<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To confess, I visited OVC. And to confess, I had a presentation, and to confess I skipped some of the talks. My free choice moved towards the city of New York and a bicycle ride to Williamsburg during Gabriellas talk, thanks it was streamed online to catch up later. What was I missing? <div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Democracy and Innovation, anyone, anywhere, everyone, everywhere ..." - Yes, this was actually one of the first statements of Yochai Benkler in his keynote, and so he continued - "networked information economy - radically decentralized, physical capital and human capabilitiies ... distributed action, solutions, experimentation, adaptation ... from mountain bikes to free software, millions of people trying to find a solution, ... innovation comes from a network of conntected people, anyone is allowed to say I have an idea, a project, ... faster learning and innovation ... distributed learning means that someone with the right skills will look at the problem ... cultural democracy ..." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">In this <i>wonderful</i> dream the commons will take "control over the physical pipes, control over logical platforms and tools [that] can constrain creativity, control over existing cultural materials". </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">MOZILLA in the following session was answering the question what happens to video when it gets connected to the web, when it gets in the structure the web is used to, yes, in the "spirit of the web". What happens is clear, when it is written in the open source with the right technology, the video will be open for remix without permission. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Of course, the next session had to be on fair use. To be honest this was one of the sessions where I was most curious about. I had my doubts and I still have my doubts about the understanding of "fair use", which just might come from my background as a filmmaker as well as my latest experience with the documentary "Mustafa". OVC seems to be the right place for an answer and actually here I listened to one of the best sessions (I confess again): It was Corynne McSherry - Staff Lawyer, Electronic Frontier Foundation - who made it very clear how easy it is to get a work down from the Internet. It is just a simple email referring to copyright or trademark infringements. Just a simple complain. ...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Yes, there was lots of interesting things going on at the OVC - a hype industry, a hype "open" model, announcements of "openness" in software, codecs, very excited and engaged speeches and the look to far away and distant countries.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">My session went well, cut a little bit short by very polite "metadata" people, reminding that OVC was really more about an industry meeting and their tools and gadgets. (And by the way it was the release of the iPhone 3G S that day). There were 4 or 5 monitors with video works running in loops in front of the information desk. Perry's work, announced, but did not appear. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Andreas</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div></span><br></div></div></body></html>