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Free Culture Research Workshop

Harvard Law School October 23, 2009

Sponsored by: Berkman, NEXA, iCommons

Call for Participation

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Agenda

This is a draft agenda and will change as we approach the date of the workshop.

08:00 - 08:30 Welcome: Introduction to event and reiteration of workshop's aims

08:30 - 10:00 Session 1: Master class on free culture research led by 1-2 senior academics

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 2: Introduction of session theme(s) by moderator followed by discussion

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 Session 3: Introduction of session theme(s) by moderator followed by discussion

14:30 - 14:45 Short Break

14:45 -16:15 Session 4: Introduction of session theme(s) by moderator followed by discussion

16:15 - 16:30 Short Break

16:30 - 18:00 Session 5: From ideas to results - how do we tackle the grand challenges?

19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

Agenda Comments: Start at 9:00, cut the morning break by 15 min. Make the welcome shorter (15 min max). Session 5 can be 1 hr.

Notes

• Master Class: organizers will select 2-3 of the submitted essays for review and comment by 1-2 senior academics, followed by discussion on the issues raised by the submissions

• Sessions 2-4: themes identified by organizers based on invited essays. A moderator will introduce the theme for each session and summarize the key points in related essays. Then all participants will be invited to discuss any and all issues pertaining to the theme.

• Session 5: moderator will wrap up the key themes of the workshop and any issues that may have emerged during previous sessions. The floor will then open for all participants to provide additional comments and recommendations on actionable items that could help move research and practice on these issues forward.

• Dinner: TBD

• Day after: if you are a member of the organizing committee and/or have a strong interest in contributing towards concrete deliverables and the organization of next year's event, please reserve some time in the morning for a smaller meeting to discuss these.

Written Submissions

• Philippe Aigrain - Diversity of Attention and Symmetry of Media: A Free Culture Research Agenda (PDF)
• Bodó Balázs - when its truly free: underground content sharing networks as models for sustainable commons based peer networks (PDF)
• Brian Ballentine - Exploring the Role(s) of Ethics in the Future of Free Culture and the Need to Improve Pedagogical Strategies for the Remix Student (Doc)
• Tyng-Ruey Chuang - Artifact, Self, and Collective: Some Thoughts on Free Culture (PDF)
• Julie Cohen - Beyond Free Culture: Configuring the Networked Self (License: CC No Derivatives) (PDF)
• Gabriella Coleman - Anthropological Musings on the Politics of F/OSS (Doc)
• Leonhard Dobusch - Free Culture Communities: Facing Organizational Challenges (Doc)
• Judith Donath
• Mathias Klang - The three main hurdles in the path of free culture (Doc)
• Volker Grassmuck - IP4D – Sustainable Production of and Fair Trade in Creative Expressions (PDF)
• James Grimmelmann (Doc)
• Antonio Lafuente, Andoni Alonso, Marcos García - A Lab Without Walls. A Proposal to Reshape a Policy for the Commons (PDF)
• Ronaldo Lemos - Brazil & the Internet: A Love/Hate Affair (PDF)
• Mayer Fuster Morell - Governance of online creation communities around the building of digital commons Provision of platforms of participation (Doc)
• Jhessica Reia - Alternative Licensing and the Free Culture Community in Sao Paulo (PDF)
• Wolf Richter - Creative Commons as a Social Enterprise (Doc)
• Nagla Rizk - Thoughts/Suggested Points of Departure (Doc)
• Yuri Takhteyev - The Source in Free Culture (PDF)
• Alek Tarkowski - The consequences of framing free culture as a social movement (PDF)
• Michell Thorne and Rachel Cobcroft - Capturing the Commons: (Ways Forward for) The CC Case Studies Initiative (PDF)
• Frank Tobia - A first-principles approach to free culture (Doc)
• Ariel Vercelli - Rethinking the intellectual common goods: tensions between appropriation and liberation of intellectual goods and works in the digital age (PDF)
• Jude Yew - ccMixter: A study of motivations and emergent creative practices that results from open sharing and remixing (PDF)
• Zac Zimmer - What We Talk About When We Talk About Commons (Doc)

Attendees

1. Name 1
2. Name 2

Logistical Information

• Location: Hauser Hall Room 104 (Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=N)
• Hotel Information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/wiki/Hotel_Information_and_Directions_to_HLS/Berkman
• Driving Directions: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/directions.php#Driving
• Subway Directions: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/directions.php#Subway
• Bus Directions: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/directions.php#Bus
• Wireless internet access will be available at the workshop
• Parking is not available through Harvard Law School, but there are several parking garages in Harvard Square
• Questions? Contact Amar Ashar at ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

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