| Tilman Baumg?rtel on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:36:25 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> Asian Edition. Media piracy conference in the Philippines. |
Hi! It might be a small conference, but it will be dynamite. Yes, it is in the Philippines, where most nettime subscribers will probably never go, but the conference is on a highly relevant topic (at least to nettimers), and it will be dynamite, and the web site is a useful tool, even if people cannot attend. There arent so many postings from South East Asia on this list anyway. So, like, please, give me a break. We had more irrelevant posts on nettime recently. Yours, Tilman --------------------- ASIAN EDITION A Conference on Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in South East Asia Sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Manila, and the UP Film Institute Date: November 24, 2006, 9:00 am ? 5:00 pm, UP Film Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Metro Manila, CMC Auditorium Many Filipinos still remember the "Asian Edition" - a scheme during the Marcos years, when American textbooks were reprinted locally and without paying royalties to the original publishers. Now, ?Asian Edition? serves as title for a conference that will look at the phenomenon of media piracy in South East Asia today. Music, movie and software piracy is one of the most prominent media issues of the digital millennium. In the Philippines it has started a whole underground economy and currently seems to change the way movies and other media products are distributed and consumed products here and in other South East Asian countries. The goal of the workshop is to contribute to an informed discussion of media piracy and issues of Intellectual Property in the age of digital reproduction. Instead of portraying piracy exclusively as a crime against artists and distributors, the proposed workshop will look at piracy as a social, cultural and economic phenomenon. And it will discuss new concepts of addressing ownership of Intellectual Property, such as Creative Commons and Open Source. Dr. Tilman Baumg?rtel, Visiting Professor at the University of the Philippines, organizes the conference. German artist Cornelia Sollfrank, who will participate in the conference, will show her latest works at the Gallery Mag:net Katipunan (next to Rustans, opposite Miriam College). The opening of the show is on November 25 at 6 pm, and will be on show until Nov 31. Participants of the conference include: Raymond Red, film director, Manila Cornelia Sollfrank, artist, Hamburg Raul Pertierra, sociologist, Manila Rolando Tolentino, National University Singapore Volker Grassmuck, writer, Berlin Khavn de la Cruz, film director, Manila More information at: www.asian-edition.org More information on the exhibiton of Cornelia Sollfrank at: http://www.magnet.com.ph/exhibition/katip/2006/11-25.htm The conference is free and open to the public. Dr. Tilman Baumg?rtel Film Institute College of Mass Communication, Plaridel Hall University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City 1101, Philippines office hours: Mo, 12:00 nn - 2:00 pm email: [email protected] www.tilmanbaumgaertel.net # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]