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Publicly financed content
18 March 13.00 – 15.00 - Teekenzaal
Speakers: Michel Mol, (Internet coördinator, Netherlands Broadcasting
Corporation, omroep.nl), representatives of European Creative Commons projects
and Joichi Ito. The session is moderated
by Geert Lovink.
During the High Level Conference on the future of ICT policies (Amsterdam, 30 September 2004) it was concluded (PDF) that the EU should become a global leader in content. One of the main instruments to accomplish this is by developing a content market and stimulate innovative use of content by making publicly financed content public.
The past few months this ambition was also ventilated by parliamentarians in the Netherlands and abroad. In the UK the BBC is opening up the content of it’s Archives and in Amsterdam plans have emerged to open a European Internet Archive. Time for a public agenda on this theme.
Publicly Financed Content is the last few months linked with the use of the revolutionary Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. It builts upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. During the workshop Creative Commons representatives from various EU countries will unveil their plans for European cooperation and collaboration. Joichi Ito (founder and CEO of Neoteny) will react on these plans.
In the second part of the workshop, Michel Mol will give his stance on Publicly Financed Content after which participants (in total max 50 ) will discuss in a table setting questions like:
- What are the criteria for commercial use of Publicly Financed Content
- Judicial inhibitions for making available Publicly Financed Content
- The pro & cons of using Creative Commons licenses for content
- What should be the EU public content strategy 2010
