turies. In contrast to those of our ancestors, our berg • University of Applied movement, the movement of free culture is not utopi- Sciences • Creative Commons • an but creates facts. Based on free means of produc- FOSS.IN, Netzwerk Neue Medien • Forum Informatik- tion and distribution new structures of organisation erInnen für Frieden und and income emerge, free art and music, free technolo- gesellschaftliche Verantwort- gy and possibly even a free society. WOS4 will contri- ung (FIfF) • Berliner Unix User bute to advancing this freedom movement. Group, mikro e. V.
Panels: EU Copyright Directive, Review and Implementation • The Read-Write Society • The Future of Free Software • Open APIs • Freedom Expanded • Open Spectrum
07 Opening Rasmus Fleischer, Piratbyrån, Stockholm • Carmen Weisskopf, Bitnik.org, Zurich • Doma Opening Speeches Smoljo, Bitnik.org, Zurich • Alexei Blinov, Hive 12:00, Columbia Club, Thursday, developer, London 14 September 2006, The space of the technically feasable, socially pro- Thorsten Schilling, Head of the Multimedia & IT gressive, and culturally innovative is much more Division of the German Federal Agency for Civic extensive than the one bound by the law, particu- Education, Bonn larly copyright law. In this larger space, we can see the glimpses of an informational culture where the Wolfgang Coy, Institute for Informatics, Chair for boundaries between "producers" and "users" are Informatics in Education and Society, Humboldt almost completely eroded, new forms of produc- University Berlin tion and distribution emerge to serve needs and constituencies ignored by the formal economies. Volker Grassmuck, Project Lead Wizards of OS & This panel will bring together some of the most Project Lead iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt daring explorers of this space, to tell about their University, Berlin experiences and ideas, as well as discuss the sig- nificance of these practices for society at large. Panels Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint Freedom Expanded Thursday, 14 September 2006, Thursday, 14 September 2006, 15:00, Columbia Club 13:00, Columbia Club Chair: Janko Röttgers, Lowpass.cc / P2P- Chair: Felix Stalder, Academy of Art and Design, Blog.com, Los Angeles • John Buckman, CEO Zurich & co-founder, Openflows.org, Vienna Magnatune.com, Berkeley • Moritz "mo." Sauer
08 Founder Phlow.net, Netlabels.org, for the future of netlabels? Will they Author of "Websites für Musiker, DJs remain a niche phenomenon? Or are und Netlabels" (O'Reilly), Cologne • they part of a long tail industry that is Olivier Schulbaum, Platoniq.net, gaining strength as physical distribu- Burn Station, Barcelona • Sebastian tion fades? Redenz, Thinner.cc, Mannheim Related: Panel “Business and the Commons,” Special “Netlabel Parties” Netlabels make use of liberal licen- ces to distribute their music freely and Art & Copyright. Freedom of Art, generate exposure for their artists. Limited The phenomenon has especially flou- Thursday, 14 September 2006, 17:00, rished in the electronic music scene, Columbia Club with literally hundreds of labels relea- Chair: Cornelia Sollfrank, sing electronica, house and IDM Cyberfeminist Concept tracks. At the same time, the adoption Artist, Creator of automatic of the netlabel idea has been slow Net.art generators, Co-Founder of when it comes to other genres and the the Cyberfeminist International and traditional music industry in general. Webmaster of artwarez.org, Some netlabels want to change that Hamburg • Gordon Duggan, Artist and by embracing download stores, viral e- Co-Founder of Canadian based copy- commerce and a more professional right advocacy group 'Appropriation approach to promotion and events. Art: A Coalition of Art Professionals,' Others instead celebrate the artistic Canada • Christian von Borries, and commercial independence of a not- Producer, Conductor, Composer, for-profit model. What does this mean Berlin Michael Iber, Pianist, Electronic Musician and Information Freedom Rules Computer Programmer, passionate supporter of Thursday, 14 September 2006, 20:00, the Linux audio world, Berlin & Coburg • Simon Columbia Hall Yuill, Artist and Programmer, Glasgow • Séverine Chair: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Senior Researcher, Dusollier, Head of the Department of Intellectual United Nations University, Maastricht • Economic Property Rights at the Research Center for and Social Research and Training Centre on Computer and Law, University of Namur & Project Innovation and Technology & Founding Editor of Lead Creative Commons Belgium, Namur First Monday, Maastricht • Hal R. Varian, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley • A considerable part of contemporary artistic prac- Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School tice is based on the reworking and interpretation of preexisting material. This requires the "appropria- The subtitle of WOS4 indicates three aspects: As tion" of material which can be works of art just as always, WOS wants to showcase areas where freely well as objects and phenomena of everyday cultu- produced and distributed information matches and re. Such approaches put artists in a legal grey- surpasses its proprietary competitiors, as in soft- zone: on the one hand, with regard to the legal ware and encyclopedias. WOS4 also wants to take protection of their own, newly created works; and a look back at Shapiro/Varian‘s seminal 1999 book on the other, regarding the possible infringement „Information Rules" on business strategies for the of existing copyrights, trademarks, or personal networked economy, which surprisingly is comple- rights.. What are the limits of artistic freedom and tely oblivious to the new mode of „commons-based what interests do they collide with? How do artists peer production" (Yochai Benkler). And thirdly, deal with these limitations in their daily work? How WOS4 will look at the rules required to make can contemporary artistic appropriation practices Information Freedom sustainable. On this panel, get the routine juridical approval and precedence the Cooking Pot Market meets the Network they deserve? Related: Workshop “Art & Copyright” Economy meets the Wealth of Networks.
10 Related: Panel “Business and the as a response to such issues, partial- Commons” ly as a natural consequence of bio- tech shifting more and more towards Open Source Biotechnology being an information-intensive sec- Friday, 15 September 2006, tor, several attempts have emerged, 10:00, Columbia Club trying – more or less consciously – to Chair: Andrea Glorioso, Politecnico di adapt the licensing practices and Torino; Independent consultant, FLOSS development dynamics of Free, Libre Technology • Sandra Braman, Depart- and Open Source Software (FLOSS) to ment of Communication, University the brave new world of the life scien- of Wisconsin-Milwaukee • James ces. The question remains whether Love, Consumer Project on Techno- such approaches make sense for logy, Washington, DC • Philippe profit-maximizing firms and whether Aigrain CEO Sopinspace – Society for it is conceptually and practically use- Public Information Spaces, Paris • ful to use the "Open Source" meme Antony Taubman, Acting Director and as a basis for discussion and policy- Head, Traditional Knowledge, Genetic making in this sector. Related: Resources & Folklore Division of Workshop “Paris Accord: Music & WIPO, Geneva Medical Research”
A number of perceived issues in the innovation policies of modern bio- technology, particularly the impact of patent thickets and anti-commons effects, have emerged lately. Partially Quality Management in Free Content scientific publishing an alternative to the peer- Friday, 15 September 2006, 13:00, review controlled by major publishing companies is Columbia Club crucial to achieving open access. What projects Chair: Gero von Randow, Editor in Chief DIE ZEIT exist, what approaches do they take and what can online • Larry Sanger, Director of Collaborative be learned for quality filtering in other areas? Projects for the Digital Universe Foundation, Chief Related: Workshop “Wiki 2.0: The Most Powerful Organiser of Wikipedia in its first year, Scotts Extensions for MediaWiki,” Workshop Valley, CA • Martin Haase, Board Member “Wikiforschersymposium” Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., Professor of Linguistics, University Bamberg • Ulrich Pöschl, Open Spectrum Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Friday, 15 September 2006, 15:00, (ACP), European Geosciences Union (EGU) & Max Columbia Club Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Mainz Chair: Armin Medosch, Author, London • Onno Purbo, Free Wireless Networking Activist, Jakarta • Robert The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been Horvitz, Stichting Open Spectrum, Prague • Malcolm tackling issues of open quality assessment and J. Matson, Founder COLT telecom, Founder and improvement from its start out of the failed expert- Executive Director OPLAN Foundation, Director of based Nupedia. Wikipedia is currently developing a OpenPlanet Ltd, London system by which a version of an article can be tested and declared ‚stable.‘ Whether this tagging The convergence of radio technology and compu- will take place in an open process or by a group of ting creates the opportunity to rethink the electro- editors with proven reputation is still under debate. magnetic spectrum as a public resource. The glo- The Digital Universe encyclopedia takes a different bal movement of Free Wireless Networks approach by bringing in recognized experts to cer- operating on licence exempt microwave frequen- tify the accuracy of user-submitted articles. In cies have successfully demonstrated that mana-
12 ging the spectrum as a commons Janeiro • Amaka Igwe, CEO Amaka works. Open Spectrum advocates Igwe Studios & Writer, Director and argue that the switchover from ana- Producer & Founder of the annual logue to digital radio and tv should be Best of the Best Television Program- used to make more parts of the spec- mes Market (BOBTV), Abuja, Nigeria trum licence exempt. With the • Danny Bruder, p-pack & copycan.org; International Telecommunication Musician and Producer, Author, Union (ITU) about to revise the rules Press Officer of c-base, Berlin • of global spectrum management, Roland Alton-Scheidl, PUBLIC VOICE there is also strong lobbying for Lab & Project Lead RegisteredCom- spectrum auctioning to be increased, mons.org, Vorarlberg • University of which would turn the 'ether' into a Applied Sciences, Laurent Kratz, CEO commodity. Which alternatives in Jamendo, Luxembourg policy making do exist? Related: Special “Hive Network,” Since digitisation of works and chan- Special “OLSR Network Experiment” nels turns information into a truely public good, business models have to Business and the Commons be radically different. How to make Friday, 15 September 2006, money with free bits is the core que- 17:00, Columbia Club stion driving not only the Web 2.0 Chair: Ronaldo Lemos, Director hype. Is it feasible at all to market Center for Technology & Society works without any copyright enforce- (CTS), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) ment? Nollywood proves that it is. The & Project Lead Creative Commons Nigerian film industry has become the Brazil & openbusiness.cc, Rio de third largest after Hollywood and
13 Bollywood. How can creative people and consumers Open APIs strike a fair deal without intermediaries? If bits, Saturday, 16 September 2006, once published, can‘t be controlled, then maybe the 10:00, Columbia Club work they encode should be paid before it gets Chair: Detlef Borchers, Free-Lance Journalist, released. Related: Panel “Netlabels: Niche, Long Metten, Germany • Harald Tveit Alvestrand, for- Tail, Blueprint?,” Workshop “iCommons,” Special mer chairman of the IETF & Engineer at Google, “Netlabel Parties,” Special “Launch Trondheim, Norway • Stefan Richter, CEO frei- RegisteredCommons” heit.com technologies GmbH, Co-Founder freenig- ma GmbH, Hamburg • Elmar Geese, CEO tarent Keynote: The Read-Write Society GmbH, Chairman LIVE Linux Verband, Bonn Friday, 15 September 2006, 20:00, Columbia Hall Today the great saga of Open Source is accompa- Chair: Vera Franz, Information Programme, Open nied by a couple of narratives like "Web 2.0" and Society Institute, London • Lawrence Lessig, the "long tail economy". A short definition of Web Stanford Law School & founder of Creative 2.0 is that all applications are software services Commons independent of a certain desktop. And the short path for the long tail is that most of this economy I've been building a meme about read-write vs. resides in niche applications. A lot of software ser- read-only society. The 20th century was the only vices are not "open". Amazon might be build on the read-only century in human history, totalitarian, LAMP-stack, but is certainly no open source, even centralizing, controlling. The 21st is the return to if you have access to their source code. Google is read-write. not open, it builds on a culture of secrecy. Yet Related: Workshop “Free Content Licensing Amazon and Google provide us with hooks to their Issues,” Workshop “GPLv3,” Workshop services. Authors can blog their books within the “iCommons” sphere of Amazon, people can do mashups with
14 Google maps. The same applies to Paris Accord: Composers, Web 2.0-applications like Flickr, Performers and the Public which are running in some Internet Saturday, 16 September cloud. You have the freedom to store 2006, 13:00, Columbia Club your photo, but if you want to do Chair: Volker Grassmuck, Project something more, you have to pay for Lead Wizards of OS, Project Lead the Flickr API, which is not free. iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt The panel will discuss the implicati- University, Berlin • James Love, ons of software services and Open Consumer Project on Technology, APIs. Related: Workshop “Are Open Washington, DC • Cornelia Kutterer, APIs the new Freedom or the new Senior Legal Advisor, BEUC The Dependency?” European Consumers' Organisation, Brussels • Peter Jenner, International Music Managers' Forum, London • Bennett Lincoff, Attorney at Law, for- mer Director of Legal Affairs for New Media at ASCAP, New York
Members of creative communities and the public came together in Paris in June 2006, seeking to identify common interests and new opportu- nities to collaborate and to draft a joint statement, the Paris Accord. Among the many areas discussed, an
15 agreement emerged in Paris over the need for Economy, DG Internal Market, European collective arrangements permitting and remunera- Commission, Brussels • Cornelia Kutterer, Senior ting the free circulation of musical works. They can Legal Advisor, BEUC The European Consumers' take the form of voluntary cooperatives of artists Organisation, Brussels • Maja Bogataj Jancic, and users or that of a levied legal licence. Against Director Intellectual Property Institute, Ljubljana the background of a powerful alliance of public and artists in France and political parties among others In 2006 the EU Directive on Copyright in the in Sweden favouring such a solution, this model Information Society of 2001 (EUCD) is subject to a promises significant progress. WOS 3 has addres- comprehensive review to be released in Autumn. sed alternative compensation systems already. WOS4 will participate in this stock-taking of WOS4 will take the debate further. European digital copyright law and pursue questi- This panel is supported by TransAtlantic Consumer ons like: Where has the directive achieved its Dialogue (TACD). Related: Panel “Open Source goals? Has it hampered legitimate uses? Where Biotechnology,” Workshop “Paris Accord: Music & there are flexibilities in the EUCD, which of the Medical Research” national implementations are better for freedom than others? Furthermore, leading up to WOS4, a EU Copyright Directive, Review network of European copyright experts from civil and Implementation society will collect implementations of flexible Saturday, 16 September 2006, EUCD provisions throughout the 25 member sta- 15:00, Columbia Club tes. This information will be compiled into a Best Chair: Urs Gasser, Director Research Center for Practice Guide in order to promote the best possi- Information Law, University St. Gallen • Bernt ble implementations in EU accession and candidate Hugenholtz, Director Institute for Information countries like Bulgaria, Macedonia and Ukraine. Law, University of Amsterdam • Tilman Lueder, Related: “Workshop EUCD in Accession States & Head Unit Copyright and Knowledge-based Lobbying”
16 The Future of Free Software Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Saturday, 16 September Saturday, 16 September 2006, 2006, 17:00, Columbia Club 20:10, Columbia Hall Chair: Jonathan Corbet, Editor in Chair: Volker Grassmuck, Project Chief of LWN.net, Boulder, CO • Lead Wizards of OS, Project Lead Fernanda Weiden, System Adminis- iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt trator, Council Member of Free Soft- University, Berlin • Claudio Prado, ware Foundation Latin Americ, Partici- Department of Digital Culture, Ministry pant of Debian Women, Organiser of of Culture, Brasilia • Felipe Fonseca, the Forum Internacional Software MetaReciclagem, São Paulo • Fernanda Livre (FISL), Founder of Women Free Weiden, System Administrator, Software Project in Brazil, currently Council Member of Free Software with Google, Zurich • Atul Chitnis, Foundation Latin America, Participant FOSS.IN, Bangalore, India • Ellen of Debian Women and Organiser of Reitmayr, Usability Engineer, Berlin the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL), Founder of Women in This panel looks for bold visions on Free Software Project in Brazil, cur- where free software is headed, visi- rently with Google, Zurich • Fabian ons on technology, community pro- Ress, CEO suBa Berlin (sound urBan cesses, business models and out- atlantic), Journalist & TV Producer, reach. Will the future of free software Berlin, Munich & Rio de Janeiro be non-Western, user-driven and female? Brazil has emerged as the prime pro- moter of free culture, domestically and in international fora. “We are
17 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 activi- ties for promoting digital 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 with the help of recyc- led hardware and free software. WOS4 will present an overview of the works coming out of these Culture Spots. Related: Special “mimoSa,” Special “Netlabel Parties”
18 Workshops grammers and theoreticians will meet for a concentrated exchange of Wednesday, 13 September experiences. The workshop will 2006,10:00 – 20:00, Tesla include a general discussion about Art & Copyright terminology; it will address questions FREEdom and OPENness – anything of authorship; it offers the possibility but marketing and ideology? Sharing, for knowledge transfer in a section really? Culture from and for the about free tools for artistic and cultu- Commons. ral production and discusses their meaning for the quality of an art- Organised by Cornelia Sollfrank and work; it tries to evaluate the practice Nicolas Malevé of applying open licences to works of art, and finally demonstrates a new Participants: Laurence Rassel, Simon model of open publishing as well as Yuill, Harrisson, Pierre Huyghbaert, the use of free tools in design and Simon Worthington, Adam Hyde, Saul publishing during the final “printing Albert, Gisle Frøysland, Malte party.” Steiner, Gordon Duggan, Eberhard Related: “Panel Art & Copyright” Ortland, Hinrich Sachs, Aileen Derieg, Goran Djordevic, Gergers Wednesday, 13 September 2006, Petersen, Felix Stalder, Inke Arns, 14:00 – 19:00, Jacob Lillemose, Annette Schindler, newthinking WOS4 Warmup Dorothea Carl, Christian von Borries Markus Beckedahl, newthinking communications & netzpolitik.org, An international group of artists, pro- Berlin et al.
19 On the day before the WOS4, newthinking network Wikis have long become more than flat text data- presents an afternoon of free software, free know- bases. MediaWiki, the software of Wikipedia, is at ledge and free culture in the world's first Open the center of the development of innovative fea- Source Store. Beside Club-Mate, Bionade and tures and extensions. In this workshop at least four beer, open WLAN access should round out the wel- MediaWiki extension will be discussed: Semantic come in advance to WOS4. Highlights of the activi- MediaWiki (machine-readable annotations of wiki ties of the newthinking network in the areas of content), Wikidata / WiktionaryZ (structured data in Social Software, Open Source Strategies, a wiki), LiquidThreads (a new model for discussion Knowledge Management and free media produc- pages), Wikiwyg (WYSIWYG in wiki mode) tion will be presented in light of concrete projects Related: Panel “Quality Management in Free such as netzpolitik.org, Deepamehta, Drupal and Content,” Workshop “Wikiforschersymposium,” median studio. Friday, 15 September 2006, 10:00, Workshop Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 19:00, c-base Room WaveLoeten Featuring Cooperatives for Open Culture compli- This is a weekly wireless LAN workshop. Today the ant businesses international wireless community will gather and Roland Alton-Scheidl, PUBLIC VOICE Lab & get ready for WOS4. Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 13:00, Workshop Ownership matters. In the era of Web 2.0, compa- Room Wiki 2.0 nies are being traded again for millions. But who The Most Powerful Extensions for MediaWiki are the beneficiaries? Users give away their con- Erik Moeller, Journalist, Wikipedia Author and tent, their profiles, their preferences. The profits Developer, Berlin are being consumed by somebody else: anony- mous or strategic shareholders. The users remain
20 with the working-poor. Two centuries Berlin ago, the movement of co-operatives Free culture is a very recent develop- started in Scotland with "villages of ment in cultural production but in the co-operation" where workers would meantime already a movement. In drag themselves out of poverty by this workshop we want to brainstorm growing their own food, making their and exchange ideas on which ways own clothes and ultimately becoming we can help to promote free culture. self-governing. Today, cooperative What can we learn from the environ- institutions have a predominant mar- mental movement, what of the coun- ket share in the retail banking and ter cultures of the last century? What insurance sectors in many countries. images and metaphors do we need to Nobody can buy or sell the co-opera- express the necessity and benefits of tive as a whole, and the shareholders free cultural development? What have democratic rights to control the forms of online and offline actions board and the chance to influence the can we engage in, and how can we visions. At WOS4, we would like to effectively develop and share ideas present the cooperative as an appro- globally? priate business environment for open culture projects. Friday, 15 September 2006, 15:00, Workshop Room Friday, 15 September 2006, 13:00, Free Content Licensing Issues Workshop Room Friday, 15 September, 15:00, Free Culture Activism Workshop Room Markus Beckedahl, newthinking Chair: Vera Franz, Information Pro- communications & netzpolitik.org, gramme, Open Society Institute, London
21 Participants include Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Friday, 15 September 2006, 17:00, Workshop Room Law School, & Founder of Creative Commons GPLv3: Updating the GNU GPL Benjamin Mako Hill, MIT Media Lab, Debian, Free Software Foudation Europe, Ubuntu, FreedomDefined.org, Cambridge, MA Georg Greve: "Thwarting DRM" Paul Keller, Waag Society & Creative Commons The new provisions in GPLv3 for protecting user Netherlands, Amsterdam freedom in DRM situations have been a source of controversy and sometimes confusion. It is vital In recent years, the use of free content licences that the GNU GPL does not allow DRM to fetter the has increased dramatically. For example, the num- freedoms that the GNU GPL exists to preserve – ber of Creative Commons (CC) licenced works on but it is also vital that the new provisions not inter- the Internet has grown from one million in 2003 to fere with legitimate uses of technology. Drawing 140 million in 2006. Several major archives, univer- this line is difficult and requires discussion and sities and broadcasting stations have adopted free input from the community. Greve will describe the licencing practices. With success comes controver- proposed wording and the general aims to stimula- sy. This panel will touch upon the debate between te informed debate. 'pragmatists' and 'idealists' in the free content movement, but also look at more specific issues Ciaran O'Riordan: “Explanation and review of the such as the interoperability of free content licen- public consultation”. The key to success for the ces, the soon to be published CC non-commercial GPLv3 is to maximise public input. The free soft- guidelines, the relation between free content licen- ware community has never drafted a licence ces and digital rights management, and the future collectively before, so this is a completely new pro- of the CC developing nations licence. ject. This could also be the reason that the main- stream media has often forgot to inform people that they can have their say in the licence drafting. O'Riordan will explain the process, why the process
22 is designed the way it is, how to par- prietary, open source and free cultu- ticipate, and what can be learned for re communities and the grey areas future licence drafting processes. within so-called open communities, The two half-hour presentations will be businesses, products and services, as followed by a Q & A on the main chan- well as some practical tips on how ges in GPLv3 with Greve, O'Riordan, proprietary vendors/products can and members of FSF Latin America. come to embrace openness in a variety of forms. Related: Workshop “Free Content Licensing Issues” Related: Keynote “The Read-Write Society,” Workshop “Free Content Saturday, 16 September 2006, 13:00, Licensing Issues” Workshop Room iCommons Saturday, 16 September 2006, 15:00, Heather Ford, Executive Director Workshop Room iCommons, Capetown, South Africa Are Open APIs the new Freedom or the new Dependency? This 'session' will be structured as a Detlef Borchers, Free-Lance dynamic podcast interview featuring Journalist, Metten, Germany Lawrence Lessig from Creative Commons and Aral Balkan from The workshop will continue the deba- OSFlash.org, with inserts by mem- te on privacy, intellectual property bers of the iCommons community. and autonomy from the morning ses- The subject of the debate is concer- sion on “Open APIs.” ned with the interface between pro- Related: Panel “Open APIs”
23 Saturday, 16 September, 17:00 at the c-phere Discussants: James Love, Consumer Project on mimoSa – Urban Intervention and Information Technology, Washington, DC; Cornelia Kutterer, Correctional Machine BEUC The European Consumers' Organisation, Tatiana Wells & Ricardo Ruiz, Pipa, Rio Grande do Brussels Norte, Brazil The second part will focus on another key area: Since October 2005 mimoSa maps different Brazilian models for funding medical research. and world cities by urban interventions that aim to interfere with the current mediascape and people's Discussants: Andrea Glorioso, Researcher, creative reinvention of media and technologies to Politecnico di Torino, Independent consultant, reveal places, people and their tales. Tati and Ricardo FLOSS Technology; Philippe Aigrain, CEO, will conclude their residency at Tesla by presenting Sopinspace – Society for Public Information a mapping of Brazilian new media groups, festivals, Spaces, Paris arts and activism, connecting independent, govern- mental, community and private initiatives. The Paris Accord is a document still very much in its infancy and consisting of comments and sugge- Related: Panel “Brazil, the Free Culture Nation” stions by consumers and people from the creative community alike (representing a wide range of dis- Sunday, 17 September 2006, 11:00 - 18:00, ciplines, from medicine through music, film and Humboldt University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum scholarly publishing). The aim of the Accord is to Paris Accord: Music & Medical Research establish a set of principles that recognize the crea- The workshop consists of two parts. The first part tive community's desire to earn a living, the inte- will introduce the Paris Accord and discuss one key rest of the public in obtaining affordable access to area: collective agreements on music compositions works, and the interests of both parties in suppor- and recordings. ting an environment for creativity and innovation.
24 Related: Panel “Open Source Ukraine; Svetozara Petkova, Bulgaria; Biotechnology,” Panel “Paris Accord: Stefan Gavrilescu, Romania and Composers, Performers and the Biljana Joanidis, Macedonia. Public” Related: Panel “EU Copyright Sunday, 17 September 2006, 11- Directive, Review and 18:00, Humboldt University Berlin, Implementation” Schrödinger Zentrum EUCD in Accession States & Sunday, 17 September 2006, 11:00 - Lobbying 18:00, Humboldt University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum In the first part of this workshop, Ian Wikiforschersymposium Brown and Urs Gasser will introduce Martin Haase, Board Member and discuss the EUCD Best Practice Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Guide. (Wikipedia-handle maha), Professor of Linguistics, University Bamberg In the afternoon, Elmar Geese and Markus Beckedahl will talk about Das wissenschaftliche Fachkolloquium their lobbying experiences and about mit Wikipediaforschern hat zum Ziel dos and don'ts. How does lobbying das Kennenlernen der Forschenden work? How can we get support for und den Austausch über ihre Projekte, our positions without the big budgets Vorhaben und Arbeiten, das Anstoßen the industry has? und die Koordination von Forschungs- projekten und die Schaffung eines Participants include Iryna Kuchma, Verbundes „Wikiforschung“. Die
25 Veranstaltung wendet sich vor allem an Forscher and non-goals of the project, identify stakeholders, in Deutschland, die zum Beispiel bei der sketch workpackages and set up the proposal writ- Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft oder der ing procedure. Participants should bring commit- Volkswagenstiftung antragsberechtigt sind. ment for being active in the proposal writing phase. Related: Panel „Quality Management in Free Content,” Workshop “Wiki 2.0: The Most Powerful Sunday, 17 September 2006, 11:00 -17:00, (locati- Extensions for MediaWiki” on to be announced) ALAC Meeting Sunday, 17 September 2006, 11-18:00, Humboldt Help to strengthen Civil Rights and Consumer University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum Protection in ICANN's policies! EU-Project Annette Mühlberg, ALAC Chair Roland Alton-Scheidl, PUBLIC VOICE Lab, Project Lead RegisteredCommons.org, Vorarlberg This workshop will be run by the European mem- University of Applied Sciences bers of ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and by European civil society organisations The European Commission runs several programs who want to get involved in Internet Corporation for supporting research, development and networ- for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) poli- king IT and media. Currently, there is an open call cies. The job of the At-Large Advisory Committee is for eContentPlus, with deadline on October 19th to be the voice of the individual Internet users in 2006. The work programme aims at reinforcing ICANN (for more information: cooperation between digital content stakeholders http://icannalac.org/). and will fund a thematic network on public domain and related issues. Creative Commons is explicitly mentioned. In the workshop we will define goals
26 tal artists. It is a work of art as well Specials as a platform for other artists to create works. It also combines the Columbia Hall, throughout the element of content with the element conference of networking. Each Hive device is Burn Station capable of gathering content (through webcams, microphones, sensors) and Burn Station is a mobile copying sta- disseminating it (web server, tion which – as it travels through audio/video live streams, bluetooth, suburban spaces – supports the free wlan). At the same time each Hive distribution of music and sound. It is device also acts as a node in the net- software as well as a local network. work, which means that it is capable But above all Burn Station is a social of storing and forwarding data. event which congregates people together to listen, select and copy net Related: Panel „Freedom Expanded” label and net radio audio files under a Copyleft Licence. OLSR Network Experiment All over the conference venue, Hive Network throughout the conference All over the conference venue, throughout the conference At WOS3, the European free wireless network community set up the lar- Hive Networks is an organisation that gest mobile ad-hoc mesh network to is liberating commonly available date. What was intended as a tempo- embedded computers for use by digi- ral experiment just kept going and is
27 still running today. At WOS4, Berlin Freifunk will procedure for the community. Creative work beco- help you install the Optimized Link State Routing mes verifiable through hash coding and secure protocol (OLSR) and expericence the OLSR timestamps. Join us to celebrate our first registra- Network Experiment hands-on. tions, the German translation of Lawrence Lessig's most recent book "Free Culture" and a live perfor- Visual Berlin mance of our new anthem for information free- Columbia Hall and Columbia Club, throughout the dom: The “Tuxedo Blues.” conference Related: Panel “Business and the Commons,” Visual Berlin Workshop “iCommons,” Workshop “Free Content Visual Berlin e.V. is a community of video artists Licensing Issues” and VJs living in Berlin and Brandenburg and involved with collaborative projects and exchanges Friday, 15 September, 20:30, Tesla with the regional and international scene of visua- Picturing Free Knowledge I: Image Banks lists. At WOS4, Visual Berlin provides the moving Starting from the debate on copyrights, the videos visual design of the conference and will rock your in the programme ask for the power relations in eyes at the Netlabel Parties. image production and distribution. Which pictures dominate the discourse of the media? How can images be created and distributed outside copy- Friday, 15 September, 19:00, right obligations? What does the enormous image Columbia Club production in online video communities such as Launch RegisteredCommons.org YouTube mean? As a result of a research project, RegisteredCommons.org advances the potential of The first programme takes existing images as its open licensing by providing a trusted registration starting point: Images and their sources are reflec-
28 ted in different contexts, for example, Friday, 15 September, 22:00 the homogenous aethetics of news Columbia Club images or the categories of commer- Netlabel Party: free music, free cul- cial image databases are called into ture, free society question. Twin Peetz feat. Acid Rich (Odrex Music Berlin/Montreal/New York • disrupt Videos by Johanna Billing, Nina (jahtari, Leipzig) • brain (c-base: dar- Fischer / Maroan el Sani, Nate klab, Berlin) • bruder (p-pack: c-base, Harrison, Marysia Lewandowska / Berlin) • Wesen (Karlsruhe) • Dakee Neil Cummings, Sean Snyder, feat. Mando (Dakee: p-pack, pot-music, VitoriaMario, Florian Zeyfang and Berlin) others. Saturday, 16 September, 15:00, Friday, 15 September, 22:00 Tesla Columbia Hall Berlin Klub Show of Free Knowledge rádio cidadão comum: The Show of Free Knowledge embed- net batucada brasileira on free and ded into the conference on Saturday pirated music. Ricardo Ruiz and afternoon, will be directed at a much Tatiana Wells mixing streams from larger and younger audience than the Brasilian radio stations. conference itself. In cooperation with the „Year of Informatics“ by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the well-known TV moderator Helge Haas (ARD: Q21 , Kopfball) the spirit
29 of free knowledge, its culture and many of the Saturday, 16 September, 22:00 Tesla Klub issues discussed at the conference will be presen- MyTube & YourSpace ted in an entertaining, yet at the same time enligh- by DJ Hugo Chavez & VJ Ahmadinejad. Serhat tening way. Köksal stirs up mass culture: orientalism, pop, politics and folklore collide. Saturday, 16 September, 20:00, Columbia Hall Award Ceremony „Schreibrecht 2006“ Saturday, 16 September, 22:30, Columbia Club Telepolis and a number of German privacy NGOs Screening of "The Codebreakers" have conducted a short-story competition on the A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and future of human rights. In a brief ceremony the Development organisers will hand the award to the lucky winner. © UNDP-APDIP, 2006, 40 minutes
Saturday, 16 September, 20:30, Tesla The documentary “The Codebreakers” investigates Picturing Free Knowledge II: Image Agents how poor countries are using FOSS applications for 'Image Agents,' the second video programme cura- development. The crew of independent producers ted by Vera Tollmann, compiles video works that went to nearly a dozen countries around the world make productive use of found footage or pursue to see how the adoption of FOSS presents opportu- new concepts for media knowledge production. The nities for industry and capacity development, soft- programme is about the appropriation of visual ware piracy reduction, and localization and custo- technologies, formats and styles. Videos by Anna mization for diverse cultural and development La Chocha, Anja Kirschner, Dariusz Kowalski, TV- needs. TV, Tobias Werkner and others.
30 Stories from The Codebreakers include computer and Internet access for school children in Africa, reaching the poor in Brazil, tortoise breeding pro- grammes in the Galapagos, connecting villages in Spain, and disaster management in Sri Lanka. The documentary also includes interviews from key figures around the world.
Saturday, 16 September, 22:30, Columbia Club Netlabel Party: Free music, free culture,free society Mo Sauer (phlow, Cologne) • Ignacio (platoniq: Burn Station, Barcelona) • Favela Funk MCs (Favelafunk, Berlin) • Red Robin (Pentagonik, Berlin) • Fussel (Zoikmusic, Hamburg) • Joseph Boys (p-pack: copy- can, Berlin)
Netlabel Party: Free music, free culture,free society Saturday, 16 September, 22:30, Columbia Club
31 Schedule
Wednesday, 13 September 2006 – Pre-Conference Events
10:00 - 20:00 Workshop Art Tesla & Copyrights 14:00 - 19:00 newthinking WOS4 Warmup new thinking 19:00 WaveLoeten c-base
Thursday, 14 September 2006
Columbia Club Columbia Hall Workshops 12:00 Opening Speeches 13:00 Freedom Expanded Wiki 2.0: The Most Power- ful Extensions for MediaWiki 15:00 Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint? 17:00 Art & Copyright 19:00 Break Break Break 20:00 Information Freedom Rules
32 Friday, 15 September 2006
Columbia Club Columbia Hall Workshops Specials 10:00 Open Source Featuring Cooperatives Biotechnology for Open Culture compliant businesses 12:00 Break Break Break 13:00 Quality Management Free Culture Activism in Free Content 15:00 Open Spectrum Free Content Licensing Issues 17:00 Business and the GPLv3 Commons 19:00 Launch Registered Break Break Commons.org 20:00 The Read-Write Society 20:30 Picturing Free Knowledge I: Image Banks 22:30 Netlabel Party I. rádio cidadão comum: net batucada brasil- eira on free and pirated music at Tesla Klub
33 Saturday, 16 September 2006
Columbia Club Columbia Hall Workshops Specials 10:00 Open APIs 12:00 Break Break Break 13:00 Paris Accord: Com- iCommons posers, Performers and the Public 15:00 EU Copyright Directive, Show des Freien Are Open APIs the Review and Wissens new Freedom or the Implementation new Dependency? 17:00 The Future of mimoSa Free Software presentation, c-phere 19:00 Break Break 20:00 Preisverleihung „Schreibrecht 2006“ 20:10 Brazil, the Free Culture Nation 20:30 Picturing Free Knowledge II: Image Agents 22:30 Netlabel Party II Screening of ”MyTube & Yourspace“ ”The Codebreakers“ by DJ Hogo Chavez & VJ Ahamadinejad at Tesla Klub
34 Sunday, 17 September 2006 – Post-Conference Meetings
11:00 - 18:00 Paris Accord Humboldt University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum 11:00 - 18:00 EUCD & Lobbying Humboldt University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum 11:00 - 18:00 Wikiforschersymposium Humboldt University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum 11:00 - 18:00 EU-Project Workshop Humboldt University Berlin, Schrödinger Zentrum 11:00 - 18:00 ALAC Meeting tba
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