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Collective Conditions for Re-Use (CC4r)

Femke Snelting — 2021-05-25T13:32:19Z

The CC4r articulates conditions for re-using authored materials. It is inspired by the principles of Free Culture but tries to respond to a growing discomfort with licenses that remain bound to the idea of authorship as ownership and which rely on an universalist approach to openness. The CC4r considers authorship instead to be already part of a collective cultural effort and wants to remind current and future authors of the social and historical conditions that may be reasons for refraining from release and re-use of a work.

In an on-line session organised in collaboration with Severine Dusollier (SciencesPo, Paris), we will close-read and comment this first version of the CC4r in preparation of a new release.

Meeting link: https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/fem-wjx-dcj
Agenda and notes: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/cc4r.review

View online : https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r....

Authors of the future @ Piksel Cyber Salon @ Ars Electronica

Peter Westenberg — 2020-09-01T18:14:41Z

Constant presents the project Authors of the future in the exhibition Copy Paste that is curated by Antonio Roberts and was first shown as part of this years Piksel festival in Norway.
Now it is planted in the electronic Kepplers Garden program of Ars Electronica as AEGardenBERGEN

The full timetable is here.

On Saturday 12 September 12, 2020 between 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm the program retakes the Constant lecture Authors of the Future. Re-imagining Copyleft. This will be followed by a Q+A session.

"If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in collage, adopting the style of an artist, or simply being inspired by the work of an artist. This natural process of copying, taught to us at every stage of our artistic development, is burdened by a very complex and messy set of laws and social conventions which define and limit how we can use copying within our practices. These don't take into account exceptions or nuances, and come from a historical world where artworks were scarce physical objects, and don't translate well into a world where culture is abundant and can be accessed and copied at will."
[https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/copy-paste-curators-tour/]

More info about Authors of the Future: http://constantvzw.org/site/Authors-of-the-future-Re-imagining-Copyleft.html

View online : https://ars.electronica.art/keplers...

Authors of the future

Peter Westenberg — 2020-07-10T14:50:01Z

Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and individualism. It conceives creations as original works, making collective, networked practices difficult to fit. Within that legal and ideological framework, Copyleft, Open Content Licenses or Free Culture Licensing introduced a different view of authorship, opening up the possibility for a re-imagining of authorship as a collective, feminist, webbed practice. But over time, some of the initial spark and potentiality of Free Culture licensing has been normalized and its problems and omissions have become increasingly apparent.

Authors of the future @ Copy Paste

Peter Westenberg — 2020-05-12T18:03:07Z

Constant presents the project Authors of the future in the exhibition Copy Paste that is curated by Antonio Roberts as part of this years Piksel festival in Norway. If you will be in Bergen on the 6th of June you could attend to a streaming presentation we will do at 18:00

Info about Authors of the Future: http://constantvzw.org/site/Authors-of-the-future-Re-imagining-Copyleft.html

View online : https://piksel.no

Right the Right: Re-imagining copyleft

Femke Snelting — 2019-10-21T07:16:48Z

Constant will contribute to Right the Right, a three day event about the crisis in copyright. The contribution is a report on Authors of the Future. During this study day we tried to make a start with reimagining copyleft as a decolonial, feminist and collective practice.

Right the Right asks questions like, "So in the future will the assertions of intellectual property rights decide what music is created and who can listen to it? How are power relations distributed in times of platform economics and streaming services? How could protective and utilization models be redesigned in the interest of art and the public? What rights and regulations make sense in a globalized world?"

View online : https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/proj...

Authors of the future: Re-imagining Copyleft

Femke Snelting — 2019-08-27T07:48:39Z

Can we invent licences that are based on collective creative practices, in which cooperation between machine and biological authors, need not be an exception? How could attribution be a form of situated genealogy, rather than accounting for heritage through listing names of contributing individuals? In what way can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and in what way could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Or perhaps we should think of very different strategies?

With contributions from amongst others:

Severine Dusollier (SciencesPo, Paris): Inclusive Copyright
Aymeric Mansoux (XPUB, Rotterdam): Free Only-if
Eva Weinmayr (Pirate Library/And-And Publishing, London): Situated collective authorship
Daniel Blanga Gubbay (KFDA, Brussels): Potential authorship

→ Preparatory materials (extended introduction, reader, programme)

This studyday is organised in dialogue with Cinema Sauvages and Severine Dusollier and hosted by ISELP. Please let us know if you are interested in participating: femke@constantvzw.org