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Copyright Law: Information between the commodity and the community

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
373MAPK Z 1 4/H Czech summer
Subject guarantor:
Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ
Name of lecturer(s):
Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to provide a basic bearing in existing legislation, terminology and principles of copyright protecthin with an emphasis on audio-visual pieces.

Mode of study:

The program is an open to contributions relevant to the topics (if interested in presenting, please contact the organzier at 603 794 224 or 608 571 881)

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

Discussion meetings on the current situation in publishing and distributing writings in (predominantly) academic environments.

Prepared and presented by Miloš Vojtěchovský and Matěj Strnad of the FAMU Center for Audio-visual Studies

http://cas.famu.cz in cooperation with Tranzitdisplay

Topics for presentations and discussion:

1. Mobility of information and potential of open or closed networks.

2. Liberal or free access to education and knowledge (open access)

3. Publishing in (academic) digital environments and various models and access to works, publishing and distribution of writings and books.

4. Paths through or around „paywalls“ (from piracy to resident Wikipedia contributors)

The Open Access (OA) Initiative is sometimes metaphorically equated with the far-reaching results of Johan Guttenbergs idea of using the old winemakers press technique for printing books. As the printing press changed manuscripts of that civilization, later questions of origin and intellectual property,value and nature of information have been opened up by proletarizing and democratizing digital network technology. The internet and WWW have increased the chances of laic individuals and communities to participate in artistic and scientific activities and digital networks have shifted the level of mobility, speed of distribution, access to publicity (cultural) content and changed the concept of the writer and intellectual property.

A number of academic and scientific research institutions around the world publish results of intellectual activities (writings, image archives, software, music) in and open access system (Open Access - OA), or (Creative Commons - CC). The motivation of the initiators to this stance and the economic and civil gesture was necessary to offer an alternative to the current market model of communication withing the scientific and artistic community and the economic and ideological system of neoliberalism in general.

The label „open access“ means free access on the public internet allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, review or create links to the complete text of that article, gather indexes as need, tranfer for software data or use for any type of other legal purpose without financial, legal or technical limits with exceptions for those which are an inseparable part of the acquisition of access to the internet itself. Only limits on reproduction and distribution and applications of copyright protection in these should provide the author with control over the integrity of their work and right to proper acknowledgement and acknowledged origin.

The Open Access initiative is the only manner for considering what direction the education system, and scientific and artistic work in the digital age will be taken. This does not run across innovative thinking, if we remember the roll of public libraries, their mission in the pre-digital age was to provide open access, often against the wishes and ambitions of the book and information magnates.

Recommended or required reading:

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Discussion meetings about the current situation in the publication and distribution of writings and books in (predominantly) academic environments.

Prepared and presented by Miloš Vojtěchovský and Matěj Strnad of the FAMU Center for Audio-visual Studies

http://cas.famu.cz in collaboration with Tranzitdisplay

Assessment methods and criteria:

Obligatory attendance and a short essay on one of the module topics.

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Panelists:

Dušan Barok: artists and writer focused on software, art and theory. Born in Bratislava, studied in Rotterdam where he completed studies in Networked Media at the Piet Zwart Institute. He is a founding editor of the web portal Monoskop. http://monoskop.org

Andrea Slováková: Documentary maker, instructor and director of AMU Publishing. She studied Media Studies, Film Research and Documentary Film at FAMU. During 2003-2011 she was one of the orgaznizers of the International Documentary Film Festival ih Jihlava. She is currently preparing the dramaturgy for the Experimental Documentary film section of the festival. She writes about film in a wide range of culture magazines and lectures on the history of documentary film a the Masaryk University Brno. She has filmed a number of documentary films. http://namu.cz

JUDr. Adéla Faladová- Asst. Dir. of the Copyright council at the Czech Republic Ministry of Culture. She regularly represents the Czech Republic abroad, at Work groups for the European Council or in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights at the World Organization of Intellectual Property. She is an external collaborator at the Institute for Copyright, Industrial Property and Competition legislation at the Law Faculty of the Charles University. She regularly lectures at the Institute of Industrial Property Training o the Office of Industrial Property and occasionally for variou cultural and education insitutions.

Other promising attendees: curator, historian and theoritician Jaroslav Anděl, dokumentary maker Jan Šípek and others.

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
06.05.2014 16:00–19:00 VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ M.
paralelka 1
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