The Internet is a new platform for musicians, artists, visual artists and academics that is no longer defined only by traditional Intellectual Property rules and the limits of the material world. Technological developments have always influenced society and shaped the law. The complexity of traditional copyright law, an obstacle to the ideal of creative collaboration and free distribution, does not apply to the Internet, which has led to phenomena of piracy and general uncertainty about what is happening “out there”. The Open Source Movement, which is not related to software issues only, promotes the legality, openness, sharing and reuse of code, content, i.e. texts, music, films, information, data, files and knowledge and introduces us to a world that operates and acts on the basis of a different system of values.
The Copyright rule automatically gives the creator exclusive rights over the work such as reproduction, distribution and editing (change) otherwise “All rights reserved”. However, many creators do not realize that they are the only and first owners of their creation and what rights they have over it. What was missing was the legal, but also technological tool for the creator to be able to legally distribute his work as he chooses. This tool is the Creative Commons licenses.
Creative Commons licenses were first released in 2002 and are now the most widely used Open Licensing system. Licenses are standard legal contracts that creators essentially attach to their song, article, or any other type of content they want to publish, clearly authorizing its sharing with the label “some rights reserved.” Creative Commons offers the public a set of licenses to choose from, depending on the uses they want to allow on their content. All licenses require Attribution and further allow or prevent reproduction, commercial use, and adaptation. The main element of licenses is that they give the creator the power to decide how their work will be used.
The social and economic value of sharing content with Open Licenses is now a fact. In education, openly licensed content significantly reduces the cost compared to traditional educational textbooks. In science and medicine, Open Access to research can save lives and encourage efforts to solve hitherto unsolved problems. At the government and philanthropic level, where tax dollars and donations are earmarked for public benefit and projects for the public good, open licensing ensures that the results of these investments are freely available to the public and can be reused. On large websites, the integration of Creative Commons licenses gives everyone the opportunity to participate and collaborate in the creation of culture and civilization, to contribute to the improvement and further processing of educational materials, photos, music and films.
In Greece, the use of Creative Commons Licenses has been recognized by the Greek courts since 2007 at the initiative of the Open Source Software Society (OSOS)and has become widespread, from government level to Education and Culture. It is observed that the public's awareness of issues of Intellectual Property, Digitization and Distribution is lacking among the Greek public, but on the other hand there is great creativity and content production by Greek creators, artists, visual artists, etc.
open frown from Frown on Vimeo.
In this context, Creative Commons Greece, in collaboration with the Frown platform and with thesupport of the Greek Creative Commons Association, is organizing a two-day Festival on December 7 and 8 at FROWN (Ag. Eleousis 14 & Protogenous, Psirri, 213-0097547) with workshops, discussions and performances by Greek artists who in one way or another use Open Software, Open Licenses, Open Hardware and belong to the Open Software Movement.
We invite all creators and users to see:
What does Open Content mean?
how one can use Open Source Software to create, edit and curate audio, image, video
how one can protect their Intellectual Property the way they want and learn how to use Creative Commons licenses –
how can he distribute his work legally and securely through new media
to listen to and see Performances by artists who already use Open Software and Open Licenses!
The program in detail:
Saturday, December 7
Round Tables : These are about presenting open source software tools and exchanging knowledge and experiences in relation to them. The discussion will present their capabilities, as well as artistic projects created by these specific programs:
11.00- 12.00 Super Collider – Marinos Koutsomichalis
SuperCollider is a programming environment and language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
12.00- 13.00 Audacity – Marinos Koutsomichalis
Audacity is an open source digital audio recording and editing program.
13.00- 14.00 Pure Data – Alexandros Drymonitis
Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed for creating interactive audio/music and multimedia projects.
15.00- 17.00 Creative Commons Workshop – Maria Mertzani, Prodromos Tsiavos (in two parts)
Open Discussion/Workshop: "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age and Creative Commons Open Licenses" Lawyer Prodromos Tsiavos (EEL/LAK) and Maria Mertzani (Creative Commons Greece) will talk about Intellectual Property and its management in Greece in the digital and artistic world and will explain what Open Licensing is, why someone should choose Creative Commons licenses to share their work, how this type of Licensing is done easily and quickly and what business models arise from its use in the future.
15.00- 17.00 Screenings
Greek Creators Explain Why They Choose Creative Commons Licenses" (Technopolis 2012), films and documentaries from the Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival 2013, screenings on the use of licenses and speeches from Creative Commons Festivals worldwide.
19.00- 22.00 Sound Performances
19.00 Alexandros Drymonitis
Alexandros Drymonitis works with noise and feedback in various forms, exploring the limits of timbre and control. He uses open source tools and his work is freely available on the internet. www.drymonitis.me.
19.30 No God Ritual
No God Ritual has been active in the experimental music scene since the end of the last decade. He explores electronic composition using programming languages as his main medium. He is also a member of the groups “Rhombos” and “NullPointerConstant”. His work “Nuum” (Felt 009/Romvos 002) has just been released
https://soundcloud.com/nogodritual
20.00 Fruit5
Fruto5 is a group consisting of a number of people who work in a fruit shop. That is, they sit and look at the fruits, waiting for them to ripen.https://fruto5.blogspot.gr/
20.30 Zombie Penguin (without the Glory Holes)
The Zombie Penguin is a radioactively mutated, flightless, undead seabird (family Spheniscidae, genus Sphenisciformes) that lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
After a failed attempt to hypnotize humanity and save the planet, the Zombie Penguin creates a virus to free cyberspace from the scourge of copyright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPYnjd5jdg
21.00 Barbara's Straight Son
" A Memoir of Kilgore Trout" is a concept album about the work of author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). From ancient religions to time travel, from satire to science fiction, from drum 'n' bass to electro-punk and everything in between.
https://soundcloud.com/barbarasstraightson
21.30 Kid Flicks
His music is both inside and outside the boundaries of pop music. He uses guitars, bass, mandolin, synths, percussion, found sounds, effects, samples and his voice, in a way that sometimes makes it difficult to define.
https://soundcloud.com/kidflicks
Sunday, December 8th Program
Round Tables : These are about presenting open tools and exchanging knowledge and experiences in relation to them. The discussion will present their capabilities as well as artistic projects created by the specific programs.
11.00- 12.30 Arduino – Aphrodite Psarra
Arduino is a microcontroller that makes communication between physical objects and computers accessible. Its programming language is a simplification of C/C++ and facilitates the creation of electronic prototypes.
12.30- 14.00 Processing – Thodoris Papatheodorou
Processing is a programming language created by artists and is a creative programming tool. It is a simplification of Java that facilitates the programming of visual programs, and allows the creation of immediate graphical output.
15.00- 17.00 Creative Commons Workshop – Maria Mertzani, Prodromos Tsiavos (in two parts) Director Stathis Athanasiou participates
Open Discussion/Workshop: "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age and Creative Commons Open Licenses" Lawyer Prodromos Tsiavos (EEL/LAK) and Maria Mertzani (Creative Commons Greece) will talk about Intellectual Property and its management in Greece in the digital and artistic world and will explain what Open Licensing is, why someone should choose Creative Commons licenses to share their work, how this type of Licensing is done easily and quickly and what business models arise from its use in the future.
– The discussion will feature Stathis Athanasiou, director of Alpha, a completely independent, crowdfunded Greek film available under a Creative Commons license ( https://www.alpha-movie.com/ )
15.00- 17.00 Screenings
Short Films from the Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival 2013, stills from the film A (Alpha) and part of the documentaryby Elias Marmaras “»Common Knowledge: Communities of Knowledge Production in Greece “
19.00- 22.00 Sound Performances
19.00 Angelus of the Lord
Angelos Kyriou began recording on his own behalf in the middle of the last decade and continues to do so to this day, adding in recent years the word "sharing" and the addressangeloskyriou.blogspot.comat the end of each completed sentence.
19.30 Stratos Bihakis
Stratos Bihakis is one of the members of the electronic duo dot message. In his personal work he explores the margin between artistic expression and cognitive perception. He uses sound, light, free data and open source programs as raw materials and tools.
20.00 The Hydra
The Hydra is the leftfield sound project of Dimitris Papadatos. The experimental process covers a wide spectrum from techno music to kosmische and freeform noise to atonic composition.
https://soundcloud.com/thehydra1
20.30 Aphrodite Psarra
Afroditi Psarra is a visual artist who works with new technologies and sound through a DIY approach. Her sound performance Lilytronica is based on improvisation with four hand-made synthesizers and is a search for the juxtaposition between the fragile nature of electronic fabrics and the noisy soundscape that can be produced
afroditipsarra.com.
21.00 Balinese Beast
Balinese Beast (Georgos Axiotis and Ilan Manouah) seem to have set out to determine the shortest distance between silence and deafening noise, and vice versa. Armed with free jazz saxophones, homemade electronics, effects and samples, they create miniatures of feedback and wild, chaotic cut-ups that mix punk energy with improvisational practice, in a wandering at the ends of the sonic spectrum.
https://soundcloud.com/balinese-beast
Thursday, November 28, 2013 | CreativeCommons