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"Make Media, Make Trouble: Hacking the Infocalypse" Luther Blisset
This article form interactivist.net is about the Telestreet movement in Italy.
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Raiding the 20th Century by DJ Food
Raiding the 20th Century. Directed & mixed by Strictly Kev • Based around a book by Paul Morley
Paul Morley recorded by Jeff Knowler • a fLeXuS eVent
A DJ FOOD PRODUCTION
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How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop
This text is an interview done with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee by Kembrew McLeod from the stay free magazin.
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Cultural politics in Multicultural EUROPE!
How does public cultural policy deal with the facts, and why is EUROPE bowing to the Muslim threat? A case in point: Louzla Darabi
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Artliberated features KLF
The K Foundation art award worst artist of the year was given to Rachel Whiteread out side the Tate Gallery on the evening of the 23rd November 1994. Rachel Whiteread had just been rewarded with the Turner Prize award for best British Contemporary artist of £20,000. When she first refused the prize of £40,000 the K Foundation promised to burn the money.... Read the whole story about the K Foundation and KLF
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The Videogame in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This essey Matt Barton gives an interesting background to the development of video games in the light of patens and intellectual property, It show how necessary the rather free development of the game culture has been and how essential this idea is for innovation.
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Greenskeepers Appropriates footage
Chicago-based rock/house/funk act The Greenskeepers makes Buffalo Bill, the cross-fleshing killer from the film The Silence of the Lambs, sing "put the lotion in the basket".
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Silent Theft The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
In this book David Bollier writes about how the commercial octopus stretches it arms over the commons. The commons that very few seem willing to protect and many are willing to give away for short-term interests. He contextualize it and shows ways to reclaim the commonwealth.
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Free Culture
Keynote from OSCON 2002
by Lawrence Lessig
Freedom is resistance - if you can't fight for your freedom you don't deserve it
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Sex with Christ's corpse
On 11 July 1977, the newspaper Gay News was convicted of blasphemous libel for publishing James Kirkup's poem, The Love that Dares To Speak Its Name. This great poem still remains illegal in Britain.
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Lars Bang Larsen and Sture Johannesson exchanging
Read this talk with Sture Johannesson and Lars Bang Larsen. Sture Johannesson produced psychedelic art that was angry and fundamentally radical. His controversial work was stopped and censored by the people in power and his carrier obstructed from the sixties onwards. Lars Bang Larsen is a theorist and curator who is based in Copenhagen
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CENSORSHIP 2000
In this classical text from 2000 John Barlow who is co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes about censorship on the Internet.
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Essential Reading: The State of Copyright Activism
The State of Copyright Activism was written by Siva Vaidhyanathan in 2004. He is the Director of Communication Studies at New York University and in this essey he writes about how the current copyright system’s threats free speech, intellectual freedom, and the free flow of information. This text point to many importent cases of IP.
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Essential Reading: A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism For the Net?
This Essay by James Boyle written in 1997 outlines a politics of intellectual property. "I claimed that our intellectual property discourse has structural tendencies towards over-protection, rather than under protection. To combat that tendency, as well as to prevent the formation and rigidification of a set of rules crafted by and for the largest stakeholders, I argued that we need a politics of intellectual property. Using the environmental movement as an analogy..."
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Nataša -- CAE -- Art as Next Terrorist Suspect -- 11.19.04
Art as Next Terrorist Suspect
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Nataša Petrešin
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Who is Snow White? by Gunilla Sköld Feiler
Last winter we were all witness to an art scandal. An Israeli ambassador’s attack on the installation Snow White and the Madness of Truth quickly became a world event that took on a life of its own. At the height of the controversy, Google yielded 128,000 hits related to it. Now the media coverage has faded away and the ambassador has long returned home. In an unusually frank and thoughtful look back, Gunilla Sköld Feiler, one of the two artists involved, recaps and interprets what happened.
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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
by A.S.Ambulanzen
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Why Recycle? (A Manifesto)
by Rick Prelinger
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Russia's cult video pirate rescripts Lord of the Rings as gangster film
by Nick Paton Walsh
The Observer, June 22, 2003
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Conceptualizing law and culture (excerpt)
by LAWRENCE LIANG
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Anti-Copyright and Cassette Culture (excerpt)
by Donal McGraith
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THE CASE OF DOROTA NIEZNALSKA
When, more than a year ago, Dorota Nieznalska exhibited her work 'Pasja' in Wyspa Gallery in Gdansk, a scandal erupted. Now the gallery doesn't exist, and the artist was forced to stand trial for her work. The outcome of the lawsuit shocked the whole art world in Poland. We remind the very beginning of the affair and comment on its aftermath.
Forgetting about both: artistic freedom and the freedom of speech, the rights to which are enshrined in the constitution, the court has made a grave mistake - Raster's exlusive: Aneta Szylak and Grzegorz Klaman, who supported the defense of the artist in court, comment from Gdansk on the unjust conviction of Dorota Nieznalska.
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Rome, 4 / 10 / 2000
The axe of censorship falls on the Roman Civic Network
AvAnA Net and The Thing Rome censored by the City of Rome
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