COPYFIGHT brings together many of the main actors in the free culture movement. Lawyers, activists, artists and thinkers that express the need to rethink intellectual property and to provide new models for authorship.

The public square is the principal space for debate in COPYFIGHT. Discussions cover three different areas: written culture, musical culture, and digital culture.

Every day COPYFIGHT closes its program of talks with the presentation of representative projects in the field of free culture. These are initiatives going beyond the limits of the current model for intellectual property as they claim for its reform.

The open source software movement and the free distribution of cultural materials are making inroads into the world of institutions and businesses. Representatives of public administrations, universities and the media talk about how these organizations can benefit from alternative models for intellectual property.

21:00h SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Wikipedia was born in January of 2001 as a communitary effort to build a free and infinite digital encyclopaedia of human knowledge, covering all topics and open to be expanded, edited and used by anyone with Internet access. Wikipedia is built on a wiki publishing system, which allows Internet users to include their own definitions and articles on their pages under a GNU license. Nowadays it counts more than 500,000 articles, and grows simultaneously in more than 50 languages, including Catalan, Esperanto or Interlingua. Jimmy Wales is its founder and the director of the foundation that supervises this project.

PLAZA PUBLICA:SOFTWARE Y CULTURA DIGITAL

 

20:00h Keynote Speaker

Lyricist of the legendary Grateful Dead, rancher in Wyoming and even councilman for the Republican party, John Perry Barlow is one of the unavoidable intellectual referents of cyberculture. His classic “A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace” is a hymn to the autonomy of Internet as a space of freedom above national borders, while his article “Selling Wine Without Bottles on the Global Net: All You Know about Intellectual Property Is Wrong” is one of the foundational texts for the free culture movement. Barlow has been one the main actors behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the most important international organization defending the rights of Internet users.

17:30h Talks

Carlos Sánchez Almeida
The Commons: Internet, Popular Republic of Culture
www.republicainternet.com

Sergio Bollaín [Bordergames]
Videogames and Free Software: The Borderames Project
www.bordergames.org

Carlos Sánchez Almeida was the first lawyer in Spain to especialize in Internet law. He is an active militant in favor of the rights of Internet users, and one of the founders of the online magazine Kriptopolis.

Editor of Barrapunto, the famous weblog about free software, and member of Hispalinux, González-Barahona is one of the main personalities in the field of free software in Spain. In this presentation he explores how the models created by the free software movement are being imported frorm the world of culture.

Sergio has been involved in dozens of artistic projects, from Las Agencias in Barcelona to Pornolab in Madrid. He is an educator and a member of GNEIS, a cooperative of educative and environmentalist initiatives. His last project, Bordergames, is a videogame which takes place in the district of Lavapiés (Madrid) and has been built entirely out of free software.

Bram is behind Freesound, a project launched by the UPF of Barcelona that offers musicians a huge archive of sounds that they can freely use in their own creations. Everything can be downloaded, used and manipulated, thanks to a Creative Commons license.

12:00h FREE FORUM: FREE CULTURE IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS

José Cervera, internet and society, journalist
http://navegante2.elmundo.es/navegante/weblog.html

Ricardo Villa, 20 minutos.
http://www.20minutos.es