<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">
<P>Goedenavond lenden van de Video Vortex community,</P>
<P>Hieronder volgt het definitieve programma van de Economies of the Commons conferentie volgende week in De Balie in Amsterdam en het <BR>voorafgaande seminar bij Beeld en Geluid in Hilversum. Het seminar is inmiddels vrijwel volgeboekt. Indien u belangstelling hebt in deelname is spoedige reservering aanbevolen. U kunt een mailtje sturen naar <A href="mailto:epk@xs4all.nl">epk@xs4all.nl</A> voor aanmelding.</P>
<P>Vriendelijke groet, Johan Oomen<BR>Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid</P>
<P>-------</P>
<P>ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS</P>
<P>Strategieën voor duurzame toegang en creatief hergebruik<BR>van beelden en geluiden op internet</P>
<P><BR>DEFINTIEF PROGRAMMA</P>
<P>Amsterdam & Hilversum 10, 11 & 12 April 2008</P>
<P>Internationale Werkconferentie & Publieke Avondprogramma's<BR>De Balie, Amsterdam, 11 & 12 April 2008</P>
<P>Seminar over Intellectuele Eigendsomsrechten (IPR)<BR>Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum, 10 April 2008</P>
<P><A href="http://www.ecommons.eu/">www.ecommons.eu</A></P>
<P><BR>TICKETS:</P>
<P>passepartout: 25 euro (incl. avondprogramma's)<BR>dagkaart: 15 euro<BR>avondprogramma's: 5 euro</P>
<P>Informatie over het kopen van een passepartout (via De Balie), of om <BR>te registeren voor het seminar (bijna volgeboekt!):<BR><A href="http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?&articleid=215589">www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?&articleid=215589</A></P>
<P><BR>-----------</P>
<P><BR>Over Economies of the Commons:</P>
<P>De Balie, het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Beelden voor <BR>de Toekomst, Stichting Kennisland en het Virtueel Platform organiseren <BR>een internationale conferentie en een publieksprogramma rond de nieuwe <BR>vormen van audiovisuele cultuur die momenteel op internet ontstaan. De <BR>exponentieel groeiende mogelijkheden om publieke toegang te bieden tot <BR>omroeparchieven, audiovisuele collecties van cultuurinstellingen via <BR>internet stimuleren deze nieuwe cultuurvormen. Ook ontstaan nieuwe <BR>vormen van cultuurproductie waarin audiovisuele werken worden <BR>uitgewisseld, hergebruikt en gecombineerd tot nieuwe werken en worden <BR>via internet meer rechtstreekse verbindingen tussen maker en publiek <BR>tot stand gebracht.</P>
<P>De conferentie richt zich in het bijzonder op de vraag naar de <BR>duurzaamheid van deze nieuwe audiovisuele collecties op internet en de <BR>mogelijkheden om deze te kunnen openen voor creatief hergebruik en <BR>nieuwe cultuurproductie.</P>
<P>Terwijl de activiteit op dit terrein zeer groot is en een zeer breed <BR>schala aan actoren omvat, waaronder nationale archieven, <BR>omroeporganisaties, maar ook professionele cultuurproducenten en <BR>instellingen, tot en met informele p2p bestandsuitwisselingsprojecten, <BR>blijft de duurzaamheid van al die collecties on-line zeer ongewis. <BR>Massieve publieke investeringen in deze audiovisuele bronnen is een <BR>voor de hand liggende oplossing, met al even duidelijke nadelen. <BR>Economies of the Commons onderzoekt welke alternatieve economische <BR>modellen voorhanden zijn, of ontwikkeld kunnen worden, die deze <BR>onschatbaar waardevolle audiovisuele collecties op internet duurzaam <BR>kunnen maken. Wellicht moeten we daarvoor de paradoxale vraag <BR>beantwoorden wat een geschikt business model zou kunnen zijn voor de <BR>'digital commons', voor het digitale publieke domein?</P>
<P>Economies of the Commons richt zich op drie kernkwesties: strategieën <BR>voor duurzaamheid, nieuwe modellen en vormen van waarde-creatie, en <BR>het potentieel van creatief hergebruik van de publieke digitale <BR>bronnen - de 'digital commons'.</P>
<P>Onze belangrijkste vragen zijn:</P>
<P>- Wat voor strategieën zijn beschikbaar om de groei van deze nieuwe <BR>publieke kennisbronnen te bevorderen en hun duurzaamheid op langere <BR>termijn te garanderen?<BR>- Hoe wordt waarde gecreëerd rond de 'digital commons' en hoe kan die <BR>waarde worden aangewend ten behoeve van het publiek belang?<BR>- Hoe kunnen deze digitale bronnen worden geactiveerd als een <BR>creatieve drijfkracht voor de hedendaagse cultuur, hoe kan het <BR>hergebruik van deze ongekend rijke digitale bronnen worden ondersteund <BR>en gestimuleerd?</P>
<P>De voertaal van de conferentie is Engels</P>
<P><A href="http://www.ecommons.eu/">www.ecommons.eu</A></P>
<P>-----------</P>
<P>Programma-overzicht per onderdeel:</P>
<P>-----------</P>
<P>Legal seminar on audiovisual archives and Intellectual Property Rights</P>
<P>Location: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum<BR>Thursday April 10, 2008 - 10.00 - 17.00 hrs</P>
<P>Subject<BR>Legal issues on digitisation and reuse of audiovisual content. The <BR>legal seminar includes two workshops on orphan works and clearing <BR>rights, and secondly on archives and open content publishing.</P>
<P>Speakers: Hubert Best (Best&Soames / FOCAL), M.H. Elferink (Utrecht <BR>University), Herkko Hietanen (Turre Legal), Mieke Lauwens (Netherlands <BR>Inst. for Sound and Vision), Meike Richter (Journalist, Hamburg) <BR>Sebastian Lütgert (Open content activist, Berlin).</P>
<P>9:00 Doors open</P>
<P>9:30 Welcome (Sem Bakker)</P>
<P> Lectures:<BR>9:45 – 10:15 Lecture: Hubert Best<BR>10:15 – 10:45 Lecture: Mirjam Elferink<BR>10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break<BR>11:15 – 11:45 Lecture: Herkko Hietanen<BR>11:45 – 12:15 Lecture: Sebastian Lütgert<BR>12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break<BR>13:15 – 13:35 Lecture: Meike Richter<BR>13:35 – 13:55 Lecture: Mieke Lauwers</P>
<P>14:00 – 16:15 Workshops:<BR> * The problem of orphan works and clearing rights<BR> * Archives and open content licensing</P>
<P><BR>16:15 Closing & drinks</P>
<P><BR>-----------</P>
<P><BR>Economies of the Commons Conference: Day I</P>
<P>Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam<BR>Friday April 11, 2008 - 10 - 18.00 hrs</P>
<P>10.00: Opening and Welcome</P>
<P>10.30: Conference Keynote:<BR>Peter Kaufman: The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the <BR>Digital Age</P>
<P>11.30: Panel 1: Audiovisual Archives<BR>Audiovisual archives are at the beginning of a profound change in the <BR>way that they have traditionally operated for the last fifty years. <BR>This change is primarily the result of two key developments: [1] <BR>Digitisation of analogue material becoming an integral part of the <BR>working processes; and [2] New online services that emerge, such as <BR>video on demand and online repositories for education.<BR>Speakers:<BR>Pelle Snickars (SLBA), Poppy Simpson (BFI Screenonline), Tobias <BR>Golodnoff (Dansk Culturarv), Roei Amit (INA).</P>
<P>13.00: Lunch break</P>
<P>14.00: Panel 2: Commons-based Peer Production<BR>The digital world of internet is increasingly conceptualised as an <BR>expanding universe of content that not just sits there to be looked <BR>at, but that also can be re-used to create even more content. Much <BR>research has already been devoted to user-generated content and the <BR>processes through which that content is produced. But what are the <BR>economies of peer production? How do new developments compare to firm <BR>production and market-based production?<BR>Speakers:<BR>Felix Stalder (Open Flows), Jamie King (Steal This Film), Jon Phillips <BR>(Creative Commons), Sebastian Lütgert (oil21.org)<BR>Moderator: Paul Keller (Kennisland)</P>
<P>15.30 Coffee break</P>
<P>15.45: Panel 3: European Digital Library<BR>Individual efforts cannot meet the overarching requirements leading to <BR>ubiquitous access on a pan-European scale and do not accumulate to the <BR>critical mass needed to steer the research and development roadmap <BR>advocated by the industry. This gap is acknowledged by policy makers. <BR>Now European and national governments need to take responsibility to <BR>close the gap.<BR>Speakers:<BR>Paul Doorenbosch (KB - National Library of The Netherlands), Jill <BR>Cousins (Director European Digital Library), Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht <BR>University/ case: Video Active), Georg Eckes (Deutsches Filminstitut / <BR>case: European Film Gateway)</P>
<P>17.15: Wrap up first conference day</P>
<P><BR>-----------</P>
<P><BR>Public Keynotes & Responses Friday April 11, 2008 - 20.30 - 22.30</P>
<P>Sustainable Images for the Future</P>
<P>Introduction<BR>The Friday night of the Economies of the Commons conference is <BR>dedicated to Images for the Future and the Commons. Edwin van Huis <BR>(Director General of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) <BR>will provide the introduction about the largest digitisation project <BR>in the Netherlands, Images for the Future.</P>
<P>Public Keynotes:</P>
<P>Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives): The Audiovisual Commons and the <BR>Social Contract<BR>Rick Prelinger will focus on the future of archives demonstrated by <BR>the case of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 48.000 films of <BR>which a central selection has been added to the Library of Congress.</P>
<P>David Bollier (On the Commons): The Commons as a New Sector of Value-<BR>creation<BR>David Bolier speaks on the subject of value creation in open networks <BR>and how to link the Commons with government and industry.</P>
<P>Debate<BR>We end the session with a panel discussion with the speakers, joined <BR>by Emjay Rechsteiner of the Dutch Filmmuseum about the Commons and <BR>Dutch audiovisual archives.</P>
<P>Moderator: Joeri van den Steenhoven (St. Nederland Kennisland)</P>
<P>This evening program is presented in association with Images for the <BR>Future.</P>
<P><BR>-----------</P>
<P>Economies of the Commons Conference: Day II</P>
<P>Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam<BR>Saturday April 12, 2008 - 11 - 18.00 hrs</P>
<P>11.00: Panel 4: Uncommon Business Models<BR>This panel will take on the subject of open business models. The <BR>workshop will be kicked off by two experts from related media <BR>industries that are arguably ahead of the curve.<BR>Speakers:<BR>Jan Velterop, CEO of Knewco and one of the leading experts on Open <BR>Access will give us an insight in the deployment of open business <BR>models in scientific publishing. Over the past couple of years Open <BR>Access has been able to provide a valid and sustainable alternative in <BR>this 7 billion dollar industry.<BR>Jonas Woost, Head of Music at the pioneering music company Lastfm will <BR>pick up from there. In his presentation he will highlight how his <BR>company has successfully generated income streams in an industry that <BR>has shown to be particularly vulnerable in the open environment of the <BR>internet.<BR>Followed by a panel discussion with: Peter Kaufman (Intelligent <BR>Television), Roei Amit (INA), Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) and <BR>Eerde Hovinga (NIBG-tbc).<BR>Moderator: Harry Verwayen (Kennisland)</P>
<P>12.30: Lunch Break</P>
<P>13.30: Panel 5: Intangible Heritage Resources in the (Non-)Western World<BR>In our age of increasing global connectivity, cultural mobility and <BR>digital reproduction, intangible heritage is increasingly being <BR>appreciated, appropriated and exploited. Traditional music styles from <BR>various parts of the world have enchanted numerous musicians, scholars <BR>and admirers all over the world. Still, the preservation and <BR>transmission of intangible heritage faces an abundance of challenges <BR>and difficulties.<BR>Speakers:<BR>Joost Smiers (Prof. em. Political Science of the Arts), Shubha <BR>Chaudhuri (ARCE), Anthony McCann (University of Ulster), Wim van <BR>Zanten (ICTM)</P>
<P>15.00: Coffee Break</P>
<P>15.15: Panel 6: Professional Cultural Producers<BR>This panel addresses the public content zone beyond that of user-<BR>generated-content: the possibilities and problems related to making <BR>professionally produced cultural productions publicly available on the <BR>internet. What kind of revenue models exist for that? How is the <BR>public interest in accessibility squared with the need of <BR>professionals to make a living? What new and alternative distribution <BR>models emerge for professional cultural producers and cultural <BR>institutions?</P>
<P>Speakers:<BR>Florian Schneider (Kein.tv), Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubuweb), Bauke <BR>Freiburg (Fabchannel / Culture Player), Chai Locher (NFTVM), Rick <BR>Prelinger (Prelinger Archives).<BR>Moderator: Eric Kluitenberg</P>
<P><BR>16.45: Coffee Break</P>
<P>17.00: Report from the Legal Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights<BR>Report session of the most important results from the workshop on <BR>orphan works & clearing rights, the workshop on open content <BR>licensing, and the closing debate of the legal seminar on Thursday <BR>April 10.</P>
<P>17.30: Closing Session / Conference wrap up</P>
<P><BR>-----------</P>
<P><BR>Mashup Cinema</P>
<P>Location: De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam<BR>Saturday April 12, 2008 - 21.00 - 00.00</P>
<P>Found footage and the digital commons<BR>Public screening, live cinema & performance program</P>
<P>Found Footage has always been an important source of inspiration for <BR>experimental filmmakers. The use of 'found images' is not just <BR>affordable, it is mostly employed to attach a different meaning <BR>through a new composition of images to existing icons. With materials <BR>found on the floor, in the waste baskets of montage rooms, or in a <BR>dust bin outside the studio, filmmakers are conveying messages, which <BR>besides being pretentious or at times politically charged, can also <BR>simply be funny.<BR>During this special evening about reuse of digital and analogue images <BR>you can expect a presentation by the internet's most renown film <BR>archivist Rick Prelinger. He will present a selection from his <BR>monumental archive of 'sponsored' and 'ephemeral' films about media <BR>publics and media producers from the 1930s to the 1960s, which can be <BR>read as a historical commentary on our contemporary digital media <BR>culture.<BR>Next to this a short-film program has been put together with films <BR>that attach a new meaning to existing analogue film materials.</P>
<P>These screenings are interspersed with short music and sound <BR>performances in which music fragments are mixed live, sampled from <BR>digital remix projects such as ccMixter and Freesound, and historical <BR>sound samples presented by Kenneth Goldsmith (Ubuweb)</P>
<P>Films:</P>
<P>Outer Space<BR>Peter Tscherkassky 10’<BR>Suggesting a convulsive hall of mirrors, Peter Tscherkassky's <BR>widescreen tour de force Outer Space reinvents a 1981 Barbara Hershey <BR>horror vehicle, leaving the original's crystalline surface intact only <BR>to violently shatter its narrative illusion.</P>
<P>L’Arrivée<BR>Peter Tscherkassky 2’<BR>L'Arrivée is Tscherkassky's second homage to the Lumiére-brothers. <BR>First you see the arrival of the film itself, which shows the arrival <BR>of a train at a station. But that train collides with a second train, <BR>causing a violent crash, which leads us to an unexpected third <BR>arrival, the arrival of a beautiful woman – the happy-end.</P>
<P>Light is Calling<BR>Bill Morisson 8’<BR>A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to <BR>Michael Gordon’s 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting <BR>nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an <BR>film.</P>
<P>Beirut Outtakes<BR>Peggy Ahwesh 8’<BR>The cellars of a traditional cinema in the entertainment district of <BR>Beirut are opened after years of being hermetically sealed. Peggy <BR>Awash constructed a veritable time machine out of the film materials <BR>found there, with a spoken montage of old Lebanese drama and western <BR>action movies.</P>
<P>Gravity<BR>Nicholas Provost 6’<BR>The reassuring world of multiplied cinematographic kisses is shattered <BR>by a stroboscopic effect that plunges and looses us into the dizzying <BR>vertigo of the embrace where, as often in Provost’s cinema, love <BR>becomes a passionate battle in which monsters are finally unmasked.</P>
<P>Bitches Brew<BR>Heidrun Holzfeind 11’<BR>Sampled from mostly male directed movies from the 60s to today, the <BR>video shows women who take back control and power, fight off their <BR>attackers or take revenge on their assailants. A man’s nightmare!</P>
<P>The Mashup Cinema program is presented in association with balie cinema</P>
<P>-----------</P>
<P>LOCATIONS:</P>
<P>De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics<BR>Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10<BR>Amsterdam<BR><A href="http://www.debalie.nl/">www.debalie.nl</A></P>
<P>Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision<BR>Sumatralaan 45<BR>Mediapark<BR>Hilversum<BR><A href="http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/">www.beeldengeluid.nl</A></P>
<P>Conference website and dossier with suggested reading materials:<BR><A href="http://www.ecommons.eu/">www.ecommons.eu</A></P>
<P><BR> </P></BODY></HTML>